Boyd Campbell, M.D., Ph.D.
Faculty, Basic Science

Dr. Boyd Campbell is a Professor of Anatomy. He came to SCNM in 1996. He received his B.S. in Zoology in 1955, M.S. in Bacteriology in 1957, M.D. in Medicine in 1963, and Ph.D. in Anatomy in 1965, all from the University of Illinois.

Prior to coming to SCNM, Dr. Campbell held the positions of Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland from 1989-1994; Research Professor of Neurology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences from 1983-1994; Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 1980-1994; Professor and Director, Department of Anatomy, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, 1977-1979; Clinical Associate Professor of Anatomy, University of California, Irvine; Visiting Faculty, California Institute of Technology, 1977-1979; Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Neural Sciences and of Anatomy and Physiology (tenured), Indiana University, 1967-1974.

Dr. Campbell served in the U.S. Army as Second Lieutenant, MSC, USAR, 1962-1963; First Lieutenant, MSC, USAR, 1963-1964; Captain, AUS, 1964-1967 (resigned); and Lieutenant Colonel and then Colonel, MC, RA, 1979-1996 (retired).

Past and present professional memberships include: Sigma Xi (the national research honorary society); Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity; American Association of Anatomists; Cajal Club; Society for Neuroscience where he was the organizer and first president of the Indiana University, Bloomington Chapter, Division of Morphology; American Society of Zoologists where he was a member of the advisory panel for the D. Dwight Davis award and chairman of the nominating committee; J.B. Johnston Club ( the society for comparative neurobiologists) he was a member of the Program Committee, 1991-1994 which actually runs the organization, as there are no officers. Currently Dr. Campbell serves as a member of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science; the vice-president of the Southwest Paleontological Society; the Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution; and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Dr. Campbell is also the current president of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Museum of Natural History Foundation in Mesa, Ariz.

Dr. Campbell was a member of the editorial board of the journal Brain, Behavior and Evolution for 13 years. He reviewed grant proposals for the National Science Foundation for approximately 10 years, and was a member of an AIBS committee working for NASA to choose experiments to be conducted on the Mir Space Station in 1996. He has reviewed articles for Psychology Today and has been an Associate of The Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Honors that Dr. Campbell holds include an elected full member of Sigma Xi, the national research honorary society while a medical student. He has been listed many times in American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, Who’s Who in American Education, and Who’s Who in Medicine and Health Sciences. As a medical student he was awarded the Avalon Foundation Scholarship and was a NIH post-sophomore research fellow for two years.

Currently, Dr. Campbell has 81 publications: 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals or chapters in books, 13 abstracts, 5 book reviews, 1 foreword in a book, 1 biography of a colleague published in a journal upon his retirement, and co-editorship of a book, Evolution of Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates. Two papers have been reprinted in 5 books of significant papers.

Dr. Campbell’s doctoral dissertation research provided evidence that a group of animals generally considered to be the most primitive living primates, and widely used in biomedical research for that reason, were, in fact, not primates. It was published in Science shortly before his dissertation defense, and was accorded considerable attention in the scientific community. Since that time, other evidence, some provided by him, has reinforced that claim and the group has formally been removed from classification with primates and placed in a separate order. One paper has been reprinted in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 1966 as one of the outstanding contributions to physical anthropology in 1966.

A paper published in 1969 presented the first substantive evidence of a direct connection between the eye and the hypothalamus. Robert Y. Moore and his colleagues have corroborated that finding and the retinohypothalamic tract and the suprachiasmatic nuclei now play a highly significant role in a large volume of research on circadian rhythms in mammals, including humans.

A paper written with William Hodos of the University of Maryland was published in the Psychological Review in 1969. The paper attracted over 1000 reprint requests. It has been reprinted in several books of readings for student use and was chosen by a panel of authorities, meeting at the University of Chicago, as one of the 40 most important papers ever published in the field of animal behavior. It is still required reading in many courses in comparative psychology, and we are told that it changed the direction of research in that field.

Dr. Campbell currently teaches the following courses at SCNM: Regional Anatomy I (ANT 603); Microscopic Anatomy (ANAT 610); Neuroanatomy (ANAT 627); Diagnostic Technique and Assessment I, introduction to radiology and radiology of the spine and extremities; Diagnostic Technique and Assessment II, radiology of chest & abdomen (RDDX 710); and Diagnostic Technique and Assessment III, CT/ MRI/ Ultrasound, (RDDX 730).