Eljorn Don Nelson

Background

Nelson, Eljorn Don was born on September 29, 1946 in Minot, North Dakota, United States. Son of Orton Nelson and Doris M. (Olson) Lundgren.

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, 1970.

Career

Instructor, University of Minnesota College Medicine, Minneapolis, 1970-1972; instructor, U. Cincinnati College Medicine, 1972-1975; from assistant professor to associate professor, U. Cincinnati College Medicine, 1975-1992; professor, U. Cincinnati College Medicine, since 1992. Career teacher addictions National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, since 1977. Peer review consultant SAMSHA, Bethesda, since 1990.

Associate director Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center, since 1972. Visiting professor United States Agency for International Development, Washington, 1993.

Achievements

• Eljorn Don Nelson has been listed as a noteworthy Clinical pharmacology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Ohio Governor's Council on Impaired Driving, since 1993, Mental Health Association, Cincinnati, 1976-1987. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (commission on substance abuse), American Medical Educators and Researchers in Substance Abuse, Rho Chi.

Interests

• Avocations: scuba diving, instrument rated pilot.

Connections

Married Tesa Susette, June 24, 1967 (divorced February 1979). Children: Lisa Dawn, Eric Scott. Married Julia S. Sawyer, January 5, 1980.

Father:

Orton Nelson Lundgren

Mother:

Doris M. (Olson) Lundgren

Spouse:

Julia S. Sawyer

Spouse:

Tesa Susette

child:

Eric Scott Nelson

child:

Lisa Dawn Nelson