Background
ROMANO, John was born on November 20, 1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Nicholas Vincent Romano and Frances Louise Notari Romano.
ROMANO, John was born on November 20, 1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Nicholas Vincent Romano and Frances Louise Notari Romano.
Bachelor of Science, Marquette University, 1932. Doctor of Medicine, Marquette University, 1934. Doctor of Science (honorary), Medical College Wisconsin, 1971.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Hahnemann Medical College, 1974. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Cincinnati, 1979.
Assistant biochemistry Marquette University School Medicine, 1929-1930. Extern psychiatry Milwaukee County Asylum for Mental Diseases, 1932-1933. Intern medicine Milwaukee County Hospital, 1933-1934.
Assistant psychiatry Yale School Medicine, 1934-1935. Intern, assistant resident psychiatry New Haven Hospital, 1934-1935. Commonwealth Fund fellow psychiatry University Colorado, 1935-1938.
Assistant psychiatrist Colorado Psychopathic Hospital, Denver, 1935-1938. Fellow neurology Boston City Hospital, 1938-1939. Rockefeller fellow neurology Harvard Medical School, 1938-1939, assistant medicine, 1939-1940, instructor medicine, 1940-1942.
Associate medicine Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1939-1942. Sigmund Freud fellow psychoanalysis Boston Psychoanalytic Society, 1939-1942. Director department psychiatry Cincinnati General Hospital, 1942-1946.
Professor psychiatry University Cincinnati College Medicine, 1942-1946. Psychiatrist in chief Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, 1946-1971. Professor psychiatry, chairman department University Rochester School Medicine, 1946-1971, distinguished university professor psychiatry, 1968-1979, distinguished university professor emeritus, 1979-1994.
Lecturer in field; visiting professor University Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1972. Physician-in-residence United States Virginia, 1975-1979. Qualified psychiatrist New York State Department Mental Hygiene, 1954-1994: national advisory mental health council United States Public Health Service, chairman mental health career investigator selection committee, 1956-1961.
Chairman advisory committee human growth and emotion development Social Science Research Foundation, 1953. Member board health science policy Institute Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1985. Member science council National Alliance Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, 1985-1989 and others.
Member editorial board Journal Psychiatric Research, 1961-1978, Schizophrenia Bull, 1971-1994. Member panel of editors: Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health, 1972-1984. Senior editor The Merck Manual, 15th edition, 1987.Contributor articles to professional journals.
Served as visiting neuropsychiatry consultant 8th Service Command Army of the United States, 1943-1944. Consultant psychiatry Army of the United States, 1945, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal College Psychiatrists (honorary).
Member Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences (senior ), Association Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (1st vice president 1955), American Psychiatric Association (Psychiatrist of Year Area II award 1976, Distinguished Service award 1979, Special Presidential Commendation 1994), Physicians for Social Responsibility (advisory board Rochester chapter 1985-1994), American League Against Epilepsy, American Society Research Psychosomatic Problems, National Committee Mental Hygiene, American Neurological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Clinical Investigation, Monroe County Society Mental Hygiene (director), New York Academy Medicine (Salmon committee on psychiatry and medicine 1970-1989, Salmon medal 1984), Phi Beta Kappa (vice president Iota chapter 1983-1985), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington). Fortnightly.
Medical history.
Married Miriam Modesitt, May 13, 1933 (deceased 1989). 1 child, David Gilman.