Background
Cox, Jerome Rockhold was born on May 24, 1925 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Jerome R. and Jane (Mills) Cox.
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Jerome Rockhold Cox
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Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1947; S.M. Entertainment, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1949; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1954.
Career
Member of faculty, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1955;
professor electrical engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1961;
professor biomedical engineering in physiology and biophysics, School Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1965;
director biomedical Computer Laboratory, Washington University, St. Louis, 1964-1975;
chairman computer laboratories, Washington University, St. Louis, 1967-1983;
program director training program technical in health care, Washington University, St. Louis, 1970-1978;
department chairman Computer Science, 1975-1991;
professor biomedicine, Institute for biomedical Computing, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1983;
Harold and Adelaide Welge professor computer science, since 1989;
director, Applied Research Lab, 1991-1995. Co-chairman computers in cardiology conference, 1974-1988. Cardiology advisory com.Nat.
Heart and Lung Institute, 1975-1978. Member epidemiology biostatistics and bioengineering cluster President's biomedical Research Panel, 1975-1976. Chairman Division computer Research and Technology review committee National Institutes of Health, 1983-1996.
Member PROPHET advising committee National Institutes of Health, 1983-1988. Member of advisory committee Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, 1988-1992. Member National Neural Circuitry Database committee Institute of Medicine, NAS, 1989-1991.
Member National Advisory Council Human Genome Research, 1990-1995.
Achievements
Membership
Member of board of managers Control Institute Deaf, since 1993. Served with United States Army, 1943-1944. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Acoustical Society American, American College Medical Informatics.
Senior member Institute Medicine. Member Association Computing Machinery, St. Louis Academy Science (board directors since 1997), Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi.
Connections
Married Barbara Jane Lueders, September 2,1951. Children— Nancy Jane Cox Battersby, Jerome Mills, Randall Allen.
