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Marcia Meldrum
4053 Irving Place Culver City CA 90232 310-876-4312 mlynnmel+gmail.com To use the above email address, replace the "+" with an at sign, (@),. This is done so robots will not pick up the address to use for spam. |
Posted 6/20/16 I won’t make it to the reunion, but have much enjoyed reading about our classmates’ adventures and achievements since leaving WLHS and hope everyone will contribute! As for me, after a somewhat erratic college career, I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1974 and earned an MBA in Health Care Management from Boston University in 1977. Over the ten years that followed, I had interesting jobs managing health care programs in Vermont, Colorado and New York, but I kept missing academia. In 1987, I began a graduate program in the History of Science and Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook and received my PhD there in 1994. After postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA, the National Institutes of Health and the University of Sheffield in the UK, I was invited to return to UCLA in 2001, and have at last taken root here in California. I have a faculty position in the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities and no plans to retire; I love my work. This year I taught courses on the history of 20th century medicine and the history of drug use and drug control policy, and am part of a research team evaluating services for the homeless mentally ill in Los Angeles County. I live in Culver City, a wonderful little enclave in the middle of LA and dabble in photography and writing. If you don’t recognize me in the photo, I’m the one on the lower right. |