Background
Urquhart, John was born on April 24, 1934 in Pittsburgh. Son of John and Wilma Nelda (Martin) Urquhart.
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John Urquhart
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Bachelor with honors, Rice University, 1955. Doctor of Medicine with honors, Harvard University, 1959. Doctorate (honoris causa) U. Utrecht, 1997.
Licensed physician, California Walter B. Cannon fellow in physiology Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1956, Josiah Macy, Junior fellow, 1956-1958, 59-61.
Intern in surgery Mass.Gen. Hospital, Boston, 1959-1960, assistant resident, 1960-1961.
Investigator National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1961-1963. Assistant professor physiology U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, 1963-1966, associate professor, 1966-1968, professor, 1968-1970.
Professor biomedical engineering University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1970-1971.
Principal scientist ALZA Corporation, Palo Alto, California, 1970-1986, director biological science, 1971-1974, president research division, 1974-1978, director, 1976-1978, chief scientist, 1978-1982, senior vice president, 1978-1985. Company-founder APREX Corporation, Fremont, California, president, 1986-1988, director 1986-1995, chairman, 1988-1991, chief scientist, 1988-1995. Company-founder, chief scientist AARDEX Limited., Zug, Switzerland, 1995.
Visiting professor pharmacology U. Limburg School Medicine, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1984-1985, visiting professor pharmaco-epidemiology, 1986-1991.
Professor pharmaco-epidemiology, 1992. Adjunct Professor biopharmaceutical science University of California-San Francisco, 1984.
Member director"s advising committee National Institutes of Health, 1986-1988. Boerhaave lecturer U.Leiden, The Netherlands, 1991, 94, 95, 97.
Career
Physician, California. Assistant professor physiology U. Pittsburgh Scientist ALZA Corporation, Palo Alto, California.
Achievements
Membership
Served with United States Public Health Service, 1961-1963. National Institutes of Health grantee, 1963-1970. Member biomedical Engineering Society (president 1976), Boyleston Medical Society, International Society Pharmaco-epidemiology, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Society for Clinical Trials, Endocrine Society, Saturday Morning club Palo Alto., American Physiological Society, Society Risk Analysis.
Connections
Married Joan Cooley, December 28, 1957. Children: Elizabeth Urquhart Vdovjak, John Christopher (deceased 1965), Robert Malcolm, Thomas Jubal.
