Joan Morrissey Altekruse

Background

Altekruse, Joan Morrissey was born on November 15, 1928 in Cohoes, New York, United States. Daughter of William T. Dee and Agnes Kay (Fitzgerald) Morrissey.

Education

AB, Vassar College, New York, 1949; Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University, California, 1960; Master in Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1965; Department of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 1973.

Career

Cons., program director, California State Health Department, 1966-1969; member of faculty, U. Heidelberg, Germany, 1970-1972; medical director regional office, Florida State Health Department, 1972-1975; professor, director health administration, School Public Health, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1975-1977; professor preventive medicine, University South Carolina. School of Medicine, Columbia, 1975-1994; department chairman, University South Carolina. School of Medicine, Columbia, 1979-1989; distinguished professor emerita, University South Carolina.

School of Medicine, Columbia, since 1994. Fellow, associate director Irish Peace Institute, U. Limerick, Ireland, since 1990. Visiting scholar Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University, 1992.

Women in medicine liaison officer Association American Medical Colls., 1980-1994. Member editorial board Aspen Publs.

Achievements

• Joan Morrissey Altekruse has been listed as a noteworthy preventive medicine educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Pres-elect Harvard School Public Health Alumni Council, 1998. Senior docent chair, volunteer board member Hunter Museum American Art, Chattanooga. Lieutenant United States Marine Corps, 1949-1951.

Senior surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1960-1964. Fellow American College Preventive Medicine, Association Teachers Preventive Medicine (president 1986, Special Recognition award 1995), American Public Health Association (member emerita). Member American Board Preventive Medicine (trustee 1984-1993), Am.Bd.

Medical Specialities (delegate 1990-1993), American Heart Association (South Carolina. affiliate president 1986, agenda planning committee 1987-1989, women and minorities leadership committee 1989-1992, Lifetime Achievement award 1992), National Board Medical Examiners (comprehensive test committee 1986-1992), American Womens Medical Association.

Connections

Married Ernest B. Altekruse, December 17, 1950. Children— Philip, Clifford, Lisa, Janice, Charles, Sean, Lowell, Patrick, E. Caitlin.

Father:

William T. Dee Morrissey

Mother:

Agnes Kay (Fitzgerald) Morrissey

Spouse:

Ernest B. Altekruse