Wojciech Antoni Krotoski, American Physician, educator. Diplomate California State Board Medical Examiners. Recipient Certified Merit, State of Louisiana Board Regents Research and Development Program, 1980; nominee Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine, 1989.
Background
Krotoski, Wojciech Antoni was born on June 20, 1937 in Riga, Latvia. Son of Ludwik Jozef and Leokadia Jozefina (Pawlowska) Krotoski. (parents Polish citizens).
Came to the United States, 1949. Naturalized United States citizen, 1955.
Education
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1960;
Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968;
Master in Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
Career
Commissioned medical officer, United States Public Health Service, 1969;
advanced through grades to medical director, United States Public Health Service, 1984;
staff associate unit human malaria, National Institutes of Health, Atlanta, 1969-1970;
medical officer in charge unit human malaria, National Institutes of Health, Atlanta, 1970-1971;
research associate unit primate malaria, National Institutes of Health, Chamblee, Georgia, 1971-1972;
clinical fellow tropical medicine School Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1972-1974;
resident internal and preventive medicine, United States Public Health Service Hospital, San Francisco, 1972-1974;
assistant chief medicine, assistant chief clinical research, United States Public Health Service Hospital, New Orleans, 1975-1978;
chief tropical infectious disease research program, United States Public Health Service Hospital, New Orleans, 1975-1981;
chief clinical research, United States Public Health Service Hospital, New Orleans, 1978-1981;
clinical associate professor department tropical medicine School Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, 1975-1986;
clinical associate professor department tropical medicine and medical parasitology Sch.Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, 1978-1984;
clinical associate professor infectious diseases School Medicine, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, since 1978;
associate member of faculty School Graduate Studies Medical Center, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, since 1980;
clinical associate professor international and tropical medicine School Medicine, clinical associate professor medical parasitology, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, since 1984;
research physician Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1993-1995;
director National Ambulatory Hansen's Disease Program, Bureau Health Care Delivery and Assistance, United States Public Health Service, 1990-1991;
physician microbiologist, immunologist, National Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, Louisiana, 1981-1983;
deputy chief laboratory research branch, National Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, Louisiana, 1983-1985;
research physician laboratory research branch, GWL Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, 1985-1990;
acting chief pathology research department laboratory research branch, GWL Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, 1992-1993;
retired, United States Public Health Service, 1995. Adjunct Professor tropical medicine School Veterinary Medicine Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1987-1994, Adjunct Professor pathology, since 1993. Member Marshall Islands health survey team Brookhaven (New York) National Laboratory, 1977-1982, central clinical investigations committee Bureau Medical Superior vena cava syndrome United States Public Health Service, 1978-1981.
Peer review panelistcholera research development program Board Regents, State of Louisiana, 1980-1981. Consultant leprosy vaccine immunology leprosy science working group World HealthOrgn., Geneva, Switzerland, 1982, 85. Member Hansen's disease research advising committee bureau health care delivery and assistance United States Public Health Service, 1983-1989.
Research affiliate Delta Regional Primate Research Center, Tulane University, Covington, Louisiana, 1984-1987. Participant New Orleans Infectious Disease Conference, since 1984. Presenter in field.
Achievements
Wojciech Antoni Krotoski has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.
Membership
Fellow Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Member American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (science program committee 1978-1979), United States Public Health Service Professional Association (science program chairman 1989), Louisiana-Mississippi Infectious Diseases Society, National Right-to-Life, Federation of Louisiana Right-to-Life Organisation (president), Baton Rouge Right-to-Life, American Life League, Physician's ad hoc committee for Truth, Southea. Society Parasitologists.
Connections
Married Danuta Mary Gwozdziowski (annulled). 1 child, Aleksandra Krystyna. Married Judith Ann Goins, August 2, 1985;1 stepchild, John Alfred Bell IV.
Recipient Certified Merit, State of Louisiana Board Regents Research and Development Program, 1980. Nominee Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine, 1989.
Recipient Certified Merit, State of Louisiana Board Regents Research and Development Program, 1980. Nominee Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine, 1989.