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Dawson, Chandler Robert was born on August 24, 1930 in Denver, Colorado, United States.
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Chandler Robert Dawson
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Chandler Robert Dawson, American Ophthalmologist, educator. Achievements include research in epidemiology of infectious eye diseasesand cataracts; prevention of blindness; pathogenesis of virus diseases of the eyes; electron microscopy of eye diseases; clinical trials of treatment for trachoma and for herpes simplex eye infections. Recipient Knapp award American Medical Association, 1967, 69, Medaille Trachome, 1978.
Education
AB, Princeton University, 1952; Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, 1956.
Career
United States Public Health Service epidemiologist, Communicable Disease Center, 1957-1960; resident department ophthalmology, School Medicine University of California, San Francisco, 1960-1963; assistant clinical professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1963-1966; assistant professor in residence, University of California, San Francisco, 1966-1969; associate professor opthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, 1969-1975; professor ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, 1975-1997; professor emeritus, University of California, San Francisco associate director Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, 1970-1984; director, University of California, San Francisco, 1984-1995. Fellow Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, 1963-1964. Co-director World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Trachoma and other ChlamydialInfections, 1970-1979, director Collaborating Center for Prevention of Blindness and Trachoma, since 1979.
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Membership
Member American Society Microbiology, American Academy Ophthalmology, Association Research Vision & Ophthalmology.
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Married; 3 children.
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American