Background
Worden, Frederic Garfield was born on March 22, 1918 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Vivien S. and Alice Garfield (Davis) Worden.
Worden, Frederic Garfield was born on March 22, 1918 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Vivien S. and Alice Garfield (Davis) Worden.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1939; Doctor of Medicine University of Chicago, 1942.
Intern, Osler Medical Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1942-1943;
house officer, Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, 1943;
house officer to chief resident, Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, 1946-1950;
assistant in psychiatry, Commonwealth Foundation fellow, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1946-1948;
instructor psychiatry, 1949-1952;
training, Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute, 1947-1953;
clinical director, Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland., 1950-1952;
supervisor therapy, Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, 1952-1953;
research psychiatrist, professor psychiatry, Medical School, University of California at Los Angeles, 1953-1969;
head division adult psychiatry, Medical School, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968-1969;
professor psychiatry, director Neuroscience research program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969-1983;
professor emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983-1995. Member research scientist development review committee National Institute of Mental Health, 1971-1974, member board sci.counselors, 1975-1978. Member commission on brain science National Research Council, 1971-1974.
Board of directors Founds. Fund for Research in Psychiatry, 1973-1976. Board overseers Dartmouth Medical School, 1979-1995.
Member National Advisory Mental Health Council, 1980-1983.
Served to major Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Psychiatric Association (chairman task force on research training council on medical education and development), Society for Neurosci.
(chairman program committee 1972), Acoustical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychoanalytic Association, University of California at Los Angeles Brain Research Institute, Psychiatric Research Society, New York Academy of Sciences Clubs: St. Botolph (Boston).
Son of and Alice Garfield (Davis) W. Married Katharine Cole, January 8, 1944. Children: Frederic, Dwight, Philip, Barbara, Katharine.