Roger J. Porter Medical Graduation Robe, 1968-1968

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Creator:
Porter, Roger John, 1942-
Abstract:
Roger J. Porter (1942- ) graduated from Duke University School of Medicine (DUSOM) in 1968. Porter has worked as a consultant to academia and to the pharmaceutical industry, primarily in the development of anti-seizure drugs. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Services. Contains Porter's medical graduation robe worn when he graduated from DUSOM. Robe dates to 1968.
Extent:
1 Medical Graduation Robe
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0168

Background

Scope and content:

Contains Roger J. Porter's medical graduation robe worn when he graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine. Robe dates to 1968.

Biographical / historical:

Roger John Porter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1942. He graduated from Eckerd College (1964) with a BS in Biology and an MD from Duke University School of Medicine (1968). Porter completed his medical internship at the University of California, San Diego from 1968 to 1969. From 1971 to 1973, Porter was a resident in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco and from 1973 to 1974, he was chief resident in neurology.
Porter works as a consultant to academia and to the pharmaceutical industry, primarily in the development of anti-seizure drugs. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Services (USUHS); he has served as Chief Scientific Officer of the Epilepsy Foundation.
Prior to this work, Porter spent 20 years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in leadership positions including Chief of the Epilepsy Branch, Chief of the Medical Neurology Branch, and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). He left the NIH in 1992 to become Vice President, Clinical Pharmacology at Wyeth and was promoted to Vice President and Deputy Head of Clinical Research at Wyeth Research in January 1998. As VP and Deputy Head of Clinical Research, Porter had worldwide responsibility for numerous clinical programs including 200 persons in Europe, Canada, Latin America, and Asia, 65 in Worldwide Clinical Pharmacology and 40 in Global Health Outcomes Assessment. Porter retired from Wyeth in 2002.
Most of Porter's research has been in epilepsy and the study of antiepileptic drugs; he has published more than 200 articles/chapters and 13 books.
His other leadership positions include Chairman of the White House Committee on Brain and Behavioral Sciences (1990-1992), President, American Epilepsy Society (1989-1990), and Secretary-General of the International League Against Epilepsy (1989-1993). He is also the past President of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics (ASENT). He is Past-Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Service Award from the American Epilepsy Society, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Duke University Medical Center, the USUHS Distinguished Service Medal, and Doctor of Science (Hon) from Eckerd College.
Porter married Candace Leland in 1968. They have 2 children.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2019.001 (transferred by Jill Malley, January 2019)
Processing information:

Processed by Lucy Waldrop: January 2019

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Medical Graduation Robe, 1968.
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Personal Name(s):
Porter, Roger John, 1942-
Corporate Name(s):
Duke University. School of Medicine
Topical Term(s):
Education, Medical.
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[Identification of item], Roger J. Porter Medical Graduation Robe, Duke University Medical Center Archives.