Dr. Robert D. Myers, age 79, Professor Emeritus of East Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina, passed away at the Lehigh Hope Hospice, Lehigh, Florida, on July 16, 2011.
He was born October 25, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the late Clarence N. and Martha L. Myers. He attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. degree from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania in 1953, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1954 and 1956 respectively. On December 20, 1953, he was united in marriage to Marjorie A. Fretz in Souderton, Pennsylvania.
In 1956, Bob and Margie moved to Hamilton, New York, where he served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Colgate University, as well as Director of its Research Council. In 1960, he spent one year at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurophysiology. He moved his family to London, England in 1963, where he spent two years as a visiting scientist in Physiology and Pharmacology at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill; in 1969 he returned to Mill Hill as Visiting Professor of Pharmacology. In 1965, he was named Professor of Psychological and Biological Sciences at Purdue University, serving as Director of the Psychobiology and Neurobiology Programs from 1968 to 1978. In 1975 he was a visiting Professor at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. In 1978, he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and from 1979 to 1987 served as Director of the Bowles Biomedical Research Laboratory at U.N.C. In 1987, he was named joint Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatric Medicine at the East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina. He was also Director of the Research Division at E.C.U.'s Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies. In 1996, the University Board of Trustees named him Distinguished Research Professor of Pharmacology. Bob retired from E.C.U. in 1998, at age 67, as Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of Pharmacology. Bob and Margie have been living in Fort Myers, Florida since January, 2011. > > > > Read More
