Background
Ockner, Robert Keith was born on July 30, 1936 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lee and Sara E. (Weis) Ockner.
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Robert Keith Ockner
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Bachelor of Arts, Pomona College, 1957. Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1961. Diplomate American Board InternalMedicine, American Board Gastroenterology.
Career
Intern, then resident Boston City Hospital, 1961-1963, 65-66. Clinical associate National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1963-1965. Fellow in gastroenterology Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1966-1968.
Assistant then associate professor medicine University of California-San Francisco, 1968-1972, 72-76, professor, since 1976, chief of gastroenterology, since 1983, director Liver Center, since 1983.
Association editor Journal Lipid Research, 1972-1976. Editor Gastroenterology, 1981-1986.
Trustee, Reed Union School District, Tiburon, California, 1973-1977, president, 1975-1976. National Institutes of Health grantee, since 1969.
Recipient Western Gastroenterology Research prize, 1980.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American College of Physicians.
Connections
Children: James, Matthew, Peter.
