Background
Okerholm, Richard Arthur was born on November 10, 1941 in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Theodore and Elizabeth Anne (Johnston) Okerholm.
chemical company administrator
Okerholm, Richard Arthur was born on November 10, 1941 in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Theodore and Elizabeth Anne (Johnston) Okerholm.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Lowell Technology Institute, 1964. Postgraduate in organic & organometallic chemistry, Lowell Technology Institute, 1964—1965. Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, Boston University, 1970.
Instructor quantitative analysis Lowell Technology Institute, Massachusetts, 1962—1965. Graduate teaching fellow, general chemistry Boston University School Medicine, 1964—1965, graduate teaching fellow organic chemistry, 1965—1966. Research biochemist Parke-Davis & Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1970—1973, senior research biochemist, 1973—1977.
Section head drug metabolism department Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. Subsidiary Dow Chemistry Company, Cincinnati, 1977—1979, head drug metabolism department, since 1979.
Treasurer Fairfield Soccer Association Youth, Ohio, 1979—1980. Member of International Society Study Xerobiotics, American Association Pharmaceutical Science, Society Experimental Biology & Medicine, New York Academy of Sciences, American Pharmaceutical Association, American Society Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, American Society Mass Spectrometry, American Society Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, American Chemical Society, Optimists (board directors 1980-1982), Sigma Xi (research award 1964).
Married Rita V. Hutchinson, June 26, 1965. Children: Heidi Ann, Erik Paul.