Background
Shipp, Joseph Calvin was born on February 10, 1927 in Northport, Alabama, United States. Son of Ezra Jonah and Nora (Earnest) Shipp.
Shipp, Joseph Calvin was born on February 10, 1927 in Northport, Alabama, United States. Son of Ezra Jonah and Nora (Earnest) Shipp.
Bachelor of Science, U. Alabama, 1948; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1952.
Assistant professor medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1958-1960; research scientist, University of Oxford, England, 1958-1959; associate professor medicine, U. Florida, Gainesville, 1960-1965; professor medicine, U. Florida, 1965-1970; professor and department chairman medicine, U. Nebraska, Omaha, 1970-1980; regent's distinguished professor medicine, U. Nebraska, 1980-1986; professor medicine, University of California San Francisco, Fresno, since 1986. Consultant National Institutes of Health, 1965-1985, Fulbright-Hayes International Medicine, since 1976.
President University of California Foundation, San Francisco-Fresno, since 1994. Board of trustees, member Sansum Medical Research Foundation. Fellow American College of Physicians.
Member American Diabetes Association, Endocrine Society, American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, Rotary (chairman international activities committee 1988-1989), Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, Masons, Elks.
Married Marjorie Madeline Morris, November 25, 1961. Children: Joseph Calvin, Sherise, Dana, Michele.