Background
Gwaltney, Jack Merrit was born on December 24, 1930 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Jack Merrit and Mary Gordon (Weck) Gwaltney.
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Jack Merrit Gwaltney
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Bachelor, University of Virginia, 1952; Doctor of Medicine, University of Virginia, 1956.
Career
Rotating intern, University Hospitals, Cleveland, 1956-1957;
resident in internal medicine, University Hospitals, Cleveland, 1957-1959;
chief resident internal medicine, University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, 1959-1960;
assistant respiratory virus research, University of Virginia School Medicine, Charlottesville, 1962-1963;
National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health research postdoctoral fellow preventive medicine and medicine, University of Virginia School Medicine, 1963-1964;
instructor preventive medicine and medicine, University of Virginia School Medicine, 1964-1966;
assistant professor, University of Virginia School Medicine, 1966-1970;
associate professor internal medicine, University of Virginia School Medicine, 1970-1975;
Wade Hampton Frost professor, University of Virginia School Medicine, since 1975;
head division epidemiology and virology, University of Virginia School Medicine, since 1970;
director Center for Prevention of Disease and Injury, University of Virginia School Medicine, since 1984. Associate member Commission Acute Respiratory Diseases, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1968-1973, member, since 1993. Member of advisory panel infectious disease therapu United States Pharmacopeia, since 1970.
Consultant National Science Foundation, 1976-1979. Trustee American Type Culture Collection, 1972, Chairman of the Board, 1976-1978.
Achievements
Membership
Captain United States Army, 1960-1962. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Association of University Professors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Epidemiological Society, Medical Society Virginia, Albemarle County Medical Society, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Microbiology, American Thoracic Society (Edward Livingston Trudeau fellow 1964-1967), Virginia Thoracic Society (secretary-treasurer governing county 1973-1975, vice president 1975-1976, pres.1977-), Infectious Diseases Society American (Joseph E. Smadel award 1987), Southern Society Clinical Investigation, American Clinical and Climatological Association (Jermiah Metzgar lecturer 1984), Society Epidemiologic Research, Raven Society, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
Married Sarah Bulloch Parrott, June 26, 1954. Children: Elizabeth Cromwall, Jack Merrit III.
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American