[1] He is also credited with a number of medical inventions, including a flexible filter for dissolving blood clots, and innovations that streamlined patient care and records holding.
[2] He was the son of working-class Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, and the older brother of the writer, playwright, and director Barney Simon.
In 1949, together with his wife Josephine, they moved to London, where he received his training in Radiology and imaging at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
[1] In 1958, he was recruited by Felix Fleischner to become Assistant in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, where he remained for the rest of his life.
[2] Following his long teaching career at Harvard Medical School, Simon retired as Professor of Radiology Emeritus in 1997.
[1] Simon is also credited for developing a number of other technical innovations, including a second blood filter that is meant to be removable, a needle used in biopsies, and a system designed to semi-automatically dispense specific doses of multiple medications to patients, in particular elderly ones.