Achievements and Notable positions

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In 1943, Chester M. Southam and J. Ehrlich coined the term “hormesis” in the journal Phytopathology, volume 33, pp. 517-541. Southam later become an intern at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York City in 1947. He continued his intern position until the following year when he was promoted from clinical fellow to attending physician at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer, New York City, and also received a promotion from research fellow to full member at the Chief Division Virology/Immunology at the Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, New York City. Then in 1951, Southam was promoted from instructor to associate professor of medicine at the Cornell University Medical Center, New York City. Southam was later elected president of the American Cancer Society. In the year 1971, Southam left his positions at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer, the Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, and the Cornell University Medical Center, becoming an attending physician in the Department of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the Head of the Division of Medical Oncology, and a professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College; he held these positions until the end of his career in 1979.