Lewis Carl Mokrasch

Background

Mokrasch, Lewis Carl was born on May 9, 1930 in St. Paul. Son of Lewis and Anna (Dvorak) Mokrasch.

Education

Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, College St. Thomas, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1955.

Career

Research associate department psychiatry and neurology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, 1956-1957; associate professor department biochemistry, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, 1971-1976; professor, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, 1976-1992; professor emeritus, Louisiana State University Medical Center, since 1992; acting head department, Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1978-1979. Instructor medicine U. Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, 1957-1959, associate inmedicine, director neurochemistry laboratory, 1959-1962. Assistant biochemist McLeanHosp., Belmont, Massachusetts, 1960-1964, associate biochemist, 1964-1971.

Associate department biological chemistry Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1964-1967. Assistant professor,1967-1971. Adjunct associate professor biology Hellenic College, Brookline, Massachusetts,1969-1971.

Staff scientist Neurosciences Research Programs, Brookline,1970-1971. Visiting professor neurology Duke U. Medical Center, 1981-1982. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Lewis Carl Mokrasch has been listed as a noteworthy Neurochemist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President Belmont Preservation Society, 1969. Candidate Board Selectman, Belmont, 1969. Active Forssyth County Adult Care Home Cmty.

Advisory Committee, Hospice, Senior Finance Care, Winston-Salem, Piedmont Opera Guild, Winston Salem Piedmont Triad Symphony Guild, Reynolda House Museum American Art, ReynoldaGardens, Senior Superior vena cava syndrome Program, Winston Salem, Citizens Quality Nursing Home Care, 1991-1992. Fellow American Association Clinical Chemists. Member American Association of University Professors, American Society Neurochemistry (local chairman 1974), American Society Biological Chemists, Society Neurosci.

(founder, president local chapter 1974-1975), Society Research Adminstrs. (membership chairman New England section), National Citizens Coalition Nursing Home Reform, National Taxpayers Union, North Carolina Taxpayers United, American Association Individual Investors (founder, past president, secretary Piedmont chapter), Peoples Medical Society.

Connections

Married Jane Carolyn Church, April 20, 1974.

Father:

Lewis Mokrasch

Mother:

Anna (Dvorak) Mokrasch

Spouse:

Jane Carolyn Church