His father, an ophthalmologist, is a founding partner in Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons in Connecticut.
Francis was appointed to the staff of Bellevue Hospital (1874), and to the chair of pathology and practice of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1875-82).
Dr. Pappenheimer was born in Cedarhurst, L.I., the son of a distinguished pathologist at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He also lectured in Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1872 where he taught chemistry and medical jurisprudence and called for a more rigorous scientific training for medical professionals.
He became an assistant (1879) and was professor of pathology (1892-1909) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
It originated in Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1993 and involves a formal "robing" or "cloaking" in white lab coats.
He was chosen professor of chemistry in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1825, and continued as such until his death.
He was appointed consulting surgeon to the New York hospital, and emeritus professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which he was made president in 1841.
In 1941, they moved to New York, where she held a position as an associate in neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
His first work as a teacher was lecturer and demonstrator of anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York in 1848.