1928
Born to Joseph James and Mae Henrietta (Jackson) Nora in Chicago, IL.
1950
Earns a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
1954
Earns a Doctor of Medicine from Yale University.
1954
Is an intern at the DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital through 1955.
1959
Is a resident in pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
1962
Is a fellow of cardiology at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
1964
Is a Fellow of Genetics at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
1965
Teaches as an associate professor of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine.
1971
Serves as the director of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine through 1978.
1971
Is a physician, writer, professor of genetics, preventive medicine and pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
1978
Earns a Master of Public Health from the University of California Berkeley.
1983
Is a consultant for the World Health Organization at Geneva, Switzerland, through 2010.
1993
Is named professor emeritus by the University of Colorado School of Medicine and presently maintains this title.
2012
Writes “By a Truthful Storyteller, Second Edition.”
2013
Writes “Searching.”
2014
Writes “Fire and Flood” and “Beyond Sixty-Third Street.”
2020
Is a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the American College of Cardiology.