Background
Sooy, Francis Adrian was born on July 1, 1915 in Coalinga, California, United States. Son of Francis Adrian and Mabel Maleta (Boone).
Sooy, Francis Adrian was born on July 1, 1915 in Coalinga, California, United States. Son of Francis Adrian and Mabel Maleta (Boone).
Bachelor, University California, Berkeley, 1937. Doctor of Medicine, University California, San Francisco, 1941. Postdoctoral training surgery and otolaryngology, University California, San Francisco, 1941—1942.
Postdoctoral training otolaryngology, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, 1944.
Member faculty University California School Medicine, San Francisco, 1946-1986, professor otolarynology, 1961-1986, director audiology and speech clinic, 1953-1972, chairman division otolaryngology, 1958-1967, chairman department otological, 1967-1972, chairman academy council, chairman academy assembly, 1969-1970, University chancellor, 1972-1982. Member otolaryngology training grant committee National Institutes of Health, 1959-1963, national advisory council neurological diseases and blindness, 1964-1968. Board directors American Council Otolaryngology.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Member American Academy Ophthalmology and Otalaryngology, American Laryngol. Association, American Laryngol., Rhinological and Otological Society (president elect 1977), American Otological Society (president 1984), Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society (executive secretary-treasurer 1968-1986 ), Collegium Otolaryngology Amicitiae Sacrum (president 1980), Otosclerosis Study Group (president 1985).
Son of; married Elizabeth Dean Thompson, April 17, 1944. Children: Charles Daniel, Jane Anne, Elizabeth Dean, Frances McAllister, Adrian Thompson.