His family emigrated to Canada in 1905. Kaufman received his M.D. from McGil University in 1925. After an internship at Manhattan State Hospital, he decided to study neurology, training at Montefiore Hospital from 1926-1927. He served on the faculties of theHarvard School of Medicine, the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and the Mount Sinai School ofMedicine. He continued his training at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital before lea- ving for Vienna in 1929, where he studied at the University ofVienna Anatomy and Psychiatric Institutes and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. His personal analysis was begun with Dr. Paul Schilder and finished with Dr. Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Kaufman was a founding member of BPSI, serving as president from 1937-1939 and as chair- man of the educational committee from 1934-1942. He volunteered for the US Army during World War I and was awarded two Bronze Stars. After his service with the Sixth Army in the Philippines Dr. Kaufman was appointed director of the depart- ment of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, a post he held until his retirement in 1971. He also served as president of the American Psychoanalytic Asso- ciation from 1949-1951. Under his direction, Mount Sinai's department of psychiatry was broadened to include child guidance, a speech clinic, psychiatric ward and adult outpatient clinic, and the cooperative training of social workers.