Dr. Charles Eldridge

Class of 1960 Dr. Charles Eldridge is Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. After graduating from Ottawa Township High School, Charles Eldridge attended North Central College, earning his bachelor’s of arts degree with majors in biology and chemistry. In 1967 he earned his master’s of science degree from Northern Illinois University and then completed a Ph.D in 1971 at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Eldridge held academic appointments at Orange County Community College, Middletown, New York, the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, and a fellowship at the University of Bordeaux, France, before moving to a distinguished career at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His research in endocrinology has been presented in more than 180 published articles, books, seminars, and professional conferences. At Wake Forest he served as the principal instructor of endocrine physiology and pharmacology for classes of medical and graduate students. His model of learning in small-group tutorials integrated with faculty-directed instruction has been described in more than 70 professional publications, conferences, seminars, and workshops. Dr. Eldridge co-authored more than 40 tutorial cases copyrighted by Wake Forest for medical and graduate school curricula. He has also been invited to consult on matters of endocrine toxicology and pharmacology by the United States Government and many private corporations, including E.I. DuPont, Syngenta AG, Novartis Animal Health, Inc., and several law practices. Dr. Eldridge won numerous awards for teaching excellence: Ciba Researcher of the Year, Harvard Macy Foundation Scholar, and Distinguished Alumni Awards from both the Medical College of Georgia and North Central College, as well as inclusion in the publications, American Men and Women of Science, Marquis Who’s Who in America, and Marquis Who’s Who in the World, under Medicine and Healthcare, Science and Engineering, and American Education.