Biography

Heritage & Family Origins

The family's written history begins in 1482. Before that date there is no record so how far it goes back no one knows. For centuries, his family has produced doctors, lawyers, rabbis and businessmen. His parents were forcibly and traumatically separated from their parents when they were less than ten years old. They did not discover that our large family of grandparents, aunts and uncles were murdered by Nazi Death Squads (Einsatzgruppen) in 1939 in Eastern Poland until ten years after the war was over, never to see their family members again. The excruciatingly nightmarish specter of family separation and graphically realistic fear of genocide remain with his family to this day.

Their personally told story is to be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5i4iwdBpL8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FVp3C5lCQ The purpose of their heartfelt testimony is to document that the use of the legal system's industrial power to enforce separation of parents from their children invariably has deadly consequences and to ensure that this outrage will never happen again Dr. Schor was rescued from a displaced person's camp in Linz Austria in 1955 by family members already in the USA. His father was unable to be present at his birth. The characters of courage, defiance, bravery, ambition and intelligence were placed in his fiber by his Holocaust Survivor parents. These traits were reinforced as he was mentored in a tight knit community of Holocaust Survivors and Rabbis.

His parents brought him past the Statue of Liberty at the age of eight months. They were in their mid thirties, had not finished grade school, could not speak English, grew up without parents, and had no trade skills. By virtue of emotional and intellectual toughness, by appreciation of the opportunity the USA gave them, they taught themselves English, became USA citizens and built a solid life in the suburb of West Hartford CT as the builders and owners of the well respected Hartford Kosher Caterers. Dr. Schor spent many long weekends in synagogues while assisting his father with weddings and bar mitzvah as he learned the family business. His parents, placing the very highest value on self reliance and education, started him in Hebrew School and Bible Study at the age of four, eventually sending all three children to the best private universities, raising a computer engineer, attorney and physician.

Dr. Schor earned the Eagle Scout Award with Bronze Palm, was awarded the Scouts prestigious Order of the Arrow and served as Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 90 in the Charter Oak Boy Scout Council. At age 17 he served as lifeguard and swimming instructor during the day and operated a catering service in the evening at the kosher Grand Lake Lodge Resort in Lebanon, CT.

Attending evening classes at the Connecticut School of Medicine, he earned his first license to practice medicine as an Emergency Medical Technician in 1972, He worked full time as an EMT while a senior in high school and made his summers count toward learning medicine by working as an EMT during vacations.

As a student researcher at the Connecticut School of Medicine, he was one of the authors of "Chemoimmunotherapy of a Murine Fibrosarcoma: Critical Factors for Success of Combined Modality Therapy" published in the Journal of Surgical Oncology in 1977.

University Studies and Research

Dr. Schor entered Boston College to study Philosophy. He focused on the branch of philosophy known as ethics; the study of how members of a society should relate to each other in a just world. He presented three Bioethics papers at the Undergraduate Conference on Bioethics at the University of Massachusetts. The topics were "The Prolongation of Life and Euthanasia", "Who Should Decide Medical Moral Problems" and "Care of the Terminally Ill".

In addition to a full load of Philosophy classes, Dr. Schor completed all the academic and laboratory classes required to major in Chemistry and Biology. His academic record documents that he shined in 54 courses, earning an above average grade in each one. This course work qualified Dr. Schor to be one of the few Boston College alumni to earn a triple major, again graduating Magna Cum Laude. At BC his peers recognized his leadership and organizational skills by electing him President of the Premedical Club. He is a founding member of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the Premedical Honor Society.

At BC he was one of 16 out of 1001 students selected for the Scholar of The College Award by completing the research project: "Inorganic Synthetic Oxygen Carriers to Test the Entatic State Hypothesis" For his Junior's Honors thesis he explored his immigration roots by presenting a paper on "Boston's Immigrants"

He was hired as a chemistry instructor at Brandeis University and earned his Masters Degree in Chemistry in 1979 by completing the research project : "Kinetics of Acetylcholinesterase for a Series of Amines and Amides" and passing a French Language examination.

Medical Training & Military Service

In medical university, he earned the highest grade of "P" in all 40 academic courses and clinical electives. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at St. Louis University in 1983 before completing his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Tufts University in 1986, augmenting his experience with clinical rotations at Brown, Yale and St. Louis Universities.

He earned his Federal Drug Enforcement Administration License in 1983, He was licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts from 1983 to 1996.

Before entering practice, he augmented his education in the Baylor College of Medicine Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program in 1987.

While studying to become a physician, he thanked his country for making him a citizen by winning a commission as a US Army Officer serving in the United States Army Medical Service Corps from 1979 through 1986. He was awarded a citation for service in the Cold War

Medical Career and Professional Leadership

In 1988 he established a private practice of Internal Medicine in Palm Beach County FL.

He has served on the staff of eight hospitals. His peers elected him to Chairmanship of Medicine at JFK Medical Center.

Demonstrating continued dedication to the study, practice,and advancement of Medicine, the doctor attained Board Certification in Internal Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in 1995. He studied for the voluntary accomplishment of becoming recertified in 2005. He was recognized by his peers as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in 1999. Dr. Schor served the State of Florida as a Special Expert Witness for the Agency for Health Care Administration for 13 years. Enhancing the standard license, Florida has authorized him to be a Controlled Substance Prescriber and a Cannabis Prescriber and has authorized him to dispense medications. Further enhancement is to serve as a Medical Review Officer. He has completed more than 900 hours of Continuing Medical Education and has attended and presented at Local and National Medical Conferences.

Dr. Schor has won awards from the American College of Physicians for community speaking on wellness topics. He has served his community as a Leader of Cub Scout pack 118 and Boy Scout Troop 118 including Medicine and Chess Merit Badge counselor.

He has authored Letters to the Editor of the Palm Beach Post. Dr. Schor has been an active member of the Beth Torah Synagogue in Wellington, Fl.