Robert Ernest Tranquada

1930-1922

Robert Tranquada died December 4, 2022. Tranquada’s career in medicine, public health, and medical education spanned six decades. Beginning as a diabetes specialist on the faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) Medical School, he became the first head of the South Central Multipurpose Health Services Center (now the Watts Healthcare Corporation) in the aftermath of the Watts Uprising in 1965 and later medical director of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. From 1979 to 1986 he served as chancellor and dean of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, before returning to California as dean of what is now the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

Pomona, CA
United States

Elected to AAS
October 1983

AAS Proceedings