Robert Alan Good

Background

Good, Robert Alan was born on May 21, 1922 in Crosby, Minnesota, United States. Son of Roy Homer and Ethel Gay (Whitcomb) Good.

Education

Bachelor, University Minnesota, 1944. Bachelor of Medicine, University Minnesota, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1947.

Doctor of Medicine, University Minnesota, 1947. Doctor of Science(honorary), University Minnesota, 1989. Doctor of Medicine(honorary), University Uppsala, Sweden, 1966.

Doctor of Science(honorary), New York Medical College, 1973. Doctor of Science(honorary), Medical College Ohio, 1973. Doctor of Science(honorary), College Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, 1974.

Doctor of Science(honorary), Hahnemann Medical College, 1974. Doctor of Science(honorary), University Chicago, 1974. Doctor of Science(honorary), St. John's University, 1977.

Doctor of Science(honorary), University Health Science, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, 1978. Doctor of Science(honorary), Miami Children's Hospital, 1986. Doctor of Science(honorary), University Minnesota Medical School, 1989.

Doctor of Science(honorary), University Rome, Rome.

Career

Teaching assistant department anatomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1944-1945; instructor pediatrics, University of Minnesota (Medical School), 1950-1951; assistant professor, University of Minnesota (Medical School), 1951-1953; associate professor, University of Minnesota (Medical School), 1953-1954; American Legion Memorial research professor pediatrics, University of Minnesota (Medical School), 1954-1973; professor microbiology, University of Minnesota (Medical School), 1962-1972; Regents professor pediatrics and microbiology, University of Minnesota (Medical School), 1969-1973; professor, head department pathology, University of Minnesota (Medical School), 1970-1972; intern, University of Minnesota Hospitals, 1947; assistant resident pediatrics, University of Minnesota Hospitals, 1948-1949; president, director, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1973-1980; member, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1973-1981; professor pathology, Sloan-Kettering division Graduate School Medical Sciences Cornell Univercity, 1973-1981; director, Sloan-Kettering division Graduate School Medical Sciences Cornell Univercity, 1973-1980; Adjunct Professor, visiting physician, Rockefeller U., 1973-1981; professor medicine, pediatrics and pathology, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1973-1981; director research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center vice president, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1980-1981; director research, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, 1973-1980; also attending physician departments medicine and pediatrics, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases attending pediatrician, New York Hospital, 1973-1981; member, head cancer research program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 1982-1985; professor pediatrics, research professor medicine, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation professor microbiology and immunology, U. Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1982-1985; attending physician, head division immunology, Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital, 1982-1985; attending physician in internal medicine, Oklahoma Memorial Hospital, 1983-1985; physician-in-chief, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, since 1985; professor, department chairman pediatrics, U. South Florida, St. Petersburg, 1985-1991; professor departments pediatrics, microbiology, immunology and medicine, U. South Florida, St. Petersburg, since 1985; head allergy and clinical immunology, department pediatrics, U. South Florida/All Childrens Hospital, St. Petersburg, since 1985; distinguished research professor, U. South Florida, St. Petersburg, since 1989. Visiting investigator Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City, 1949-1950, assistant physician to Hospital, 1949-1950. Attending pediatrician Hennepin County General Hospital, 1950-1973, consultant, 1960-1973.

Member Unitarian Svc. Commission Medical Exch. Team to France, Germany, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia, 1958.

Consultant Veterans Administration Hospital., Minneapolis, 1959-1960. Consultant, science adviser National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital, Denver, 1964-1969. Member study sections United States Public Health Service, 1952-1969.

Member expert advisory panel on immunology World Health Organization, since 1967. Consultant Merck & Company, New Jersey, 1968-1972, National Cancer Institute, 1973-1974. Member ad hoc committee President's Science Advisory Council on Biological and Med.Sci., 1970, President's Cancer Panel, 1972.

Member Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation awards committee, 1972. Member of advisory committee Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, since 1973. Chairman International Bone Marrow Registry, 1977-1979.

Board directors National Marrow Donor Program, 1987-1994. Foreign advisory Academy Medical Sciences, People's Republic of China, since 1980. Chairman Florida Governor's Task Force on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1985-1987, member, 1988-1994.

Achievements

• Robert Alan Good has been listed as a noteworthy physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Advisory council Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, 1954—1958. Board science advisers Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Medical Research, 1972—1974, Merck Institute Therapeutic Research, 1972—1976. Trustee Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, from 1982.

Board directors Allergy Foundation American, 1973. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Pediatrics (1st honorary fellow section on allergy and immunology), American Academy Arts and Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Academy Multidisciplinary Research, American College of Allergy and Immunology (honorary John P. McGovern Lectureship award 1993, Schering Jaros Lecture award 1993), The Philippine Pediatrics Society (honorary), American College Physicians (award 1993), Royal Society Medicine. Member: American Association of University Professors, National Academy of Sciences, International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry (charter), Pioneer, American Society Transplant Surgeons, International Society Immunopharmacology (founding member), Western Association Immunologists, Transplant Society, International Society Experimental Hematology (award in pioneering leadership and accomplishments 1994), International Society Blood Transfusion, Practitioner's Society, Detroit Surgical Association (McGraw medal 1969), American Clinical and Climatological Association (Gordon Wilson Gold medal 1967), Society for Pediatric Research, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (past president), Reticuloendothelial Society, National Academy of Sciences Institute Medicine (charter), Minnesota State Medical Association, International Society for Transplantation Biology, International Academy Pathology, American Society Transplant Surgeons (honorary), International Society Nephrology, Infectious Disease Society of America (Squibb award 1968), Harvey Society, Central Society Clinical Research (past president), Association American Physicians, American Society Microbiology, American Society Experimental Pathology, American Society Clinical Investigation (past. president), American Rheumatism Association, Northwestern Pediatric Society, Minneapolis Pediatric Society, American Pediatric Society (John Howland award 1987), American Association Immunologists (past president), American Association Anatomists, American Federation Clinical Research, American Association History of Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Noorbibi K. Day, 1986. Children from previous marriage: Robert Michael, Mark Thomas, Alan Maclyn, Margaret Eugenia, Mary Elizabeth.

Father:

Roy Homer Good

Mother:

Ethel Gay (Whitcomb) Good

Spouse:

Noorbibi K. Day