Hans Einstein

Hans E Einstein (born February 3 1923) is the foremost authority on the lung disease Valley Fever. He currently resides in Bakersfield, California, USA. He is related to Albert Einstein: Hans's grandfather and Albert were first cousins.

Biography
Einstein was born in Berlin and spent his childhood in Germany as Nazism gradually took hold. His parents were Quakers, but of Jewish origin. A year after Hitler took power in 1934, his mother moved him and his sister to the Netherlands, leaving his father behind. He finished high school in the Netherlands at age 16 and moved to the United States as an exchange student. He attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. One of the first things he did upon arriving was look up his last name in the phone book. The only Einstein he found was a relative: Albert Einstein's son, Hans Albert Einstein. They became friends and was often invited over whenever Albert visited. When Hans graduated in 1943, he became a medical officer in the US Army and helped with the Berlin Airlift. He earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1946 and did his internship at Paterson General Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey. In 1951 he left the New York National Guard and drove across the United States to Kern General Hospital in Bakersfield, California. After finishing his residency there, Einstein became the assistant medical director of the Kern County tuberculosis sanitarium in Keene. Once there, he realized that some patients had Valley Fever rather than tuberculosis.

Hospital appointments

 * Clinician, Tuberculosis Clinic, Kern County Health Department (since 1988)
 * Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA (since 1953, Chief of Medical Service 1958-1961)
 * Mercy Hospital, Bakersfield, CA (since 1988)
 * LAC/USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (since 1962)
 * The Hospital of the Good Samaritan, Los Angeles, CA (since 1978)
 * Barlow Respiratory Hospital, Los Angeles, CA (since 1970)

Academic appointments

 * Medical Director, Division of Repiratory Care, San Joaquin Valley College (since 1991)