Moore, Ward "Bill" Oral History Interview November 8, 2000
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2017-06-06
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Ward “Bill” Moore attended the University of Illinois in Urbana. He earned an AB in Zoology in 1948 and a Ph.D. in Physiology in 1952 from the University of Illinois. He began his professional career at Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater, OK. He later moved to Indiana University in Bloomington. Rising through the academic ranks at Indiana University, Bill retired as Associate Dean of the School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Science Program in Bloomington, a successful MD/Ph.D. program that he directed for twelve years from 1977 to 1989. He retired in 1989 as Professor Emeritus of
Physiology and Biophysics.
The Moore family lived in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1963-64, where he was visiting professor at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, and later they lived in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1968-71, where, as a staff member for the Rockefeller Foundation, he was visiting professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at the Faculty of Science at Mahidol University School of Medicine. In 2001, HRH Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, the Crown Princess of Thailand, personally conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa in recognition of Bill’s vital contributions to Mahidol University.
During his career Bill helped train masters and doctoral students in the United States, Pakistan, and Thailand, and many have achieved professional distinction and leadership positions in their respective institutions. He published many peer-reviewed research papers on the physiology of the pituitary gland and the kidney. He also authored several chapters in all five editions of a well-respected and widely used physiology textbook commonly referred to as Selkurt’s Physiology, published between 1962 and 1984 by colleagues at Indiana University.