Background
West, Louis Jolyon was born on October 6, 1924 in Brooklyn. Son of Albert Jerome and Anna (Rosenberg) W.
West, Louis Jolyon was born on October 6, 1924 in Brooklyn. Son of Albert Jerome and Anna (Rosenberg) W.
Bachelor of Science, University Minnesota, 1946; Bachelor of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 1948; Doctor of Medicine, University Minnesota, 1949; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1990.
Chief psychiatry service, United States Air Force Hospital, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, 1952-1956;
professor psychiatry, head department psychiatry, neurology and behavioral science, U. Oklahoma School Medicine, 1954-1969;
chief mental health section, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 1956-1969;
consultant psychiatry, Oklahoma City Veterans Administration Hospital., Tinker Air Force Base Hospital, 1956-1969;
fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1966-1967;
professor psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1969;
department chairman psychiatry and biobehavioral science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969-1989;
director, Neuropsychiat. Institute at University of California at Los Angeles Center for Health Sciences, 1969-1989;
psychiatrist-in-chief, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, 1969-1989. National consultant psychiatry Surgeon General United States Air Force, 1957-1962.
Consultant psychiatry Brentwood and Sepulveda VA hospitals, since 1969. National advisory mental health county(past) National Institute of Mental Health, professional advisory county NAMH, United States Air Force Office Science Research, United States Public Health Service, Virginia, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Academy Sciences, National Research Council, National Institute Medicine, United States Army Medical Research and Development Panel, American Medical Association, American Family Foundation (advisory board) National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (advisory board), White House Conference Civil Rights, international advisory board Israel Center for Psychobiology, Jerusalem Mental Health Center.
Past trustee University of California at Los Angeles Foundation. Board directors Caring For Children, Alcoholism Council California. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College Neuropsychopharmacology (founding), American College Psychiatrists, American Psychiatric Association (life), Society Behavioral Medicine.
Member American Medical Association, American Academy Psychiatry and Law, Society Biological Psychiatry, American Orthopsychiat Association, American Academy Psychoanalysis, Association Psychophysiol. Study Sleep, American Psychosomatic Society, American Psychopath. Association, American Psychological Association, Association Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, National Academy Religion and Mental Health (founding), National Council on Alcoholism, Pavlovian Society (president 1975), Society Biological Psychiatry, Society Psychophysiol.
Research, Society Professors Psychiatry (president 1963), Society Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.
Married Kathryn Louise Hopkirk, April 29, 1944. Children— Anne Kathryn, Mary Elizabeth, John Stuart.