Dr. Rapaport received his medical degree in 1946 from the University of California, San Francisco, and spent most of his medical career at the same institution as a professor of medicine before retiring in 2001. He was also chief of cardiology and associate dean at San Francisco General Hospital. He authored more than 160 scientific articles and was an invited speaker at medical conferences and symposia throughout the world.
Dr. Rapaport was president of the association’s San Francisco Chapter in 1962-63 and the former California Affiliate in 1972-73. In 1977 he received the association’s highest volunteer honor, the Gold Heart Award. He also received the James B. Herrick Award of the Council on Clinical Cardiology in 1988.
A 2009 profile in Cardiology Today looked beyond Dr. Rapaport’s clinical accomplishments to focus on his impact as a teacher and mentor whose “lectures inspired a generation of medical students to go into cardiology.”
As an AHA volunteer, Dr. Rapaport will be remembered for outstanding service in several key leadership positions. But equally important was his day-to-day commitment – through more than half a century – to our mission through his participation in numerous committees, task forces and scientific statement writing groups.
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