Background
Francis, Charles K. was born on May 24, 1939 in Newark.
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Charles K. Francis
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Bachelor, Dartmouth College, 1961; Doctor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, 1965.
Career
Medical intern, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1965-1966;
medical resident, Boston City Hospital, Tufts U., 1969-1970;
clinical fellow cardiology, Tufts Circulation Laboratory, 1970-1971;
clinical and research fellow cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1971-1972;
senior medical resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1972-1973;
chief cardiac catheterization laboratory division cardiology, Martin Luther King Junior General Hospital, Los Angeles, 1973-1974;
chief cardiology division, Martin Luther King Junior General Hospital, Los Angeles, 1974-1977;
director cardiology division, Mount Sinai Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, 1977-1980;
associate director hypertension service, associate professor medicine, director cardiac catheterization laboratory, Yale Medical School, Hartford, Connecticut, 1980-1987;
director department medicine, Harlem Hospital Center, New York City, since 1987;
professor clinical medicine, Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, since 1987. Clinical instructor medicine School Medicine, Tufts U., 1970-1971. Teaching fellow Harvard Medical School, 1971-1972, clinical fellow, 1972-1973.
Assistant professor medicine Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School & School Medicine, University of Southern California, 1973-1977. Assistant professor medicine, director Burgdorf Hypertension Clinical, Medical School, U. Connecticut, 1977-1980. Member cardiac advisory community National Heart, Lung& Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1977-1979.
Assistant professor medicine School Medicine, Yale University, 1980-1981, associate professor, 1981-1987.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Cardiology. Member Institute Medicine-NAS, American Federation Clinical Research, American Heart Association, Association Black Cardiologists (Chairman of the Board since 1994).
