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Digitized from Box 10 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 21, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Donald Sharp
Frederickson, of Bethesda, Maryland, to be Director of the National
Institutes of Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
He will succeed Robert S. Stone who resigned effective January 31, 1975.
Since 1974, Dr. Frederickson has been the President of the Institutes
of Medicine, Washington, D. C. He was associated with the National
Heart and Lung Institute from 1953 until 1974, serving as Clinical
Associate, and late a member of the Senior Research Staff of the
Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism. He became
Clinical Director of the Institute in 1961 and then Head, of the Section
on Molecular Diseases in the Laboratory of Metabolism in 1962. In
1966 he became the Director of the National Heart and Lung Institute.
During the period from 1966 to 1974, he was the Chief of the Molecular
Disease Branch of the Institute and later the Director of Intramural
Research.
Dr. Frederickson was born on August 8, 1924, in Canon City, Colorado.
He received his B. S degree from the University of Colorado in 1946
and his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1949.
Dr. Frederickson is married to the former Henrietta Eekhof and
they have two children.
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