Joseph Foster Ross

Background

Ross, Joseph Foster was born on October 11, 1910 in Azusa, California, United States. Son of Verne Ralph and Isabel Mills (Baumgarner) Ross.

Education

AB with great distinction, Leland Stanford Junior University, 1933. Doctor of Medicine cum laude with special honors in Physiology, Harvard University, 1936.

Career

Assistant topographical anatomy Harvard University School Medicine, 1934—1937, research fellow biochemistry, 1943—1946. Medical house officer Harvard cancer commission Huntington Memorial Hospital, 1934—1935, Palmer Memorial, New England Deaconess hospitals, 1935—1936. Resident pathology Mallory Institute Pathology, 1936—1937.

Intern Harvard Medical Service Boston City Hospital, 1937—1939. Assistant pathology University Rochester School Medicine, 1939—1940. Resident pathology Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, 1939—1940.

Physician, director hematology and radioisotope divisions Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, 1940—1954. Instructor, assistant professor, associate professor medicine Boston University, 1950—1954. Director radioisotope unit Cushing VA, Boston VA hospitals, 1948—1954.

Professor medicine University of California at Los Angeles, from 1954, professor radiobiology, 1954—1959, associate dean, 1954—1958, chairman department nuclear medical and radiation biology, 1958—1960, director Laboratory Nuclear Medical and Radiation Biology, 1958—1965, professor, chairman department biophysics and nuclear medicine, 1960—1965, chief division hematology, 1969—1976. Chief staff University California Hospital, Los Angeles, 1954—1958, attending physician, from 1954, past president. Retired, 1998

United States delegate International Conference Peaceful Uses Atomic Energy, Geneva, 1955.

Member United States Atoms for Peace mission to Latin American, 1956, United States Atomic Energy Commission Life Sciences Mission to Greece, Turkey, 1961, United States of America Atomic Energy Commission science mission to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1966, California Advisory Council on Cancer, 1959—1984, chairman, 1963—1966, 1974—1977. Member Central Treaty Organization Science Mission Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, 1963. Member national advisory cancer council National Cancer Institute, 1956—1960.

Research preservation whole blood Office of Scientific Research and Development, World World War II.

Achievements

• Joseph Foster Ross has been listed as a noteworthy physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member executive committee Westminster Foundation Southern California, 1962—1972, president, 1968. Fellow: American College Nuclear Medicine (Distinguished fellow 1988). Member: American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, World Federation Nuclear Medicine and Biology (chairman statutes committee 1980-1984), Council Medical Specialty Societies (secretary 1981-1982, director 1980-1982), American Board Medical Speciality (executive committee 1982-1984), Los Angeles County Medical Association (district vice president 1976-1977, 1978-1979, delegate to California Medical Association 1978-1979), Society Nuclear Medicine (trustee 1962-1972, president Southern California chapter 1964-1965, Nuclear Pioneer lecturer 1971, 1977, Distinguished Scientist award Western section 1977, Distinguished Service award 1984, Special Presidential Recognition award 1991, Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer award and lecturer 1995), Western Association Physicians (president 1962-1963), American Society Hematology 1961-1962, International Society Hematology, Radiation Research Society (council 1964-1965), Biophysics Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Association American Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Experimental Pathology, Cosmos Club (Washington), Harvard Club (Boston), Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Nu Sigma Nu, Theta Xi.

Connections

Married Eileen Sullivan, December 19, 1942. Children: Louisa, Elisabeth, Joseph, Jeanne, Marianne.

Father:

Verne Ralph Ross

Mother:

Isabel Mills (Bumgarner) Ross

Spouse:

Eileen Sullivan

child:

Joseph Ross

child:

Louisa Ross

child:

Jeanne Ross

child:

Marianne Ross

child:

Elisabeth Ross