Background
Meldrum, Marcia Lynn was born on November 28, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Robert Fuller and Judith G. Meldrum.
(Opioid use for the alleviation of pain can prove problema...)
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Meldrum, Marcia Lynn was born on November 28, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Robert Fuller and Judith G. Meldrum.
Bachelor, University Minnesota, 1974. Master of Business Administration, Boston University, 1977. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1989.
Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1994.
Administrator department obstetrics-gynecology University Vermont, Burlington, 1977—1981. Administrator department obstetrics-gynecology University Colorado Medical Center, Denver, 1981—1986. Administrator department medicine Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York, 1986—1987.
Co-director University of California at Los Angeles History Pain Collection, since 1997. Researcher University of California at Los Angeles Pain Study Group, since 2001. Researcher Johns Hopkins oral history medical genetics project University of California at Los Angeles, since 2001.
Historian American Pain Society, Glenview, Illinois, since 1997. Lecturer department history University of California at Los Angeles, California, 1994—1998, 2001—2003. Consultant Economic and Social Research Council Innovative Health Technology Project University Sheffield, 2001—2004.
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Member of American Association History Medicine, International Association Study Pain, American Pain Society.