Background
Page, Robert Griffith was born on March 25, 1921 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Crozer and Elizabeth (Griffith) Page.
Page, Robert Griffith was born on March 25, 1921 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Crozer and Elizabeth (Griffith) Page.
Graduate, St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., 1939; Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1943; Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1945.
Intern Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, 1945-1946;
resident medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1948-1949;
practice medicine, specializing in internal medicine, Chicago, 1953-1968;
assistant instructor pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1949-1950;
instructor, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1950-1951;
associate pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1951-1953;
visiting professor pharmacology, U. Rangoon (Burma) Medical College, 1951-1953;
assistant professor medicine, University of Chicago Medical School, 1953-1958;
associate professor, University of Chicago Medical School, 1958-1968;
assistant dean medical education, University of Chicago Medical School, 1957-1963;
associate dean division biological science, University of Chicago Medical School, 1963-1968;
dean, University of Chicago Medical School, 1968-1974;
professor medicine and pharmacology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, 1968-1978;
Adjunct Professor, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, 1978-1985;
dean emeritus, professor emeritus, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, since 1985;
Adjunct Professor community and family medicine, Dartmouth Medical College, since 1978;
Adjunct Professor clinical medicine, Dartmouth Medical College, 1986-1989;
lecturer department medicine, Yale University, 1980-1981. President staff Springfield (Vermont) Hospital, 1978-1980. Co-medical director Mount ValleyHealth Center, 1977-1980.
Chief staff Hospital Medical College Ohio, 1970-1972, provost, 1972-1974. On leave as staff physician Mountain Valley Health Center, Londonderry, Vermont, 1976-1977. Private practice medicine, since 1980.
Board directors Vermont Professional Review Organisation, 1985-1987.
Member general research support program advisory committee National Institutes of Health, 1973-1977, chairman biomedical research development grant committee, 1977. Honorary trustee Chicago Zoological Society. Zoning administrator Town of Landgrove, Vermont, since 1988.
Chairman planning commission, Landgrove, since 1988. Justice of peace Town of Landgrove, since 1990. Alternate commissioner Environmental Commission District 8, State of Vermont Lieutenant Medical Corps (junior grade), United States Naval Reserve, 1946-1948.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (council 1973-1975, committee fellowship 1973-1975), American College Cardiology (emeritus), American College of Physicians. Member American Medical Association, American Federation Clinical Research, American Heart Association (emeritus fellow council clinical cardiology, chairman medical education committee, board directors, executive committee 1967-1970), Vermont Heart Association (research committee), American Society Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapeutics, Vermont Lung Association (trustee), Association American Medical Colleges, Central Clinical Research Club, Central Society Clinical Research, Ohio Medical Society (committee science work 1969-1977), Northwest Ohio Heart Association (director 1969-1975, research committee 1968-1977), Institute Medicine Chicago, Vermont Lung Association (trustee 1978-1985), Sigma Xi (president Medical College Ohio chapter 1974-1976).
Married Mary Elizabeth Kent, September 20, 1947 (deceased January 1987). Children– Robert Griffith, Elizabeth Wilmer, Mary Kent. Married Anne Marie Stein, October 19, 1987 (divorced April 1990).