Researching Richard Root
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 977 people with the Root surname? In that year Root was ranked number 2612 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Richard means "strong ruler" and is of German origin.
Records of Richard Root on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Richard Root and the Root Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 1096 people with the Root surname in the UK? Root is now ranked number 3019 for popularity in the UK. |
Root Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 21268 people with the Root surname in the USA? Root is ranked number 150 for popularity in the USA. |
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Richard Root
Richard K. Root (1 December 1937 – March 19, 2006) was the former Chairman of Medicine at Yale University, Chairman of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, and Chairman of Medicine at University of Washington. He also launched the Infectious Disease division at the University of Pennsylvania while a professor there in 1971.
Root received his MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1963 and did his Residency and Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1963-1965. He served as Chief Resident and Instructor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington from 1968 to 1969.
After leaving the University of Pennsylvania, Root worked on infectious diseases at Yale University and served as vice chairman of medicine. In 1982 he was voted medical school teacher of the year. He subsequently became the Chief of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He later became chief of medicine at Harborview 1991 and became an emeritus professor in 2002. He was a former president of the American Federation of Clinical Research, editor in chief of a textbook, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and, from 1986 to 1991, director of the National Institutes of Health's AIDS Advisory Committee.
In 2006, he was invited by the University of Pennsylvania Infectious Disease Department to assist a project in Botswana. He was killed by a crocodile attack while on a wildlife tour of the Limpopo River. He was in the lead canoe with a guide when a 13-foot crocodile pulled him overboard. While at least one article has aligned the story to the popular notion of unstable dugout canoes turning over, the trip pictures taken by his wife reveal Root and his guide riding in a sound commercially manufactured vessel. Witnesses state that the canoe shook but was not overturned.
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