Background
Geistfeld, James Gordon was born on October 11, 1947 in St. James, Minnesota, United States. Son of Victor Edgar and Viola Otille Geistfeld.
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James Gordon Geistfeld
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James Gordon Geistfeld, American Veterinarian. Achievements include design of a new dog run, new animal research facilities; first to report a new mouse bacterial pathogen-group B type V streptococcus; discovery of several new animal models for human disease research. Recipient Hole-In-The-Shoe award United States Public Health Service, 1975; National Institutes of Health fellow, 1975-1977.
Education
Bachelor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1969; Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, 1973; Master of Business Administration, U. Evansville, 1983.
Career
Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, 1973-1975;
postdoctoral fellow, Bowman Gray School Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1976-1977;
staff veterinarian, Mead Johnson Research Center, Evansville, Indiana, 1977-1982;
senior research scientist, Bristol-Myers Company, Evansville, Indiana, 1982-1987;
director laboratory animal medicine and surgery, Rorer Pharmaceutical Company, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, 1988-1990;
vice president, TNT Genetics Superior vena cava syndrome, Albany, New York, 1995-1997;
director laboratory animal medicine, vice president, Taconic Ventures, Inc., Germantown, New York, since 1990. Consultant Indiana State University, Terre Haute, 1982-1987, U. Evansville, 1983-1987, OrienTreich Foundation, Cold Spring-on-Hudson, New York, since 1992, State University of New York, Albany, since 1997. Adjunct Professor University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1989-1990.
Member expert committees National Institutes of Health/ILAR.
Achievements
Membership
Member church county 3d Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, New York, 1992-1996. Trustee Friends of Clermont, Germantown, 1994-1996. Member C.L. Davis Foundation.
Member American Veterinary Medical Association, American Society Laboratory Animal Practitioners, American College Laboratory Animal Medicine, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, American Association Indiana Veterans, American Gnotobiotic Society, International Society for Gnotobiology, American Society Microbiology, Rip Van Winkle Hiking Club (leader 1991-1994), Sigma Xi.
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Married Barbara Jean Lane, July 22, 1972. Children: Matthew James, Erin Michal.
