Gaston Eugene Blom

Background

Blom, Gaston Eugene was born on March 29, 1920 in Brooklyn.

Education

Bachelor summa cum laude, Colgate University, 1941. Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard University, 1944.

Career

Intern, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1944-1945; resident in general psychiatry, United States Public Health Service Hospital, Fort Worth, 1946-1947; resident in general psychiatry, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, 1947-1948; resident in child psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1948-1949; resident in child psychiatry, Judge Baker Guidance Center, Boston, 1949-1950; member of staff, assistant director, then director child psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1950-1958; adult analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, 1956; child analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, 1958; assistant instructor in psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1951-1958; faculty, Smith College School Social Work, Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1955-1957; associate professor to professor department psychiatry, child psychiatry, U. Colorado Medical School, Denver, 1958-1975; training & supervisory analyst, Denver Psychoanalytic Institute, U. Colorado Medical School, 1964-1975; professor education division special education, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1966-1975; professor psychiatry & counseling educational psychology-special education, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, 1975-1984; staff psychiatrist, South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, 1984-1991; medical staff, Charles River Hospital, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1984-1989; professor child development & child psychiatry, Boston University Medical School, since 1985; medical staff, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Brighton, Massachusetts, since 1991; medical director, Boston Childrens Superior vena cava syndrome Association, 1991-1995; analytic supervisor, Massachusetts Institute Psychoanalysis, since 1994; consultant, Massachusetts Families for Kids, Brookline, since 1995. Lecturer Denver U. School Social Work, 1962-1966. Adjunct Professor psychology Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1980-1984.

Visiting professor education Boston University, 1967. Consultant mental health study section, division research grants National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1960-1964. Acting department chairman psychiatry U. Colorado Medical School, Denver, 1969-1970, faculty county, 1970-1972.

Visiting staff psychiatrist Gentofte Hospital, U. Copenhagen, 1972-1973. Senior research associate U. Center International Rehabilitation, Michigan State University, 1979-1984. Consultant Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, since 1997.

Achievements

• Gaston Eugene Blom has been listed as a noteworthy psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Colorado Governor's Advisory Committee on Mental Health, Denver, 1966-1971. Mentalhealth county West Interstate Committee on Higher Education, Boulder, 1971-1975. Board directors Michigan Partners of Americas, Lansing, 1979-1981.

Member special education advanced.com. Michigan Department Education, Lansing, 1981-1984. Member advisor, board directors Free Romania Foundation, 1990-1993.

Member standing committee 1st and 2d Unitarian Church Boston, 1991-1993. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1956. Assistant surgeon UPSHS, 1946-1947.

Fellow American Orthopsychiat. Association, American Psychiatric Association (life), American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (life, editorial board 1971-1977), American Academy Psychoanalysis. Member Society for Research in Child Development, American Association Psychiatric Superior vena cava syndrome for Children, Massachusetts Medical Society, Massachusetts Psychiatric Association, New England Council Child and Adolscent Psychiatry (board directors), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa.

Interests

• Avocations: travel, tennis, sailing, reading, music.

Connections

Son of Gaston Emanuel and Gunda (Engebretsen) B. Dorothy Ruth Engstrand. Children: Susan, Barbara, David, Douglas.

Father:

Gaston Emanuel Blom

Mother:

Gunda (Engebretsen) Blom

child:

Susan Blom

child:

David Blom

child:

Douglas Blom

child:

Barbara Blom