Background
Buchan, Ronald Forbes was born on September 24, 1915 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Robert and Mary Jean (Forbes) Buchan.
Internal and preventive medicine physician
Buchan, Ronald Forbes was born on September 24, 1915 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Robert and Mary Jean (Forbes) Buchan.
Bachelor of Arts New Hampshire, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, McGill University, 1942. CM, McGill University, 1942.
Postgraduate, Princeton University, 1958.
Reporter, Concord Daily Monitor, 1936;
assistant executive secretary, Unemployment Compensation Commission, N.H. Department Labor, 1937;
sanitarian, City of Concord and Eastern Health District N.H., 1938;
chief, medical unit, Bureau Industrial Hygiene, Connecticut Department Health, 1943-1946;
director, Hartford Small Plant Industrial Medical Superior vena cava syndrome, 1946;
clinical director, assistant professor industrial medicine, Yale University Institute Occupational Medicine and Hygiene, 1946-1948;
associate clinical professor industrial medicine, New York University Bellevue Post Graduate Medical School, 1948-1957;
associate medical director, Prudential Insurance Company American, 1948-1949;
director employee health, Prudential Insurance Company American, 1949-1957;
medical director, vice president medical services, Prudential Insurance Company American, Boston, 1957-1974;
consultant occupational medicine, environmental medicine, toxicology, Prudential Insurance Company American, Boston, since 1974. Chief medical director, vice president Mediscreen, 1974-1987. Proprietor Portsmouth (N.H.) Athenaeum.
Associate clinical professor preventive medicine Tufts U. School Medicine, 1958-1974. Visiting lecturer numerous medical schools, 1948-1989.
Chairman research advisory committee Brattleboro (Vermont) Retreat, 1960-1970. Member science advisory board Office Chief Staff United States Air Force, chairman life science human factors facilities, 1960-1965, protocol rank, lieutenant general. Consultant Rhode Island Group Health Association, 1973-1975, Harvard Community Health Plan, 1972-1975.
Board directors Metropolitan Boston chapter American Red Cross, 1971-1973, chairman committee on safety, 1972-1974. Founding member Challenger Space Center, 1987. Trustee Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, Maine, 1988-1991.
Senior assistant surgical, United States Public Health Service, 1943-1946. Surgeon-Lieutenant York (Maine) Militia-Governor's Footguard, since 1971. Fellow American College Occupational and Environmental Medicine (past president), American College Preventive Medicine (chairman committee on clinical procedures 1972-1974), American Academy Occupational Medicine (past president), Academy Medicine New Jersey (past president).
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Industrial Hygiene Association, American Academy Insurance Medicine, American Medical Association (associate editor Archives Environmental Health), Association Internationale Pour La Medicine Du Travail (permanent commission 1965-1974), Massachusetts Medical Society, Ramazzini Society, Academie Europeene des Arts, Sciences et des Lettres, American Association Senior Physicians, New York Academy of Sciences, National Trust History Preservation, Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities, John Buchan Society (Edinburgh), Osler Library. (patron McGill University, Montreal), Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests, North Country Authors and Scientists League (past president), Newcomen Society North America, St. Andrew's Society of Maine, Canada History Society, New Hampshire History Society, Clan Buchan United States of America, Clan Forbes United States of America, University New Hampshire Alumni Association (general awards committee 1987-1990, secretary University New Hampshire class of '36, since 1981, president's council since 2000), McGill University Alumni Association, Friends of Bowdoin College, Friends of Mount Holyoke College, Friends of Middlebury College, Strawberry Bank Museum (patron), Black Heritage Tr. Portsmouth, New Hampshire (patron).
Married Maureen O'Regan, June 17, 1940. Children: Robert Bruce, Joan Dallas (Mistress Fleming), Ian Forbes Morgan.