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Joy, Robert John Thomas was born on April 5, 1929 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Angelo Francois and Mary Frances (Egan) Joy.
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Joy, Robert John Thomas was born on April 5, 1929 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Angelo Francois and Mary Frances (Egan) Joy.
Bachelor of Science, University Rhode Island, Kingston, 1950. Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1954. Master of Arts, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965.
Certified, Armed Forces Staff College, 1968. Doctor in Military Medicine (honorary), University of Health Sciences, 2009.
Commissioned First lieutenant, United States Army, 1954; advanced through grades to colonel, United States Army, 1970; intern, then resident, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, 1954-1958; assistant director environmental medicine, United States of America Medical Research Laboratory, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1959-1961; commander, United States of America Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts, 1961-1962; chief commander, United States of America Medical Research Team, Saigon, Vietnam, 1965-1966; chief medical research division, Office of Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington, 1968-1969; deputy medical and life science, Office of Director Defense Research and Engineering, Washington, 1969-1971; deputy director, then director, Walter Reed Institute Research, Washington, 1971-1976; professor, chairman military medicine, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, Washington, 1976-1981; professor, chairman medical history, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, Washington, 1981-1996; professor emeritus, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, Washington, since 1996; retired, United States Army, 1981. Honorary member of faculty Industrial College Armed Forces, Washington, 1990. Member of faculty United States Air Force School Aerospace Medicine, since 1992.
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Fellow: College Physicians Philadelphia, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Physicians (Davies award Medical Humanism 2002). Member: American Physiological Society, American Association History Medicine (council 1979-1981) (William Osler medal 1954), Osler Society (board governors 1986-1989).
Married Beverly June Boxer, July 5, 1952 (divorced May 1984). Children: Robert L.F., Lisa. Married Janet Lucille Brady, July 12, 1985.