Background
Villablanca, Jaime Rolando was born in February 1929 in Chillàn, Chile. Arrived in the United States, 1971, naturalized, 1985. Son of Ernesto and Teresa (Hernàndez) Villablanca.
neuroscientist medical educator
Villablanca, Jaime Rolando was born in February 1929 in Chillàn, Chile. Arrived in the United States, 1971, naturalized, 1985. Son of Ernesto and Teresa (Hernàndez) Villablanca.
Bachelor in Biology, National Institute Chile, 1946. Licentiate medicine, University Chile, 1953. Doctor of Medicine, University Chile, 1954.
Rockefeller Foundation postdoctoral fellow in physiology John Hopkins and Harvard Medical Schools, 1959-1961. Fogarty international research fellow in anatomy University of California at Los Angeles, 1966-1968, associate research anatomist and psychiatrist, 1971-1972. Associate professor psychiatry and biobehavioral science University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, 1972-1976.
Professor psychiatry and biobehavioral science University of California at Los Angeles, 1976—2004, professor neurobiology, 1977—2004, distinguished professor psychiatry and biobehavioral science, neurobiology, 2004—2007, distinguished emeritus professor, since 2007. Member faculty University Chile School Medicine, 1954-1971, professor experimental medicine, 1970-1971. Visiting professor neurobiology Catholic University Chile School Medicine, 1974.
Consultant in field.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, Sleep Research Society (Significant Early Contributor award 2003), Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Brain Research Institute, International Brain Research Organization, American Physiological Society, Society for Neurosci., Association Venezolana Padres de Niños Excepcionales, Society Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology (Chile, honorary), Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association, Sigma Xi.
Married Guillermina Nieto, December 3, 1955. Children: Amparo C., Jaime G., Pablo J., Francis X., Claudio I.