Background
Guiroy, Don Camance was born on April 22, 1952 in Basilan, Philippines. Son of Flaviano Kiamco Guiroy and Leoncia Awing Camance. came to the United States, 1985.
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Don Camance Guiroy
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Bachelor of Science, U. San Carlos, 1972; Doctor of Medicine, Southwestern U., Cebu City, Philippines, 1976; Master of Science, Hood College, 1991.
Career
Resident in pediatrics, Silliman U. Medical Center, Dumaguete City, Philippines, 1977-1979; fellow in neurology, U. Munich, 1979-1981; resident in psychiatry, Kreiskrankenhaus, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, 1982-1984; neurologist in postgraduate training, National Hospital Nervous Disease, London, 1984-1985; visiting research fellow, visiting research associate, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1985-1992; visiting research scientist, U. Dusseldorf, Germany, 1992-1993; psychiatrist, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, 1995-1996; psychiatrist, Stanford (California) U., since 1996. Clinical research physician Eli Lilly, Bad Hamburg, Germany, 1993-1994. Research.dir. Southwestern U., since 1995.
Achievements
Membership
Volunteer psychiatrist Franciscans, San Francisco, 1997. Member American Academy Psychiatry, New York Academy Science.
Interests
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Avocations: painting, cello, antique furniture restoration, tennis, gardening. Achievements include demonstration that brains of Guamanian patients with Parkinsonism-dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and neurologically normal Guamanians with neurofibrillary degeneration contain abnormal fibrils composed of protein similar to Alzheimer's Disease. Described the ultrastructural, biochemical and molecularcharacterization of prion in captive mule deer and elk with chronic wasting disease highly related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Connections
Married Bernadette Diekmann, May 30, 1981. 1 child, Ilang Mae.
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Religion
Roman Catholic