Background
Barrett-Connor, Elizabeth Louise was born on April 8, 1935 in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
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Elizabeth Louise Barrett-Connor
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Bachelor, Mount Holyoke College, 1956; Doctor of Science (honorary), Mount Holyoke College, 1985; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1960; Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1996; Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Bergen, Norway, 1996.
Career
Instructor medicine, U. Miami, Florida, 1965-1968;
assistant professor medicine, U. Miami, Florida, 1968-1970;
assistant professor community and family medicine, University of California, San Diego, 1970-1974;
associate professor community and family medicine, University of California, San Diego, 1974-1981;
professor community and family medicine, University of California, San Diego, since 1981;
acting chair department community and family medicine, University of California, San Diego, 1981-1982;
department chairman family and preventative medicine, University of California, San Diego, 1982-1997. Member hospital infection control committee VA Medical Center, San Diego, 1971-1981. Kelly West Memorial lecturer American Diabetes Association, Indianapolis 1987.
Visiting professor.Royal Society Medicine, London, 1989. John Rankin lecturer University of Wisconsin, 1989. Don McLeod Memorial lecturer, Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, 1990.
Elizabeth Blackwelllectr., Rochester, Minnesota, 1991. Lila Wallace visiting professor New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York City, 1992. Donald P. Shiley visiting lecturer Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California, 1993.
Leonard M. Schuman lecturer University of Michigan, 1993. Distinguished visiting U. Western Australia, 1997. Distinguished lecturer geriatrics Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1998.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American College of Physicians (James D. Bruce Memorial award 1994), American Heart Association (chairman budget committee county on epidemiology 1987-1988, chairman county on epidemiology 1988-1989m Ancel Keys lecturer 1995, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor research award 1995, Merit award 1998), Royal Society Health, American College Preventive Medicine (Katharine Boucot Sturgis lecturer 1986, American College Nutrition, Royal Society Medicine. Member APHA (chairman epidemiology section 1989-1990, Wade Hampton Frost lecturer 1993), Association Teachers Preventive Medicine (board directors 1987-1992, Outstanding Educator award 1992), Institute Medicine, Society Epidemiological Research (president 1983, John Cassell Memorial lecturer 1997), Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
M. James D. Connor; 3 children.
