Frank Falkner
Frank Tardrew Falkner (October 27, 1918 – August 21, 2003) was a British-born American biologist and pediatrician known for his expertise on
child development. After graduating from the
University of Cambridge with a
medical degree in 1945, he worked at
Great Ormond Street Hospital in
London,
England, prior to joining the faculty of the
University of Louisville School of Medicine in January 1956. He remained on the faculty of the University of Louisville until 1968, initially serving as an assistant professor of child health there, and eventually rising to chair their Department of Pediatrics. While on the faculty of this university, he started the
Louisville Twin Study in 1957. He joined the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as program director, later becoming an associate director there. In 1970, he became director of the
Fels Longitudinal Study of Physical Growth and Development at the
Fels Research Institute. He then served on the faculties of
Georgetown University, the
University of Cincinnati, and the
University of Michigan before joining the faculty of the
University of California, Berkeley and
University of California, San Francisco in 1981. He was elected to the
Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences in 1985. His positions within the
University of California system included serving as chair of the Department of Social and Administrative Health Sciences from 1983 to 1987 and of the Maternal and Child Health Program from 1981 to 1989, both at the University of California, Berkeley. He also held a joint appointment in the department of pediatrics in the University of California, Berkeley, and helped to create the Joint Health and Medical Sciences Program connecting the two campuses. He died in his sleep on August 21, 2003, at his home in
Berkeley, California, after suffering from
prostate cancer.
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