1932
Dr. Mason is born in Berkeley, California to Ira Jenckes and Florence Mabel Mason.
1954
Dr. Mason receives a Bachelor of Art in chemistry from Duke University.
1957
Dr. Mason marries Maureen O’Brien.
1958
Dr. Mason earns a Doctor of Medicine from Duke University and begins a medical internship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
1959
Dr. Mason begins a residency in medicine at the Duke University Medical Center.
1960
Dr. Mason begins a residency in medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
1961
Dr. Mason becomes a senior assistant surgeon and a clinical associate of the cardiology branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute with the National Institutes of Health.
1963
Dr. Mason becomes an attending physician, a senior investigator in the cardiology branch, and the assistant director of the cardiovascular diagnosis section with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
1968
Dr. Mason joins UC Davis Medical Center as a professor of medicine and physiology, and chief of cardiovascular medicine.
1974
Dr. Mason receives the Skylab Achievement Award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
1977
Dr. Mason serves as president of the American College of Cardiology.
1980
Dr. Mason serves as editor-in-chief of the “American Heart Journal,” published by Elsevier-Mosby, Inc.
1981
Dr. Mason becomes the first cardiologist to publish a symposium on coronary thrombolysis for patients with myocardial infarction.
1982
Dr. Mason becomes the director of the cardiac center at Cedars Medical Center in Miami, Florida.
1983
Dr. Mason becomes physician-in-chief at St. Mary’s Medical Center Western heart Institute.
1986
Dr. Mason becomes chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at St. Mary’s Medical Center.
1987
Dr. Mason is named an honorary professor of medicine at the Peking University Health Science Center in Bejing, China.
2000
Dr. Mason joins the Honorary Medical Staff at St. Mary’s Medical Center.
2004
Dr. Mason receives the Paul Dudley White Award for Distinguished Service in Cardiovascular Medicine.
2017
Dr. Mason is honored with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and as a Distinguished Humanitarian with Marquis Who’s Who.