Background
Russell, Robert Mitchell was born on April 9, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Stanley Gordon and Martha Lillian (Johnson) Russell.
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Robert Mitchell Russell
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Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, 1963; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1967.
Career
Intern, University of Chicago, 1967-1969;
resident, University of Chicago, 1971-1973;
National Institutes of Health fellow gastroenterology, University of Chicago, 1973-1975;
from assistant to associate professor medicine, U. Maryland. School Medicine, Baltimore, 1974-1981;
associate professor medicine, Tufts U., Boston, 1981-1988;
director human studies USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts U., Boston, since 1981;
associate director USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts U., Boston, since 1983;
senior scientist USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts U., Boston, since 1987;
professor medicine and nutrition, Tufts U., Boston, since 1988;
staff physician department medicine section gastroenterology and clinical nutrition, New England Medical Center Hospitals, Boston, since 1981. Chairman science advisory board National Dairy Council, Chicago, 1987-1991.
Member pretest committee American Board Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, 1990-1994.
Membership
Member Hyde Park Community Conference, Chicago, 1972-1974, Famine Policy Center Committee, Boston, 1985-1988. Member Southern Iraq consultant team United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, New York City, 1991. Major United States Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam.
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Gastroenterological Society, American Society Nutrition Scientists (graduate nutrition education committee 1989-1990), American College Nutrition (Grace Goldsmith award 1994), American Society Clinical Nutrition, Society for International Nutrition Research.
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Married Sharon Stanton, August 28, 1965. Children: Kimberley, Brooke.
Awards
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Recipient Global Medicine award Association United States Army, 1971, research award Chicago Society Gastroenterology, 1974, Research Development award VA Career Development Program, 1975-1978.Recipient Global Medicine award Association United States Army, 1971, research award Chicago Society Gastroenterology, 1974, Research Development award VA Career Development Program, 1975-1978.