Half Way Up the Pyramid

About the Book

This book is an autobiography of a Professor Emeritus who came to the States at age 9 speaking two words of English, yes and no. It describes how a person from a nonacademic background gets into a career of biomedical science; the rewards and frustrations of such a career. Many of the rewards and frustrations were unanticipated. It tells us how his life was fulfilled also by things other than his work.

About the Author

Ernie Hausmann is eighty years old. For thirty seven years until age sixty seven he was a Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo where his main focus was on bone loss around teeth associated with periodontal disease. Since then he worked part time with a research team studying the association of bone loss around teeth with osteoporosis. For the past two years he has been Chief Scientific Advisor to a start-up company developing a marketable product; an automated measuring system of bone loss around individual teeth using digitized dental x-rays.