Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins (born August 20, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is a physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

, biographer and scientist

Scientist

A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...

, best known for his work on shock and violence prevention and for his 1975 biography of jazz musician John Coltrane

John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...

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Simpkins was born August 20, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. His father, a dentist, is Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins from Shreveport, Louisiana and his mother, a social worker, is Dorothy Herndon Simpkins from Chicago, Illinois.