Up for auction "SKYLAB" Donald Holmquest Hand Signed 3x5 Index Card. This item is certified authentic by JG
Autographs and comes with their Letter of Authenticity. ES - 0553 Donald
Lee Holmquest (born April 7, 1939)
is an American lawyer, physician, electrical engineer, and
former NASA astronaut. He was the CEO of the California Regional Health
Information Organization (RHIO). Holmquest was born on April 7,
1939, in Dallas, Texas. After graduating from Dallas’s Adamson High
School, he received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University with
highest honors in 1962. After receiving his MD and a PhD in physiology from Baylor College of Medicine in
1967 and 1968, respectively, Holmquist began a residency in internal medicine
at Houston Methodist Hospital.
He married Charlotte Ann (née Blaha) in 1967. They have one
daughter. Holmquest joined NASA as
a scientist-astronaut after completing his
internship. After a year of flight training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, he earned his Air Force wings, and then worked
for 1+1⁄2 years on Skylab habitability systems and medical experiments.
During this time, he logged 750 hours flying time in jet aircraft. When not assigned to a Skylab prime
or backup crew by May 1971, however, Holmquest took a leave of absence from
NASA in order to return to Baylor College of Medicine to train in nuclear medicine. He formally resigned from the Astronaut Corps
in September 1973. After completing his residency training, Holmquest assumed
the role of chief of nuclear medicine at Ben Taub General Hospital,
a primary public teaching hospital at Baylor. He was then recruited to
California’s Eisenhower Medical Center to
establish their Department of Nuclear Medicine. He was then named associate dean of medicine at Texas A&M University as
it developed its new College of Medicine. Holmquest earned a JD degree cum laude from the University of Houston Law
Center in 1988. While he continued to practice medicine and
serve as adjunct professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine,
Holmquist also worked as a lawyer, focused on matters related to the health
care industry. After working as a senior partner at Wood, Lucksinger &
Epstein, he established the firm of Holmquest & Associates. Holmquest
resides in Menlo Park, California. |