Background
Abel, Francis Lee was born on April 12, 1931 in Iowa City. Son of Earl Lester Abel.
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Francis Lee Abel
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Associate of Arts, Creston Junior College, 1950; Bachelor in Physics, U. Kansas, 1952; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology, University of Wisconsin, 1960.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral trainee, Wisconsin Heart Association United States Public Health Service, Madison, 1958-1960;
intern in pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, 1960-1961;
from assistant professor to professor department physiology School Medicine, Indiana U., Indianapolis, 1962-1975;
professor, department chairman physiology School Medicine, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1975-1998;
distinguished professor department pharmaceutical and physiology, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1998-1999;
interim dean School Medicine, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1976;
associate dean basic science affairs School Medicine, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1976-1978. Visiting professor department biomedical engineering University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1970. Visiting professor department kinesiology Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, B.C., Canada, 1982.
Vis.prof. department physiology U. Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1989-1990. Consultant Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, 1965-1968, Veterans Administration Hospital., Columbia, 1976-1980.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Cardiovascular section American Physiological Society. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life), American Physiological Society, American Heart Association, biomedical Engineering Society (senior), Shock Society (councillor 1980-1982).
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Married Evelyn Joyce Reischauer, September 11, 1954 (divorced March 1974). Children: Wanda, Donna, Carolyn. Married Anne Elizabeth Sutherland, June 9, 1974.
1 child, Jonathan.
