Gordon Lee Fain

Background

Fain, Gordon Lee was born on November 24, 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Robert Forbes and Margaret (Smith) Fain.

Education

Student, University Chicago, 1964-1965; Bachelor in Biology, Stanford University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, 1973.

Career

National Institutes of Health predoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1968-1973; National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow Biological laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1974; Grass fellow, Marine Biological laboratories, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1974; exchange fellow, Harvard University Medical school and Institute National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medical, Laboratory de Neurobiologie, Paris, 1974-1975; assistant professor ophthalmology, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1975-1978; associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1978-1982; professor ophthalmology, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1982-1994; associate director, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1985-1994; professor physiological science, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, since 1991; vice department chairman, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1991-1994. Speaker in field.

Achievements

• Gordon Lee Fain has been listed as a noteworthy Physiology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Biophysics Society, Society.Neurosci., American Physiological Society, English Physiological Society (foreign member), Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Margery Jones, June 22, 1968. 2 children.

Father:

Robert Forbes Fain

Mother:

Margaret (Smith) Fain

Spouse:

Margery Jones