Olga Maria Von Tauber (April 12, 1907 – 2002) was a psychiatrist and philanthropist, who served in the hospitals of Long Island, New York, United States.
Olga Von Tauber was born to Edward (father) and Anna Fletcher Beck (mother) in Vienna, Austria, on April 12, 1907.
[1] On December 14, 1931, she married Robert Frank Von Tauber, Ph.D., who was a chemist and later served as United States’ Consul General of Haiti.
Von Tauber had been serving in Kings Park State Hospital in various positions, initially as supervising psychiatrist,[3] then promoted from assistant to associate director in 1967.
[10] This bequest is an initial partial distribution of the total pledge of approximately $350,000 being made to the NHCF to be used solely and exclusively to improve the department of psychiatry programs.
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine also received a bequest of $254,000 from the Robert and Olga Von Tauber Foundation to enhance education of residents and fellows.
[14] The institute has recently presented its second annual award to Professor Dinesh Bhugra, in recognition of his outstanding service and accomplishments in world psychiatry.