Background
Campbell, James Allan was born on November 29, 1917 in Moweaqua, Illinois, United States. Son of Frank Arthur and Gertrude Mary (Dowling) Campbell.
Campbell, James Allan was born on November 29, 1917 in Moweaqua, Illinois, United States. Son of Frank Arthur and Gertrude Mary (Dowling) Campbell.
Bachelor of Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1939, Honorary Doctor of Science, 1965. Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1943. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lake Forest (Illinois) College, 1968.
Diplomate: American Board Internal Medicine.
Assistant resident in pathology Billings Hospital, Chicago, 1941-1942. Assistant pathology University of Chicago Medical School, 1941-1942. Intern, then assistant resident in medicine Boston City Hospital, 1943-1945, resident, 1945-1946.
Teaching fellow medicine Harvard University Medical School, 1944-1945.
Assistant medicine Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, 1945-1946. Harvey Cushing fellow Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, 1947-1948.
Professor medicine University of Illinois Medical School, 1951-1971. Attending physician Albany (New York) Hospital, 1951-1953.
Also dean, professor medicine Albany Medical College, 1951-1953.
Assistant attending physician Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, 1948-1951, associate attending, 1951, department chairman medicine, 1953. President, trustee successor Rush-Presbyterian-Saint Luke’s Medical Center, 1964. Professor medicine Rush Medical College, 1971-1983.
Director Morton-Thiokol, Incorporated.
Board directors Hospital Research and Ednl. Trust; past planning director education in health fields Illinois Board Higher Education, 1964-1968.
Balfour visiting professor medicine Mayo Foundation, 1975. Trustee Knox College, Sprague Memorial Institute, 1973-1983.
Served as captain Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1946-1947. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Clinical and Climatological Association, Central Society Clinical Research, Central Society Clinical Investigation, New York Academy Sciences, Alpha Omega Alpha (past president, directory).
Married Elda Schaffer Crichton, September 23, 1944. Children: James Allan, Bruce Crichton, Douglas Karr.