Background
Lucas, Alexander Ralph was born on July 30, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Eugene Hans and Margaret Ann (Weiss) Lucas. came to the United States, 1940, naturalized, 1945.
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Alexander Ralph Lucas
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Bachelor of Science, Michigan State University, 1953; Doctor of Medicine University of Michigan, 1957.
Career
Intern, University of Michigan Hospital, 1957-1958; resident in child psychiatry, Hawthorn Center, Northville, Michigan, 1958-1959, 61-62; staff psychiatrist, Hawthorn Center, Northville, Michigan, 1963-1965; senior psychiatrist, Hawthorn Center, Northville, Michigan, 1965-1967; resident in psychiatry, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, 1959-1961; research child psychiatrist, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, 1967-1971; research coordinator, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, 1969-1971; assistant professor psychiatry, Wayne State University, 1967-1969; associate professor, Wayne State University, 1969-1971; consultant child and adolescent psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, since 1971; associate professor, Mayo Med School, 1973-1976; professor, Mayo Med School, 1976-1997; emeritus professor, since 1998; head section child and adolescent psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1971-1980. Director commission on certification in child and adolescent psychiatry American Bd.Psychiatry and Neurology, since 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (life, editorial board journal 1976-1982), American Orthopsychiat. Association (life), American Psychiatric Association (life). Member Minnesota Society Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (president 1993-1995), Society professors Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Margaret Alice Thompson, July 6, 1956. Children: Thomas Alexander, Nancy Elizabeth Watson, Alexander Eugene, Peter Clayton.
