Lloyd Joseph Florio

Background

Florio, Lloyd Joseph was born on March 9, 1910 in Batavia, New York, United States. Son of Flavio and Ida (Lindinann) Florio.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1931. Doctor of Medicine, University Rochester, 1935. Doctor P.H., Harvard, 1941.

Fellow tropical medicine Tulane University, 1942.

Study tissue culture U. Toronto, 1948. Honorary Doctor of Science, Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippine Islands, 1966.

Career

Intern Buffalo General Hospital, 1935-1936. Fellow Will Keith Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1937-1940. Associate professor public health U. Colorado School Medicine, 1941-1946, professor public health, 1946-1947, professor, head department preventive medicine public health, 1947-1957, manager health and hospitals, 1952-1959, clinical professor, 1957-1959.

Fellow tropical medicine, Costa Rica, 1941, World Health Organization, 1949.

Consultant United States Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, 1948-1957, public health in of Korea, American-Korean Foundation, 1954, medicine Denver General Hospital, to 1959, public health Children’s Hospital, Denver, to 1959. Chief health division United States Operations Mission, Manila, 1959-1966.

Honorary professor of University San Tomas, Manila, 1966. Regional health adviser Near East and South. Asia, Agency for International Development, 1967-1968, human resources officer, Lima, Peru, 1968-1969, assistant director (public health), Saigon, Vietnam, 1969-1971.

Senior health adviser Technology Assistance Bureau, Agency for International Development, 1972.

Achievements

• Lloyd Joseph Florio has been listed as a noteworthy physician, foreign service officer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of the board National Tuberculosis Association, 1947-1959, vice president, 1956-1957. Diplomate American Board Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 1949. Member Association professors Preventive Medicine (president 1950-1953), American, Colorado (president 1945-1947) public health associations, American Medical Association, Colorado, Denver medical societies, American College of Physicians, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Madeline Carey, June 24, 1937. Children: Barbara, Marcia, David.

Father:

Flavio Florio

Mother:

Ida (Lindinann) Florio

Spouse:

Madeline Carey

child:

Barbara Florio

child:

Marcia Florio

child:

David Florio