Last updated on: 6/9/2008 | Author: ProCon.org

Benson B. Roe, MD Biography

Title:
Professor and Chief Emeritus of the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco
Position:
None Found to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
Reasoning:

No position found as of Nov. 2005

Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Professor and Chief Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), 1989-present
  • Former Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF, 1965-89
  • Co-Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF, 1976-87
  • Senior member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF, 1957-86
  • Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF, 1958-76
  • Chief of Thoracic Surgery at both St. Luke’s and St.Joseph’s Hospitals, San Francisco, 1953-58
  • General Surgery, Massachussetts General Hospital
  • Advocate, drug law reform
Education:
  • MD, Harvard Medical School, 1943
Other:
  • Died on Aug. 6, 2012
Quoted in:
  1. Should Illegal Drugs Be Legalized?