Background
III, James Francis Dickson, was born on May 4, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Francis Junior and Mary Elizabeth (Rich) Dickson.
III, James Francis Dickson, was born on May 4, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Francis Junior and Mary Elizabeth (Rich) Dickson.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1944; Doctor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, 1947.
Intern and resident Boston City Hospital, 1947—1951. Practice in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Boston, 1951—1961. National Institutes of Health special fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1961—1965.
Director engineering in biology and medicine program National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1965—1971. President advisory Committee Management Improvement, 1971—1976. Assistant surgeon general Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, 1976—1989.
Senior advisor to dean Harvard Medical School, 1992—2001, visiting committee, 1992—2001. Board overseers Dartmouth Medical School, 1990—2003, C. Everett Koop Institute, since 1992.
Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American College of Surgeons. Member: Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences.
Married Vivian Joan Franco, December 23, 1977.