Frank
Oski, born in 1932, is a graduate of
Swarthmore College and received his M.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1958.
He served his internship and Pediatric residency at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania and then studied hematology
as a Fellow at Harvard at the Boston Children's Hospital.
He was appointed as an Associate in the Department of Pediatrics,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1963 and assumed
the post of Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics,
State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, 1972.
In
1985 he assumed the position of Director, Department of Pediatrics,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief,
the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.