Norman Howard Bell

Background

Bell, Norman Howard was born on February 11, 1931 in Gainesville, Georgia, United States. Son of Kenneth Rush and Henrietta Maria (Howard Rankin) Bell.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Emory University, 1951; Doctor of Medicine Duke U., 1955.

Career

Intern, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1955-1956; resident, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1956-1957; clinical associate, National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1957-1959; member of staff clinical endocrinology branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1959-1963; associate in medicine, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1963-1965; assistant professor medicine, Northwestern University School Medicine, Chicago, 1965-1968; associate professor, Indiana U. Med School, Indianapolis, 1968-1971; professor, Indiana U. Med School, 1971-1979; professor medicine and pharmacology, Medical University of Southern California, Charleston, since 1979; distinguished university professor, Medical University of Southern California, Charleston, since 1998. Member general medicine B study section National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1982-1986, chairman, 1985-1986. Trustee National Osteoporosis Foundation, Washington, 1984-1988, chairman sci.adv. board, 1985-1988.

Member special grants review committee National Institute Arthritis, Musculo-Skeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1990-1995, chairman, 1993-1994.

Achievements

• Norman Howard Bell has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, endocrinologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with United States Public Health Service, 1957-1963. Member American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Bone and Mineral Research(secretary-treasurer 1978-1985, president 1986-1987, Shirley Hohl Svc. award 1998), American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Association American Physicians, Association Osteobiology (councillor since 1997), Endocrine Society, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Claude Handy, June 27, 1959 (deceased 1967). Children: Douglas Howard, Julianne Rankin. Married Mary Virginia Baughman, August 24, 1968 (divorced July 1972).

Married Ledlie Laird Dinsmore, December 16, 1972. 1 child, Bayard Gardiner.

Father:

Kenneth Rush Bell

Mother:

Henrietta Maria (Howard Rankin) Bell

Spouse:

Ledlie Laird Dinsmore

Spouse:

Claude Handy

Spouse:

Mary Virginia Baughman

child:

Douglas Howard Bell

child:

Bayard Gardiner Bell

child:

Julianne Rankin Bell