Samuel Joseph Fomon

Background

Fomon, Samuel Joseph was born on March 9, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel and Isabel (Sherman) Fomon.

Education

AB cum laude, Harvard University, 1945. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1947. Doctor (honours), University Catolica de Cordoba, Argentina, 1974.

Professor (honorary), University Guadalajara.

Career

Intern Queen's General Hospital, Jamaica, New York, 1947-1948. Resident Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, 1948-1950. Research fellow Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, 1950-1952.

Assistant professor pediatrics University Iowa, Iowa City, 1954-1958, associate professor, 1958-1961, professor, 1961-1993, professor emeritus, from 1993. Honorary professor University Guadalajara, Mexico, 2005. Adjunct professor pediatrics Baylor Medical College, Houston, 2002-2005.

Review committee child health and human development program project National Institutes of Health, 1966-1969, nutrition study section, 1978-1981. Select committee Generally Recognized as Safe Substances Life Science Research Office, 1974-1980. Expert to working group on infant formula United States Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations and World Health Organization, 2003.

Honorary professor University Guadalajara, 2005.

Achievements

• Samuel Joseph Fomon has been listed as a noteworthy pediatrician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Institute Nutrition (president 1989-1990, fellow 1989, Conrad A. Elvehjem award 1990), American Academy Pediatrics (chairman committee nutrition 1960-1963, Borden award 1956, Nutrition award 2004), American Society Clinical Nutrition (president 1981-1982, McCollum award 1979), Federation American Societies Experimental Biology, Midwest Society Pediatrics Research (president 1963-1964, Founder's award 1986), American Dietetic Association (honorary), El Colegio de Pediatrics de Jalisco (honorary).

Connections

Married Betty Lorraine Freeman, August 20, 1948 (divorced April 1978). Children: Elizabeth Ann Fomon Seiberling, Kathleen Lenore Fomon Anderson, David Bruce, Christopher, Mary Susan Fomon. Married Louise G. Thomson, June 27, 1986.

Father:

Samuel Fomon

Mother:

Isabel (Sherman) Fomon

Spouse:

Louise G. Thomson

Spouse:

Betty Lorraine Freeman

child:

Kathleen Lenore Fomon Anderson Fomon

child:

Mary Susan Fomon

child:

Christopher Fomon

child:

Elizabeth Ann Fomon Seiberling Fomon

child:

David Bruce Fomon