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Riker, William Kay was born on August 31, 1925 in New York City. Son of Walter Franklin and Eleanore Louise (Scafard) Riker.
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William Kay Riker, American Pharmacologist, educator. Recipient Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation award for disting.teaching, 1968; Pennsylvania Plan scholar, 1957-1961; National Institute Neurological Diseases and Blindness special fellow, 1961-1964; United States Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health research grantee, 1958-1983.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1949; Doctor of Medicine Cornell Univercity, 1953.
Career
Intern, 2d Cornell medical division, Bellevue Hospital, 1953-1954;
practice medicine, specializing in pharmacology, Philadelphia, 1954-1969;
practice medicine, specializing in pharmacology, Portland, Oregon, since 1969. Instructor, assistant professor department pharmacology University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, 1954-1961;special fellow department physiology U. Utah School Medicine, 1961-1964. Associate professor, professor, department chairman pharmacology Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, 1964-1969.
Professor, department chairman pharmacology U. Oregon School Medicine, U. Oregon Health Sciences Center, 1969-1991, professor emeritus, since 1992, assistant dean for admissions, 1986-1989. Member neurological disorders program project committee National Institutes of Health, 1975-1979.
Achievements
Membership
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (secretary-treasurer 1978-1981, president 1985-1986), Western Pharmacol. Society (president 1976), Japanese Pharmacol.
Society, Association Medical School Pharmacologists (secretary 1976-1978), Epilepsy Association American, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Foundation (chairman pharmacology-morphology advising committee, science advising committee 1976-1992), Cosmos Club.
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Connections
Married Carmela Louise DePamphilis, December 21, 1947 (deceased 1981). Children: Eleanor Louise, Gainor, Victoria. Married Leena Mela, August 13, 1983.
