John Rogers Blinks

Background

Blinks, John Rogers was born on March 21, 1931 in New York City. Son of Lawrence Rogers and Anne Catherine (Hof) Blinks.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University, 1951; Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1955.

Career

Medical house officer, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1955-1956; research associate, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1956-1958; faculty, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1958-1968; instructor, 1958-1961; associate, 1961-1964; assistant professor pharmacology, 1964-1968; John and Mary R. Markle Foundation scholar, 1961-1966; head department pharmacology, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, 1968-1988; associate professor pharmacology, Mayo Graduate School Medicine, 1968-1972; professor department pharmacology, Mayo Medical School, 1973-1990; Electronic Arts and M.F. Guggenheim professor, Mayo Medical School, 1981-1987; distinguished investigator, Mayo Medical School, 1985-1990; professor physiology/biophysics, U. Washington School Medicine, Seattle, since 1990. Honorary research assistant department physiology University College, London, 1962-1963. Visiting lecturer department physiology U. Auckland, New Zealand, 1974.

Established investigator American Heart Association, 1965-1970, member research committee, 1975-1979, chairman research committee, vice president for research, 1979, science publications committee, 1983-1987. Member program projects committee National Heart and Lung Institute, 1968-1972, member cardiology advising committee, 1975-1979. Chairman Gordon Research Conference on Heart Muscle, 1970.

Member external advisory board Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, 1975-1977. Member pharmacology test committee National Board Medical Examiners, 1984-1986.

Achievements

• John Rogers Blinks has been listed as a noteworthy Physiology and biophysics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with United States Public Health Service, 1956-1958. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (Otto Krayer award 1987), American Physiological Society, Biophysics Society, Cardiac Muscle Society (secretary-treasurer 1977-1979, president 1979-1981), Society General Physiologists.

Connections

Married Doris Marie Chambers, December 28, 1953. Children: Susan Mayo, Sarah Russell, Elizabeth Rogers.

Father:

Lawrence Rogers Blinks

Mother:

Anne Catherine (Hof) Blinks

Spouse:

Doris Marie Chambers

child:

Sarah Russell Blinks

child:

Susan Mayo Blinks

child:

Elizabeth Rogers Blinks