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Raphael Hirsch was born in Chicago.  He was educated at Northwestern University and The University of Illinois Medical School, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute.  He has practiced medicine for twenty-five years and is the author of over eighty articles in medical journals.  He is presently Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh where he leads a national gene therapy research program.