Owen Leslie Wood

Background

Wood, Owen Leslie was born on August 20, 1936 in Westbrook, Maine, United States. Son of Owen Ellis and Dora Adell (Rines) Wood.

Education

AB magna cum laude, Bates College, 1958. Master in Philosophy, Yale University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1972.

Career

Commissioned United States Naval Reserve, 1967, advanced through grades to Commander, 1981. Head virology division United States Navy Medical Research Unit #5, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1973-1977, United States Navy Medical Research Unit #3, Cairo, 1979-1983. Virologist airborne disease division United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, 1983-1987.

Navy liason officer to the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, Fort Detrick, since 1987. Assistant professor microbiology University Nebraska, Lincoln, 1970-1973. Research associate Yale University, New Haven, 1977-1979.

Virologist diagnostic branch Naval Medical Research Institute, Rockville, since 1989. Assistant professor Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, since 1989.

Achievements

• Owen Leslie Wood has been listed as a noteworthy virologist, microbiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Vestryman St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Addis Ababa, 1974-1977. Scoutmaster, cubmaster Boy Scouts American, American Community School, Cairo, 1980-1983. Member Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Society Microbiology, American Society Virology, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Nancy Jean Belden, June 23, 1962. Children: Jean Leslie, Betsy Caroline, Andrew Owen.

Father:

Owen Ellis Wood

Mother:

Dora Adell (Rines) Wood

Spouse:

Nancy Jean Belden

child:

Andrew Owen Wood

child:

Betsy Caroline Wood

child:

Jean Leslie Wood