John Dickson Fernstrom

Background

Fernstrom, John Dickson was born on July 9, 1947 in New York City. Son of Karl Dickson and Dorothy Weston (Bond) Fernstrom.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972.

Career

Research fellow, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey, 1972-1973; assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1977; associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1977-1982; associate professor, U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1982-1987; professor psychiatry, behavioral neuroscience, U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine, since 1987; professor pharmacology, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, since 1992. Member National Institute Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health Program Project Review, Bethesda, Maryland., 1978-1982, chairman, 1981-1982. Member NASALife Sciences Advisory Commission, Washington, 1980-1986, National Institute of Mental Health Neurosci.

Branch Evaluation Panel, Rockville, Maryland., 1983, National Advisory Council, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, since 1987. Member nutrition program research evaluation panel National Institute Childhood Diseases, 1989. Burroughs-Wellcome visiting professor basic medical science, 1993.

Member commission on military nutrition research, food and nutrition board NAS, since 1994, committee dietary reformed intake, since 1997.

Achievements

• John Dickson Fernstrom has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatry educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Society for Neurochemistry, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Physiological Society, American Institute Nutrition (chairman nervoussystem section, member publ information committee, member county, Mead-Johnson award 1980), Endocrine Society.

Connections

Married Madelyn Jill Hirsch;children: Aaron, Lauren.

Father:

Karl Dickson Fernstrom

Mother:

Dorothy Weston (Bond) Fernstrom

Spouse:

Madelyn Jill Hirsch;children: Aaron

child:

Aaron Fernstrom

child:

Lauren Fernstrom