Background
Crofford, Oscar Bledsoe was born on March 29, 1930 in Chickahsa, Oklahoma, United States.
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Oscar Bledsoe Crofford
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AB, Vanderbilt University, 1952; Doctor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 1955.
Career
Intern medicine, Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1955-1956;
assistant resident, Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1956-1957;
United States Public Health Service research fellow clinical physiology, 1959-1962;
resident in medicine, 1962-1963;
United States Public Health Service fellow clinical biochemistry, U. Geneva, 1963-1965;
from assistant professor to associate professor, 1965-1974;
professor medicine, Vanderbilt University School Medicine, since 1974;
associate professor molecular physiology and biophysics, Vanderbilt University School Medicine, 1970-1994;
professor, since 1994. Investor Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1965-1971. Member metabolism study section National Institutes of Health, 1970-1974, chairman 1972-1974.
Addison B. Scoville Junior chair diabetes & metabolism Vanderbilt University, since 1973, division head diabetes & metab., department medicine, since 1973, director Diabetes-Endocrin. Center, 1973-1978; chairman National.Commn. Diabetes, 1975-1976; director Diabetes Research & Training Center, 1978-1993.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Diabetes Association (president 1981, Lilly award 1970, Charles H. Best award 1976, Banting medal 1982, Scoville award 1987, Outstanding Educator award 1989), American Physiological Society, Endocrine Society, American Society Clin.Investigation, Association American Physicians.
Connections
Married, 1957; 3 children.
