John Kenneth Gohagan

Background

Gohagan, John Kenneth was born on July 24, 1939 in Barrington, New Jersey, United States. Son of John K. Gohagan and Marion A. Happ.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, LaSalle College, 1964; Master of Science in Physics, Temple University, 1969; D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard School Public Health, 1973.

Career

Teacher basic electonics and KO-6 digital electronic cryptographic equipment, United States Army Signal Corps School, Fort Monmouth, 1958-1960; member executive staff, project engineer, researcher, educator, unites states department Defense Armaments Commissioned/Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, 1964-1974; teacher probability, statistics, decision analysis, calculus center for advanced engineering study division sponsored research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971-1973; acting director division healthcare, professor preventive medicine, director program industrial production management, researcher, investigator schools medicine and engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, 1974-1991; director, project officer prostate, lung, colon-rectum and ovary cancer screening trial division cancer prevention and control branch early detection, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1990; chief branch early detection, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1992. Member science working group to explore issues in breast self-examination National Cancer Institute, 1982, DRCCA Board Science Counselors. subcommittee on screening, 1982, breast cancer task force meeting, 1983, program project site visit team, 1987. Member technical advisors task forces for plan development on acute care, new. technical, and long term care, 1977.

Member long term care project review task force St. Louis Health Systems Agy, 1977-1982, chairman technical innovative equipment task force emission computed tomography, 1978, radiation therapy technical advisors task force, 1979, project review committee, 1979-1982, acute care project review task force, 1979-1982. Resource professional Missouri Cancer Programs Planning, 1978-1979. Member biostatistics and epidemiology committee Missouri Cancer Programs, 1978-1979.

Visiting researcher division cancer prevention and control National Cancer Institute, 1985. Senior fellow department finance Wharton School Business, visiting professional division clinical epidemiology department medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1989. Proposal reviewer National Science Foundation, 1982.

Member science board advisors Somanetics corporation, 1985-1988. Consultant Federal Highway Administration, 1975, Missouri Department Revenue, 1975, Executive Training Workshops, 1976-1980, Southern Illinois U., 1978, Interagency Institute for Federal Healthcare Executives, 1980, Pentax Corporation, 1984, Boatman's Bank N.A., 1988-1990. Invited lecturer in field.

Achievements

• John Kenneth Gohagan has been listed as a noteworthy Medical institute administrator, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS FOR PUBLIC POLICY McGraw-Hill Series in Quantitative Metho
  • Quantitative Analysis for Public Policy (McGraw-Hill series in quantitative methods for management)

Membership

Chairman St. Louis region Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Fund Drives, 1977-1982. Active Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Fund Board, 1979-1982. Fellow American College Epidemiology.

Member Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Dorothy L. Childs.

Father:

John K. Gohagan

Mother:

Marion A. Happ

Spouse:

Dorothy L. Childs.