John Charles McGiff

Background

McGiff, John Charles was born on August 6, 1927 in New York City. Son of John Francis and Rose (Rieger) McGiff.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Georgetown University, 1947; Doctor of Medicine Columbia University, 1951; Doctorate Honoris Causa, Copernicus Academy Medicine, Cracow, Poland, 1987.

Career

Intern, U. Cincinnati, 1951-1952; resident in medicine, University of Virginia Medical Center, 1952-1953; training in physiology and pharmacology, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1957-1958; member of faculty, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1961-1966; director cardiovascular section, St. Saint Louis University Medical School, 1966-1971; director clinical pharmacology, Medical College Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1971-1975; professor, department chairman pharmacology, U. Tennessee Center Health Sciences, 1975-1979; professor, department chairman pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, since 1979. Visiting scientist Wellcome Research laboratories, Beckenham, England, 1975-1976. Advisory board American Heart Association, Kidney Foundation.

Member of national visiting county for health science faculties Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, 1987. Mam. arteriosclerosis hypertension and lipid advising committee National Institutes of Health, 1987. Consultant in field; chairman cardiovascular renal study section National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute National Institutes of Health, 1994.

Achievements

• John Charles McGiff has been listed as a noteworthy Pharmacologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President school board St. Louis Cathedral School, 1970. Served as flight surgeon Medical Corps United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1955-1957, Korea. Member American Physiological Society, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics(Otto Krayer award 1997), Council High Blood Pressure Research (medical.adv. board 1968), American Society Clinical Investigation, British Pharmacology Society, Trabucchi Lecturer, chairman of the Committee of the American Society of Hypertension.

Connections

Married Sara Leighton Babb, February 8, 1958 (deceased). Children: John, Katharine, Sara, Jeremiah, Elizabeth.

Father:

John Francis McGiff

Mother:

Rose (Rieger) McGiff

Spouse:

Sara Leighton Babb

child:

Sara McGiff

child:

Katharine McGiff

child:

Jeremiah McGiff

child:

Elizabeth McGiff

child:

John McGiff