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Worthy of Note
Dr. Helfand Honored with Marquis Who's Who Albert
Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
Marquis Who's Who, a publisher of
biographical profiles, presented APMA
Past President Arthur E. Helfand, DPM,
with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime
Achievement Award. His accomplished
career in podiatric medicine began in
1957.
Dr. Helfand spent 45 years in private
practice in Philadelphia. He was associated
with James C. Giuffre Medical
Center, where he served as co-chief and
chief of the Podiatry department between 1958 and 1989. He
was active as the medical center's director of podiatric education
for 21 years.
As an expert in public health and aging, Dr. Helfand
served as a consultant on behalf of the US Department of
Veterans Affairs, Temple University Children's Hospital,
and the Philadelphia VA Hospital's department of Surgery.
He is an honorary staff member at Temple University
Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in
Philadelphia. Dr. Helfand worked previously as an affiliate
staff member at Joslin Center for Diabetes PC and Wills
and Jefferson in Philadelphia.
In academia, Dr. Helfand served as director of clinical research,
professor of podiatric medicine, coordinator of clinics,
chair of the department of Community Health and Aging,
and professor of podiatric medicine and podiatric orthopedics
at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine until
2002, later becoming a professor emeritus. He was instrumental
at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia as an adjunct
professor of orthopedic surgery and a visiting associate
professor of community health and preventive medicine. He
has served as an adjunct professor of medicine at Temple
University since 2003.
Dr. Helfand served as a board member, chair, and treasurer
of the Pennsylvania Diabetes Academy. Since 2019, he
has been a board member emeritus with the Philadelphia
Corporation for Aging and was a founding board member
and vice chair of the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging
Care Connections.
Dr. Helfand is a diplomate of the American Board of
Podiatric Orthopedics, the American Board of Podiatric
Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine, and the
American Board of Podiatric Public Health. He has
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contributed to 10 textbooks and has written various chapters
in other books and journal articles.
Dr. Helfand is a fellow of the American College of
Physicians, the Royal Society of Health, and the Pennsylvania
Public Health Association, an emeritus fellow of the American
Geriatrics Society, and he is associated with the Task Force on
Aging of the American Public Health Association. He has
been involved with the AMA, the International Academy of
Preventive Medicine, and the Gerontological Society.
Dr. Helfand received an APMA Distinguished Service
Award in 1984. He was presented with a Lifetime
Achievement Award by Podiatry Management in 1991 and a
Bright Star Aging Award from the Philadelphia Emergency
Fund in 2015. He has been featured in close to 40 editions
of Who's Who publications. n
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