Background
Byrd, Larry Donald was born on July 14, 1936 in Salisbury, North Carolina, United States. Son of Donald Thomas and Mildred (Gardner) Byrd.
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Larry Donald Byrd
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AB, East Carolina U., Greenville, North Carolina, 1962; Master of Arts, East Carolina U., 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, U. North Carolina, 1968; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1967-1970.
Career
Faculty, East Carolina U., 1962-1964;
teaching and research assistant experimental psychology, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1964-1967;
research fellow pharmacology, instructor psychobiology, Harvard Medical School, 1967-1970;
associate scientist Laboratory Psychobiology, New England Reg. Primate Research Center, 1969-1974;
psychobiologist, chairman division primate behavior, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 1974-1979;
associate research professor, chairman division primate behavior, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 1979-1980;
lecturer department psychology, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 1974-1981;
associate research professor, chief division behavioral biology, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 1980-1982;
professor, chief division behavioral biology, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 1982-1997;
professor department pharmacology, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 1995-1997;
professor emeritus, 1998. Adjunct Professor department psychology Emory University, 1981-1997.
Consultant Department Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences University of Chicago, 1973, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge, 1975, National Center for Toxicological Research Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, 1976-1977, S.W.Found. for Research and Education, San Antonio, 1977, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory United States Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, 1977, G.D. Searle andCo., Skokie, Illinois, 1986, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, 1989-1994. Member special review committee Contract Review Unit National Institute on Drug Abuse, Lexington, Kentucky, 1979-1981, member special review committee biomedical research review committee,1981-1982, special review consultant clinical, behavioral and psychosocial research review committee, 1981-1982, member, 1982-1985, chairman, 1984-1985, others. Special review consultant department medicine and surgery VA, Washington, 1983, National Science Foundation, Washington,1984, division of research resources National Institutes of Health, Washington, 1983, member special studysect. division research grants, 1984, panel member Workshop on Implemenation of Public Health Svc.
Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 1989, others. Panel member United States Public Health Service Animal Welfare Forum Alcohol, Drug Abuseand Mental Health Administration, 1985. Active numerous other career related organizations.
Achievements
Membership
Member science advising committee National Families in Action, 1991-1995. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (Executive Committee psychopharmacology divsn.1976-1995, neurobehavioral toxicity test standards committee 1980-1997, coordinator Young Psychopharmacologist award 1985-1995, board science affairs commission on animals in research and ethics 1990-1993). Member Association for Assessment and Accreditation Laboratory Animal Care (trustee 1990-1998, Executive Committee 1991-1998, secretary 1993, vice chairman 1994-1996, chairman 1996-1998), American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, National Families in Action (science advising committee 1991-1995), American Society Primatologist, Behavioral Pharmacology Society (president 1984-1986), Society Experimental Analysis of Behavior (vice president 1975-1976, board directors 1970-1978), European Behavioral Pharmacology Society, Southeastern PharmacologySoc., Am Public Health Association, Behavioral Toxicology Society, SoutheasternAssn. for Behavior Analysis, International Study Group Investigating Drugs as Reinforcers, Emory Neurosci.
Group, Phi Sigma Pi.
Connections
Married Corrinne Williams, Dec.23, 1961. Children: Kay, Lynn, Renee, Andrew.
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Nationality
American