Background
Velardo, Joseph Thomas was born on January 27, 1923 in Newark. Son of Michael Arthur and Antoinette (Iacullo) Velardo.
Molecular biology and endocrinology educator
Velardo, Joseph Thomas was born on January 27, 1923 in Newark. Son of Michael Arthur and Antoinette (Iacullo) Velardo.
Bachelor of Arts Northern Colorado, 1948. Master of Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1952.
Research fellow in biology and endocrinology Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1952-1953. Research associate in pathology, obstetrics-gynecology and surgery Harvard University School Medicine, Boston, 1953-1955. Assistant in surgery Peter Bent Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1954-1955.
Assistant professor anatomy and endocrinology School Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, 1955-1961. Professor anatomy, chairman department New York Medical College, New York City, 1961-1962. Consultant New York Fertility Institute, 1961-1962.
Director Institute for Study Human Reproduction, Cleveland, 1962-1967. Professor biology John Carroll University, 1962-1967. Member research and education divisions St. Ann Ob-Gyn.
Hospital, 1962-1967, head department research, 1964-1967. Professor anatomy Stritch School Medicine Loyola University, Chicago, 1967-1988, chairman department anatomy Stritch School of Medicine, 1967-1973. Vice president Universal Research Systems, Warren, Ohio, from 1975.
President University Research Systems, Lombard, from 1979, International Basic and Biological-biomedical Curricula, Lombard, Illinois, from 1979. Course moderator laparoscopy Brazil-Israel Congress on Fertility and Sterility, Brazil Society of Human Reproduction, Rio de Janeiro, 1973. Member curriculum committee Yale University School Medicine, 1956—1961, director experimental mammalian laboratories, 1956—1961.
Organizer, chairman symposia in field. Initial charter founder, member University Sacramento, 2003.
Appointed United States delegate to Vatican, 1964. Charter member United States Republican Presidential Task Force, since 1988. Charter member United States Republican National Senatorial Committee, since 1988, Republican National Committee Victory Team, 2003.
Member Republican Senate Advisory Council, since 1997. Representative United States Senate Inner Circle, since 1988, United States Republican Senatorial Commission, since 1991. With United States Army Air Force, World World War II, 1943-1945.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences (co-organizer, chairman, consulting editor international symposium The Uterus), Gerontological Society, Pacific Coast Fertility Society (honorary). Member French National Society for Study of Sterility and Fertility (executive honorary president IVth World Congress on Fertility and Sterility 1962), American Association Anatomists, American Society Zoologists, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (organizer symposium The Uterus), American Physiological Society (visiting professor 1962), Endocrine Society, Society Endocrinology (Great Britain), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Society Study Sterility (Rubin award 1954), International Fertility Association, Pan American Association Anatomy (co-organizer symposium Reproduction 1972), Midwestern Society Anatomists (president 1973-1974), Mexican Society Anatomy (honorary), Harvard Club, Sigma Xi, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Sigma, Gamma Alpha, Alpha Epsilon Delta.
Married Forresta M. Monica Power, August 12, 1948 (deceased July 1976).