Background
Boyer, James Lorenzen was born on August 28, 1936 in New York City. Son of Ralph R. and Alice M. Boyer.
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James Lorenzen Boyer
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Bachelor of Arts, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1958; Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, 1962.
Career
Medical intern, New York Hospital, New York City, 1962-1963;
resident in medicine, New York Hospital, New York City, 1963-1964;
resident in medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1966;
postdoctoral fellow liver study unit, Yale University, 1966-1968;
member of faculty, University of Chicago Pritzker School Medicine, 1972-1978;
professor medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School Medicine, 1976-1978;
director liver study unit, University of Chicago Pritzker School Medicine, 1972-1978;
professor medicine, director liver study unit, chief division digestive diseases, Yale University Medical School, 1978-1996;
director, Yale Liver Center, since 1984. Treasurer, board directors American Liver Foundation, 1976-1985. Deputy chairman National Digestive Disease Advisory Board, 1981-1984.
Council member National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 1985-1990.
Achievements
Membership
Chairman board of trustees Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salsbury Cove, Maine, since 1995. Lieutenant commander United States Public Health Service, 1964-1966. Member American Association Study Liver Disease (president 1980), American Federation Clinical Research, American College of Physicians, American Gastroenterol.
Association (councillor 1983-1986), International Association Study Liver Diseases (vice president 1982-1984, president-elect 1986-1988, president 1988-1990), American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, Society Clinical Research, American Clinical and Climatolgic Association.
Connections
Married Phoebe Bennet, February 23, 1963. Children: Phoebe Christine, Anna Birch.
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American