Background
Cummings, Nancy Boucot was born on February 21, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Arthur B. Guest and Katharine (Rosenbaum) Sturgis.
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Nancy Boucot Cummings
Edit Profilenephrologist biomedical ethicist
Education
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1947; postgraduate, Radcliffe College, 1947; Doctor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1951.
Career
Rotating intern, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1951-1952;
resident in internal medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1952-1954;
research and clinical assistant, Royal Hospital St. Bartholomew, London, 1954-1955;
research and clinical assistant, Manchester (England) Royal Infirmary, 1955;
research fellow in internal medicine, nephrology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1955-1958;
assistant medicine, Peter Bent-Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1955-1958;
research fellow in biochemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1958-1959;
guest worker Laboratory Intermediary Metabolism, National Institute Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Bethesda, 1959-1962;
research medical officer, Walter Reed Army Institute, Washington, 1962-1966;
experimental medicine researcher, United States Navy Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1966-1972;
clinical instructor medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, 1960-1970;
clinical assistant professor medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, 1970-1981;
clinical associate professor medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, 1981-1988;
clinical professor medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, since 1988;
clinical scholar center for clinical ethics, Georgetown University, since 1995;
officer Kidney Disease Collaborative Program, National Institute for Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases (now National.Inst. of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1972-1973;
special assistant to director, National Institute for Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases (now National.Inst. of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1973-1974;
acting associate director for kidney, urologic and blood diseases, National Institute for Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases (now National.Inst. of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1974-1976;
associate director for kidney, urologic, and blood diseases, National Institute for Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases (now National.Inst. of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1976-1984;
associate director for research and assessment, National Institute for Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases (now National.Inst. of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1984-1996. Member core faculty college medicine, associate professor community medicine and family practice Howard U. Nephrological consultant National Institutes of Health, since 1972, United States Navy Hospital, Bethesda, 1966-1972.
Visiting scholar Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, 1992-1993. Associate professor department community & family medicine Howard U. College Medicine, 1994-1996. Research fellow Kennedy Institute Ethics, Georgetown University, since 1994.
Achievements
Membership
Lay reader (now called lay liturgical eucharistic minister) Cathedralof St.Peter and Paul (Washington National Cathedral), Washington, since 1976. Vestry St. Albans Church, Washington, 1975-1979, 89-92. Chairman St. AlbansSunday Forum, 1986-1989, Chairman of Commission medical ethics Diocese (Episcopal) ofWashington, 1990-1994, standing committee, since 1996.
Diocesan delegate St. Albans Church, 1992-1995. Member Standing Commision on Health of General Convention Episcopal Church, since 1992, vice chair, since 1993. Board directors Collington Episcopal Life Care Cmty., 1991-1993.
Board of Governors, board of managers quality care Strategic Planning Commission Washington Home, since 1992, chair credentialing committee since 1996. Member American Society Nephrology, International Society Nephrology, American Federation Clinical Research, National Kidney Foundation (science advisory board 1973-1979, Distinguished Svc. award 1981), Washington Academy Medicine (board directors 1989-1992, vice president 1991-1994, president 1994-1996), European Dialysis and Transplant Association, Executive Women in Government (treasurer 1978-1979), Women in Nephrology (program chairman since 1987, secretary 1990-1992, member women's health seminar committee, since 1992, National Institutes of Health chair 1993-1994, president's visiting committee Mount Vernon College), Cosmos Club (program committee 1992-1995).
Interests
Connections
Married Milton Curtis Cummings Junior, July 1959 (divorced 1985). Children: Christopher Ronald, Jonathan Benton, Susan Sturgis.
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Nationality
American