Draft:James E Bernstein

James E Bernstein was born March 23rd1939 NYC, at Sydenham Hospital. His father Martin Bernstein was a prominent musician and musicologist who played Double Bass in the New York Philharmonic and was a Professor of Music at NYU for over 25 years—his mother, Juliet Danziger Bernstein was a journalist.

Bernstein attended the first progressive schools in the United States. The Bank street School and the City and Country School through age 12. He then attended the traditional Riverdale Country School for Boys.

Education
He received a BS degree from Harvard College in 1960. He received an MD from the Cornell University Medical College in 1964. He completed an internal medicine internship at the 2nd Division at Bellevue Hospital in 1965, followed by two years residency in General Surgery under Dr.Richard Karl. He then moved to San Diego, completing his general and thoracic residency at the University Hospital of San Diego under Marshall Orloff in 1970.

Early Career
Selected to be the first USPHS Surgical Scholar in 1970, Bernstein was invited to join the Salk Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies by Jonas Salk, where he contributed to the first Study of Surgical Services in the United States (SOSUSS). He was a research associate and assistant to the President of the Salk Institute from 1971-1972. Bernstein declined the opportunity to become an academic surgeon and became the Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County 1972-1974.

Noteworthy contributions made during his time there included the passage of the first vapor recovery ordinance in the country, the introduction and passage of Public Law 96-641 in the US Congress regulating health facility building. Bernstein was one of the original founders of the First Women's Bank of California in 1974.

In 1974, Bernstein became the Deputy Director of the Georgetown University Health Policy Center, where he built a national network of State Department of Health correspondents and was invited by Governor Jimmy Carter to head up his health policy team during his presidential campaign in 1975-1976. Bernstein joined the National Heart Blood Lung Institute as a Special Assistant to the Director in 1976, where he focused on physician competence.

Later Career
Bernstein founded his first company, General Health, in 1976. It pioneered health risk appraisal and the corporate health promotion movement. General Health was an INC 500 company two years in a row. In 1988, Charter Medical acquired the company, returning investors five times their initial investment. Bernstein was a founding partner and Director of Age Wave 1980-84, a company that established itself as a principal source of intelligence and marketing to the 50+ population.

In 1989, Bernstein traveled to the then Soviet Union and founded, with a Russian partner, Pharmaservice, the first wholesale distribution company for pharmaceuticals in the Russian Federation. His Russian partner took the company illegally in 1991, but Bernstein returned all of the investors' money.

In 1990 Bernstein co-founded Informax, and served as its President. It became the world's largest bioinformatics company, having an IPO in 2000. (INMX NASDAQ).

From 2001 to 2011, Bernstein founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Noxilizer, which pioneered nitrogen dioxide gas as a room-temperature sterilization technology.

In 2012, Bernstein co-founded and has served as the Chairman and CEO of Eniware ,LLC. Eniware has developed a portable surgical instrument sterilizer that uses no electricity, heat, or water.

Music
Bernstein began learning to play the cello at age seven studying with Ruth McGregor and at the age of 12 Lilian Rehberg Goodman. He attended the Greenwood Music Camp in 1953,1954, and the National Music Camp, Interlochen, MI. He played in the Bach Society Orchestra at Harvard and took a Master Class and performed a concert with eight female voices and three cellos with Nadia Boulanger in 1958.

Personal Life
Marriages:

1964-1985: Liff Hansen

1987-2013: Jean Duff

2019-present Aidara Janulaityte

Children: Susanna Higginson, Rachel Prinz, Martin Bernstein, Sarah Flinn

Grandchildren: Lulu Higginson, Oliver Higginson, Olimpia Bernstein, Clara Bernstein, Fwaylin Flinn, Rowan Flinn