Charles M. Poser

Charles M. Poser
Personal details
Born	30 December 1923 Antwerp
Died	11 November 2010 Boston, Massachusetts
Nativity	Belgium
Religion	Jewish
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	12110466
Rank	Private
Camp Ritchie	Class 19 (16 May – 13 July 1944)
Section	7A
Enlisted	New York City, New York

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Charles Marcel Poser (1923–2010) was an American neurologist. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE).

Biography

Charles Marcel Poser (1923–2010) was an American neurologist. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE).

Poser was born on December 30, 1923, in Antwerp, Belgium. He died on November 11, 2010, in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

His parents, fearing the outbreak of World War II, tried to move to the United States. And assigned to Army military intelligence due to his ability to speak French, Dutch, and German. Poser was stationed in Bastogne, when it was surrounded by German troops, during the Battle of the Bulge. He was present during the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

After the war, he finished his degree at CCNY, and earned a medical degree at the Columbia Medical School. After earning his medical degree, he was a resident in Neurology at the New York Neurological Institute of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, where he worked under H. Houston Merritt.

He studied at the Institute Bunge, in Antwerp, in 1955, after earning a Fulbright Scholarship, where he studied under Ludo van Bogaert. According to a profile of Poser by the FRCPE, he credited his two mentors, Merritt and Bogaert, with inspiring the research that made him famous.

Upon his return to America, Poser first joined the faculty at the University of Kansas. He would later teach at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. In 1969 he moved to the University of Vermont as chair of the Department of Neurology. In 1982 he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was associated with Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Veterans Administration Hospital.

Poser's particular interest was diseases of the myelin. His major scientific accomplishment was "the first definitive system for measuring and describing MS", the Poser criteria unveiled in 1983.

Research notes

• Also Class 21 GerOB
• OB 28

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	87
Nara ASN	12110466
Nara Name	POSER CHARLES M
Nara State	23
Nara County	61
Nara POE	2364
Nara DOE	11042
Nara Grade Alpha	PVT
Nara Grade Code	8
Nara Branch Code	0
Branch	Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Nara Term or Enlistment	0
Term of enlistment	Unknown
Defer. Date	3
Nara Source	0
Nara Nativity	L7
Nara Year of Birth	23
Nara Race	1
Nara Race Description	White citizen
Nara Education	5
Nara Civilian Occupation	992
Nara Marital Status	6
Nara Height (inches)	68
Nara Weight (lbs)	159
Class_ASN	12110466
Class_Name	POSER, Charles M.
match_method	asn_exact_name_exact
row_source	both

Sources

• Wikipedia: Charles Poser
• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)