Background
Chalmers, Thomas Clark was born on December 8, 1917 in Forest Hills, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Clark and Elizabeth (Ducat) Chalmers.
physician educational and research administrator
Chalmers, Thomas Clark was born on December 8, 1917 in Forest Hills, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Clark and Elizabeth (Ducat) Chalmers.
Student, Yale University, 1936—1939. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1943.
Intern, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1943-1944;
research fellow, New York University Malaria Research Unit, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1944-1945;
resident, Harvard Medical Services of Boston City Hospital, 1945-1947;
private practice internal medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947-1953;
assistant physician, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, 1947-1953;
chief medical services, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, 1955-1968;
assistant chief medical director for research and education, VA, Washington, 1968-1970;
associate director clinical care National Institutes of Health, also director clinical center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1970-1973;
president, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1973-1983;
professor medicine, dean, Mount Sinai School Medicine, New York City, 1973-1983;
Distinguished Service professor, director clinical trials unit, Mount Sinai School Medicine, New York City, 1983-1986;
president emeritus, dean emeritus, Mount Sinai School Medicine, New York City, 1983-1995;
visiting professor, Harvard School Public Health, 1983-1986;
lecturer department health policy and management, Technology Assessment Group, Harvard School Public Health, 1986-1995;
distinguished physician, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital., 1987-1992;
founder, chairman, Metaworks Inc., Boston
president, Meta Analysis Consulting Inc., West Lebanon, N.H. Professor medicine Tufts U., 1961-1968, George Washington University, 1970-1973. Mem.ethics advisory board, special consultant National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 1980.
Lecturer department medicine, Tufts U., 1987-1993, department epidemiology and biostatistics Boston University, 1987-1995. Visiting Regents professor statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1990. Adjunct Professor medicine Tufts U., 1992-1995, Dartmouth School Medicine, 1992-1995.
Board of directors New England Home for Little Wanderers, 1960-1965. Board regents National Library Medicine, 1978-1979. Trustee Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1987-1995, Chairman of the Board, 1983-1987.
Served as captain, Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1953-1955. Member American Association Study Liver Diseases (president 1959), American Clinical and Climatological Association, American College of Physicians, American Federation Clinical Research, American Gastroenterological Association (president 1969), American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians, New York Academy of Medicine, Institute Medicine of National Academy Sciences, International Physiciansfor the Prevention of Nuclear War, Society for Clinical Trials (president 1987), Eastern Gut Club, Physicians for Social Responsibility, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Frances Crawford Talcott, August 31, 1942. Children: Elizabeth Ducat Chalmers Wright, Frances Talcott Chalmers Smith, Thomas Clark, Richard Matthew.