Background
Chapman, John Edmon was born on July 5, 1931 in Springfield, Missouri, United States. Son of Loran Edmon and Bertha Gay (Duncan) Chapman.
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John Edmon Chapman
Edit ProfilePharmacologist physician university dean
Education
Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry, Southwest Missouri State College, 1954; Doctor of Medicine, U. Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, 1958; Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Karolinska Medical Institute, Stockholm, 1987.
Career
Intern, Kansas Medical Center, 1958-1959;
assistant chief medical staff, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1959-1960;
resident and fellow in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology, U. Kansas Medical Center, 1960-1963;
instructor medicine and pharmacology School Medicine, U. Kansas, 1961-1962;
assistant to associate professor pharmacology, U. Kansas, 1962-1967;
assistant dean to associate dean student affairs, U. Kansas, 1963-1967;
coordinator medical education for national defense, U. Kansas, 1963-1967;
associate dean for education School Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1967-1975;
dean School Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 1975. Co-chairman Liaison Committee on Medical Education, 1988. Foreign Adjunct Professor Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
Member composite committee United States Medical Licensing Examiners, chairman, since 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Member steering committee Health Policy Agenda for American People, 1982-1987. Mem.exec. board Middle Tennessee councils Boy Scouts American, Nashville, since 1984. ActiveLeadership Nashville, since 1985.
Board directors Health Education Media Association, Washington, 1973-1984. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Medical Association (chairman of the section on medical schools 1981-1983, founding member section on medical schools, delegate house of deals, county on medical education since 1989, accreditation county for graduate medical education), American College Clinical Pharmacology(life, regent 1972-1982, 89-), American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therpaeutics, American Academy Management, American Academy Medical Administration, Association American Medical Colls.
(county deans, administrative board county deans 1977-1984, executive county 1977-1984), Society Medical Conservation to Armed Forces, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
Married Judy Jean Cox, March 9, 1968.
