Thomas Christopher Hall

Background

Hall, Thomas Christopher was born on November 26, 1921 in New York City. Son of John Clarence and Theresa (McDonald) Hall.

Education

Student, Harvard University, 1944; Doctor of Medicine magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1949.

Career

Intern Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1949-1950. Assistant resident Massachusetts General Hospital, 1951-1953. Assistant in medicine Harvard Medical School, 1955, instructor, 1957.

Director oncology Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, 1957-1962. Senior research associate in biochemisty Brandeis University, Waltham, 1959, adjunct associate professor biochemistry, 1961. Director Harvard Cancer Commission Chemotherapy Unit Pondville Hospital, 1959-1968.

Assistant physician Children's Hospital Medical Center, 1961, research associate in pathology, 1961, senior associate in medicine, 1963, assistant professor medicine, 1965. Co-chairman eastern cooperative oncology group National Institutes of Health, 1961—1972. Senior associate tumor therapy, physician-in-chief adult division Children's Cancer Research Foundation, 1961.

Chief clinical and biochemicalpharmacology Children's Cancer Research Foundation, 1964. Associate in medicine, chief medical oncology Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1964—1968. Teaching associate Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 1967.

Physician Boston Hospital for Women, 1967. Director division oncology, professor medicine and pharmacology University Rochester, New York, 1968-1972. Physician Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, 1968-1972.

Associate director therapeutics, professor medicine and biochemistry, physician-in-chief University of Southern California Cancer Hospital and Research Center University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1972-1975. Affiliate staff member Hospital of Good Samaritan Medical Center, 1973-1975. Director Cancer Control Agency of British Columbia, Canada, 1975-1976.

Professor faculty of medicine, departments medicine and pharmacology University British Columbia, Vancouver, 1975-1977. Scientist Pasadena Foundation for Medical Research, California, 1977-1978. Clinician Tumor Clinic Medical Group, Inc., 1977-1978.

Clinical professor medicine University California, Irvine, 1978-1991. Professor medicine, pharmacology University Hawaii, Honolulu, 1978. Physician Queen's Medical Center, 1983.

Director cancer center Programs in Cancer Control Education and Outreach University Hawaii, 1978. Vice president clinical affairs Center Molecular Medicine and Immunology, Newark, 1987-1991. Director adult oncology-hematology United Hospital Medical Center, 1990-1992.

Consultant oncology Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital, 1979. Member staff, consultant oncology Queen's Medical Center, 1980. Consultant St. Francis Hospital, Honolulu, 1980, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, 1983.

Advisor community cancer program St. Joseph Hospital, Bellingham, 1995. Principal investigator Cascadia Clinical Trials Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, 1994-2005, National Cancer Institute Southwest Oncology Group Select Trial, 2000-2005. Research professor medicine American Cancer Society, 1970-1975.

Director New Jersey Cancer Center, 1989-1991.

Achievements

• Thomas Christopher Hall has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, American Association for Cancer Education, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy, Endocrine Society, International Society Chemotherapy, Massachusetts Medical Society, Society forCryobiology, Western Association Physicians, Western Association Gynecological Oncology (honorary), Canada Oncologic Society, United States Public Health Service Research Society (honorary), Royal College Physicians and Surgeons Canada (honorary), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Interests

• Travel, camping.

Connections

Married Lorina Amanda Friesen, July 30, 1978. Children: Christopher, Thomas, Seth, Amity, Bronwen, Nathan, Jinny, Nicholas.

Father:

John Clarence Hall

Mother:

Theresa (McDonald) Hall

Spouse:

Lorina Amanda Friesen

child:

Jinny Hall

child:

Thomas Hall

child:

Amity Hall

child:

Nicholas Hall

child:

Christopher Hall

child:

Nathan Hall

child:

Bronwen Hall

child:

Seth Hall