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CURRICULUM VITAE 
NAME : W. French Anderson, M.D. 
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH : December 31, 1936; Tulsa, Oklahoma 
MARITAL STATUS : Married, 1961; no children 
EDUCATION : 
June 1954 - Graduated, Central High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma 
June 1958 - A.B., magna cum laude. Harvard College 
June 1960 - M.A., honors, Cambridge University (England) 
June 1963 - M.D., magna cum laude. Harvard Medical School 
BOARD CERTIFICATION : 1964, Diplomat, National Board of Medical Examiners 
BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT: 
1963 
- 1964 
Intern, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, 
Massachusetts (Straight Pediatric Medicine) 
1964 
- 1965 
Postdoctoral Fellow, American Cancer Society, in the 
Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard 
Medical School 
1965 
- 1967 
Research Associate (Surgeon, USPHS), Laboratory of 
Biochemical Genetics, NHI, NIH 
1967 
- 1968 
Research Medical Officer. Laboratory of Biochemical 
Genetics, NHI, NIH 
1968 
- 1971 
Head, Section on Human Biochemistry, Laboratory of 
Clinical Biochemistry. NHLI. NIH 
1971 
- 1973 
Head, Section on Molecular Hematology, Molecular 
Disease Branch, NHLI, NIH 
1973 
- 1977 
Chief. Molecular Hematology Branch, NHLBI, NIH 
1977 
- Pres. 
Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Hematology, NHLBI, NIH 
MILITARY SERVICE : Commissioned Officer, U.S. Public Health Service, 
July 1965 to June 1967 
SOCIETIES : 
American Federation for Clinical Research 
American Society for Biological Chemists 
American Society for Clinical Investigation 
American Society of Hematology 
American Society of Human Genetics 
Association of American Physicians 
Peripatetic Club 
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