Background
Pesch, LeRoy Allen was born on June 22, 1931 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. Son of Herbert Lindsey and Mary Clarissa (Tyner) Pesch.
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LeRoy Allen Pesch
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Education
Student, State University Iowa, 1948-1949; student, Iowa State University, 1950-1952; Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Washington University, St. Louis, 1956.
Career
Intern, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, 1956-1957; research associate, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1957-1959; assistant resident medicine, Grace-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, 1959-1960; clinical fellow, Yale Medical School, New Haven, 1960-1961; instructor medicine, Yale Medical School, 1961-1962; assistant professor medicine, Yale Medical School, 1962-1963; assistant director liver study unit, Yale Medical School, 1961-1963; associate physician, Grace-New Haven Hospital, 1961-1963; associate professor medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963-1964; professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1964-1966; department chairman medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1965-1966; associate dean, professor medicine, Stanford School Medicine, 1966-1968; member general medicine study section, National Institutes of Health, 1965-1970; chairman, National Institutes of Health, 1969-1970; dean, director university hospitals, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1968-1971; special consultant to secretary for health, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970-1975; professor division biological science and medicine, University of Chicago, 1972-1977; professor pathology, Northwestern University, 1977-1979; health and hospital consultant chairman, chief Executive officer, Health Resources Corporation American, 1981-1984; Chairman, Board Of Directors, Republic Health corporation, 1985-1988; chairman, chief Executive officer, The Bora Health Group, Seattle, 1987-1992; president, Genus Technology Corporation, since 1987; chairman, chief Executive officer, The Pesch Group of Companies, Sun Valley, Idaho., since 1989.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Buffalo Medical Foundation, 1969-1972, Health Organisation, Western New York, 1968-1971, Joffrey Ballet, New York City, since 1980. Trustee Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, 1971-1976, president, Chief Executive Officer, 1971-1977. Member Executive Board Auditorium Theatre Council, Chicago.
Trustee W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation. Member of advisory committee Congressional Awards. President Pesch Family Foundation.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Study of Liver Diseases, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Biological Chemists, Quadrangle Club, Acapulco Yacht Club, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
Children from previous marriage: Christopher Allen, Brian Lindsey, Daniel Ethan. Married DonnaJ. Stone, December 28, 1975 (deceased February 1985). Stepchildren: Christopher Scott Kneifel, Linda Suzanne Kneifel.
Married Gerri Ann Cotton, September 27, 1986. 1 child, Tyner Ford.
