[5] It has been speculated that he changed his surname from "Levy" to "Rytand" due to discriminatory Jewish quotas that were in effect for many American universities' admission processes.
Henri Levy's grandfather Solomon Isaac Rechtandt immigrated from Poland to San Francisco.
[3] After finishing medical school, Rytand remained at Stanford's department of medicine to complete an internship and residency.
He spent the 1930s and 1940s teaching and being a clinical consultant with an emphasis on internal medicine, particularly the physiology of the kidney.
[4] The Rytand murmur, or la maladie de Rytand, is a heart condition he described in 1946 from individuals with late diastolic heart murmurs correlated with calcification of the mitral annulus and atrioventricular block.
[7] In 1984, he received one of the Stanford Medical School's highest honors, the Albion Walter Hewlett Award.