Background
Sterner, James Hervi was born on November 14, 1904 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lloyd Parvin and Nora (Finney).
Sterner, James Hervi was born on November 14, 1904 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lloyd Parvin and Nora (Finney).
Student, Pennsylvania State Teachers College, Bloomsburg, 1925. Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State College, 1928. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1932.
House officer New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, 1931-1932, intern, 1932-1934. Chief resident physician Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, 1934-1936. Director laboratory industrial medicine Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, 1936-1948, associate medical director, 1949-1950, medical director, 1951-1968, Clinton Engineering Works, Tennessee Eastman Corporation, Oak Ridge, 1943-1945.
Medical consultant Holston Ordnance Works, Kingsport, Tennessee, 1941-1943. Instructor industrial medicine and toxicology University Rochester School Medicine, 1940-1950, associate professor medicine, 1951-1957, clinical associate professor medicine, 1958-1968, from clinical associate professor to clinical professor preventive medicine and community health, 1951-1968. Professor environmental health University Texas School Public Health, Houston, 1968-1975, acting dean, 1968, associate dean, 1969-1970.
Clinical professor occupational medicine University California College Medicine at Irvine, 1975-1985. Acting director public health City Houston, 1970. Visiting lecturer industrial hygiene Harvard University, 1952-1956.
Visiting lecturer industrial medicine University Texas Postgraduate School Medicine, 1954-1958. Senior associate physician Strong Memorial Hospital. Consultant industrial medicine Genesee Hospital, 1960-1968, Rochester General Hospital, 1963-1968.
Advisory medical board in American American Hospital of Paris, 1958. Member interim medical advisory board Manhattan Project Atomic Energy Commission, 1945-1947. Member radiological safety section and medicolegal board Operations Crossroads (Bikini experiment), 1946.
Consultant industrial health Atomic Energy Commission, 1948-1992, member advisory committee biology and medicine, 1960-1966, member general advisory committee, 1971-1974. Member committee fellowships in industrial medicine, chairman, 1950-1951. Member committee on toxicological division chemical and chemical technological National Research Council, 1947-1955, 71-74.
Member National Transuranium Registry Advisory Committee, chairman, 1969-1992. Special consultant United States Public Health Service (chairman committee on radiation studies), 1951-1953. Member cancer control committee National Cancer Institute, 1957-1961.
Expert advisory panel on occupational health World Health Organization, 1951-1992. Consultant National Center Health Statistics, 1966-1975. Member committee occupational safety and health International Labor Organization.
Member National Council Radiation Protection and Measurements, 1955-1968, New York State General Advisory Committee Atomic Energy, 1959-1965. Environmental health panel President's Science Advisory Committee, 1961-1965, National Advisory Disease Prevention and Environmental Control Council, 1964-1968. Chairman National Air Conservation Commission, 1966-1970.
Member advisory environmental panel United States Senate Committee on Public Works, 1970-1975. Member science advisory panel United States House of Representatives Committee Public Works, 1973-1975. Environmental health advisory committee Environmental Protection Agency, 1975-1992.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Industrial Medical Association (Knudsen award 1957), American College Preventive Medicine (vice president 1957-1958, president 1959-1960), American Public Health Association, American Academy Occupational Medicine (Award of Honor 1959, president 1952-1953). Member American Medical Association (chairman council on occupational health 1961-1962, member residency review committee preventive medicine 1956-1961, member council environmental public health 1963-1973, chairman 1963-1969), Society Toxicology, World Medical Association, American Industrial Hygiene Association (Cummings award 1955, president 1948-1949), American Chemical Society (councilor 1949-1952), Royal Society Health, Association Teachers Preventive Medicine, Radiation Research Society, Health Physics Society, National Association of Manufacturers (medical advisory committee 1950-1968), Manufacturing Chemists Association (medical advisory committee 1950-1957, chairman environmental health advisory committee 1966-1968), National Health Council (president 1961), National Tuberculosis Association (director), Aerospace Medical Association, Air Pollution Control Association, International Association Occupational Health (United States delegate permanent commission), Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Omega Alpha. Clubs: Cosmos.
Son of; married Frances Elkavich, April 11, 1932 (divorced 1971). Children: James R., Susan M., John P. Married Patricia L. Hudson, 1971.