Steven Lehrer is a physician and writer, known for medical research and for his English translation of Else Ury.

Early years and education

Lehrer was born in Los Angeles. He attended

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

and graduated from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

and

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with the Johns Hopkins Hospi ...

Career

After training and specialty board certification, Lehrer worked as a

radiologist Radiology ( ) is the medical discipline that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiat ...

radiation oncologist A radiation oncologist is a specialist physician who uses ionizing radiation (such as megavoltage X-rays or radionuclides) in the treatment of cancer. Radiation oncology is one of the three primary specialties, the other two being surgical and ...

, and

nuclear medicine Nuclear medicine or nucleology is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear imaging, in a sense, is " radiology done inside out" because it records radiation emi ...

physician.

Medical research

Lehrer has published on the topics of breast cancer and the estrogen receptor, prostate cancer,

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and pregnancy. He published two medical textbooks, '' Understanding Lung Sounds'' and '' Understanding Pediatric Heart Sounds''.

Writer

Lehrer published the first English translation of the most popular book of German children's writer Else Ury, ''Nesthäkchen and the World War''. He has published plays, a novel, books on German history, the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

, and the history of medicine. He edited a collection of the stories of Frank Buck and published English translations of ''Tanks Break Through!'' by

Alfred-Ingemar Berndt Alfred-Ingemar Berndt (22 April 1905 – 28 March 1945) was a German Nazi journalist, writer and close collaborator of Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Berndt joined the Nazi Party at the age of 18 and becam ...

and ''From Lemberg to Bordeaux'' by

Leo Leixner Leo Leixner (1908–1942) was an Austrian journalist and war correspondent. He is known for his boo''From Lemberg to Bordeaux'' a first-hand account of war in Poland, the Low Countries, and France, 1939–40, during World War II. Early life and e ...

. Lehrer was interviewed on the History Channel series ''Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine'' about his book ''Explorers of the Body'', as well as by the BBC for their series, ''Medical Mavericks, Beating Infection'' (episode 4).Medical Mavericks (2005) on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lehrer, Steven American nuclear medicine physicians Writers from Los Angeles American male writers Living people Johns Hopkins University alumni Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni American radiologists Year of birth missing (living people) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty