Jerry Ray Mitchell

Background

Mitchell, Jerry Ray was born on July 27, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Herman Boyd and Edna Ilene (Belt) Mitchell.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Chemistry, U. Kentucky, 1963; M.D. (Vanderbilt scholar, Borden Medical Research award), Vanderbilt University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, 1969.

Career

Intern in internal medicine, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, 1968-1969; assistant resident in internal medicine, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York City, 1969-1970; research associate pharmacology-toxicology laboratory chemical pharmacology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1970-1972; senior clinical investigator, experimental therapeutics branch and hypertension-endocrine branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1972-1977; chief section clinical pharmacology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1973-1976; chief section clinical pharmacology and metabolism, office director intramuralresearch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1976-1977; chief section hypertension and clinical pharmacology-toxicology, Baylor College Medicine and Affiliated Hospitals, Houston, since 1977; professor internal medicine and chemical toxicology, Baylor College Medicine and Affiliated Hospitals, Houston. William N. Creasy-Burroughs Wellcome visiting professor clinical pharmacology Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1976. Pfizer visiting professor clinical pharmacology U. Colorado College Medicine, 1980, Northwestern University College Medicine, 1980, U. Mississippi College Medicine, 1980.

Member committee Drug Research Board National Academy Sciences-National Research Council, 1974-1976. Member committee ancillary studies National Cooperative Gallstone Study, since 1974. Member special study section National Institute Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases, 1975.

Member peer review advisory board Food and Drug Administration, 1976. Member pharmacology science review committee National Institute General Medical Sciences, since 1980. Visiting lecturer George Washington University.

Achievements

• Jerry Ray Mitchell has been listed as a notable Physician, scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (John Jay Abel award 1977), American Federation Clinical Research, American Association Study of Liver Diseases, American Society Clinical Investigation, Southern Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Bettie Elaine Holding, July 3, 1965. Children: Matthew, Meredith.

Father:

Herman Boyd Mitchell

Mother:

Edna Ilene (Belt) Mitchell

Spouse:

Bettie Elaine Holding

child:

Matthew Mitchell

child:

Meredith Mitchell