Richard Alan Guthrie

Background

Guthrie, Richard Alan was born on November 13, 1935 in Pleasant Hill, Illinois, United States. Son of Merle Pruitt and Cleona Marie (Weaver) Guthrie.

Education

Associate of Arts, Graceland College, 1955; Doctor of Medicine, U. Missouri, 1960.

Career

Intern, United States Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, California, 1960-1961; director dependent services, United States Naval Hospital, Sangley Point, The Philippines., 1961-1963; assistant instructor, resident in pediatrics, U. Missouri, 1963-1965; National Institutes of Health fellow in endocrinology and metabolism, U. Missouri, 1965-1968; assistant professor, director newborn services, U. Missouri, 1968-1971; associate professor pediatrics, U. Missouri, 1971-1973; professor, department chairman pediatrics, U. Kansas Medical School, Wichita, 1973-1982; executive director, Kansas Regional Diabetes Center, Wichita, 1982-1984; president, Mid-American Diabetes Associations, Wichita, since 1984. Director Robert L. Jackson Diabetes Treatment, Edition and Research Center, since 1985.

Achievements

• Richard Alan Guthrie has been listed as a noteworthy Physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Diabetes Sourcebook: Today's Methods and Ways to Give Yourself the Best Care

    (A bestseller in its first two editions, The Diabetes Sour...)

  • Diabetes Sourcebook: Today s Methods and Ways to Give Yourself the Best Care (3rd ed.)

    (The most comprehensive guide for you to lead a healthy, a...)

  • The Diabetes Sourcebook by Diana W. Guthrie (2003-09-01)

Membership

Member health ministries board Reorganized Church Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints. Member of advisory board Kansas Action for Children, since 1978, Kansas State Diabetes, 1988-1993, 95-. With United States Navy, 1960-1963.

Fellow American Academy Pediatrics, American College Endocrinology. Member American Medical Association, American Diabetes Association (board directors 1972-1977, Outstanding Contribution to Camping award 1992), Kansas Diabetes Association (president 1974, Chairman of the Board 1974-1977, 85-87), Kansas State Medical Society, Sedgewick County Medical Society, American Pediat. Society, Society Pediat.

Research, Wichita Pediat. Society (board directors 1988, president 1990-1992), Lawson Wilkins Pediat. Endocrinology Society, Midwest Society Pediat.Rsch., International Society for Pediat. and Adolescent Diabetes (education com.1995-), American Association Diabetes Educators (board directors 1994-1997), American Association Clinical Endocrinology since 1992), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Diana Fern Worthington, August 18, 1957. Children: Laura, Joyce, Tamara.

Father:

Merle Pruitt Guthrie

Mother:

Cleona Marie (Weaver) Guthrie

Spouse:

Diana Fern Worthington

child:

Laura Guthrie

child:

Tamara Guthrie

child:

Joyce Guthrie