Background
Lambert, Robert Archibald was born on October 3, 1883 in Lamison, Alabama, United States. Son of Joe and Lily (George) Lambert.
Lambert, Robert Archibald was born on October 3, 1883 in Lamison, Alabama, United States. Son of Joe and Lily (George) Lambert.
Graduate study Johns Hopkins and Berlin.
Assistant in pathology, College Physicians and Surgical (Columbia), 1909-1911, associate, 1911-1917, acting head department, 1917-1918. Visiting pathologist Montefiore Hospital, New York, 1914-1915, 1917-1918. Resident pathologist Presbyterian Hospital, 1915-1916, visiting pathologist, 1917-1918.
Member Rice scientific expedition to Brazil, 1916-1917.
Director laboratories Near East Relief, Turkey and Syria, 1919-1920. Assistant professor pathology, Yale, 1919-1923.
Associate and research pathologist and bacteriologist, New Haven Hospital. Professor pathological anatomy Faculdade de Medicine de São Paulo, Brazil, 1923-1925.
Professor pathology and director School Tropical Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, under auspices Columbia University, 1926-1928.
Associate director for the Medical Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1948. Consultant Pan-American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office World Health Organization, Washington, 1949-1952. Chairman interim committee, acting president Meharry Medical College, 1950-1952, vice chairman board trustees, 1952-1953, chairman, since 1953.
Sent by Rockefeller Foundation to Central America, summer 1922, to deliver series of lectures at University of Salvador and make a survey of medical schools in Central America
Member of the board visitors Tulane University. Member American Medical Association, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Association Cancer Research, American Society Tropical Medicine, American Society Parasitologists, Society Explt. Biology and Medicine, Society Explt.
Pathology, Yale Medical Society (ex-secretary.