Background
Burns, Thomas Wade was born on July 29, 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Thomas and Ina (Treadway) Burns.
Burns, Thomas Wade was born on July 29, 1924 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Thomas and Ina (Treadway) Burns.
Associate of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1943. Bachelor, University Utah, 1945. Doctor of Medicine, University Utah, 1947.
Master of Science in Pharmacology and Biochemistry, University Utah, 1948.
Intern, Boston City Hospital Harvard Medical Unit, 1948-1949; assistant resident teaching fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1949-1950; clinical research fellow medicine, Duke U., Durham, 1950-1951; clinical investigator, metabolic research faculty, Navigation Hospital, Oakland, California, 1951-1952; clinical investigator, metabolic research faculty, Navigation Research Unit, Cairo, Egypt, 1952-1954; research physician metabolic unit, Medical Center, University of California at San Francisco, 1955; member of faculty, U. Missouri, Columbia, since 1955; associate professor, U. Missouri, 1957-1965; professor medicine, U. Missouri, 1965-1992; Stafford Distinguished professor medicine, U. Missouri, 1988; director division endocrinology and metabolism, U. Missouri, 1969-1992; director General Clinical Research Center, U. Missouri, 1974-1975; director, Cosmopolitan International Diabetes Center, 1976-1992; professor emeritus, since 1992. Visiting research worker U. Cambridge, England, 1965-1966.
Board of directors Cosmopolitan International Diabetes Center Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1945, 51-54. Master American College of Physicians (governor Missouri region 1975-1979, regent 1982-1986). American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Diabetes Association, Boone County Medical Society (president 1962), Southern Society Clinical Research, Control Society Clinical Research, Endocrine Society, Missouri Medical Association, American Society Internal Medicine, American Federation Clinical Research, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Joan Marie Fletcher, July 26, 1952. Children: Thomas F., Margaret F., James L., Richard W.