Misc: Wills Eye Hospital Board and Staff (1952): Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Barbara Brown Hootman . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** ANNUAL REPORT To the Board of Directors of City Trusts WILLS EYE HOSPITAL 1952 Wills Eye Hospital, 1601 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia 30 GOVERNING BOARD BOARD OF DIRECTORS John A Diemand, President OF CITY TRUSTS Ernest T. Trigg, Vice-President Effingham B. Morris, Jr., Vice President Thomas B.K. Ringe, Vice President Morris Wolf Thomas A. Shallow, M.D. Walter B. Gibbons Geo. F. Norton Hubert J. Horan, Jr. Herbert W. Goodall Revelle W. Brown Samuel H. Daroff Joseph S. Clark, Jr, ex-officio Mayor of Philadelphia James A. Finnegan, ex-officio President, City Council W. Henry Gillam, Jr., General Manager G. Curtis Pritchard, Secretary COMMITTEE OF THE Ernest T. Trigg, Chairman BOARD ON WILLS EYE Thomas A. Shallow, M.D. HOSPITAL Walter B. Gibbons Hubert J. Horan, Jr. Samuel H. Daroff James A. Finnegan ____________________________________________________ SUPERINTENDENT Melvin L. Sutley, F.A.C.H.A ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Vioilet Becker, Dietician Gertrude Gardner, Housekeeper Ada Padgett, Chief Laboratory Technician Mary D'Abruzzo, Chief Pharmacist Clio Moulder, R.N., Night Supervisor Wilhelmina Patterson, RN, Superintendent of Nurses Luella Pollard, R.N., Night Supervisor Melvin L. Sutley, Superintendent Josephine H. Whealton, Private Admissions Clerk Anthony Forte, Purchasing Agent Clarence Evans, Chief Clerk Eva DeMars, Chief Orthoptist Norman Case, Chief X-Ray Technician Eleanor Thompson, Social Service Director Frederick Raff, Jr., Cashier Edwin Hays, Assistant to the Superintendent Arhur Frick, Chief Optician Edward Roger, Chief Engineer WILLS EYE MEDICAL STAFF CONSULTING SURGEONS William Zentmayer, M.D. Burotn Chance, M.D. Francis Heed Adler, M.D. Leighton F. Appleman, M.D. Frank C. Parker, M.D.* Arthur J. Bedell, M.D., Honorary EXECUTIVE SURGEON Carroll R. Mullen, M.D. BOARD OF ATTENDING SURGEONS Edmund B. Spaeth, M.D., President William J. Harrison, M.D., Vice-President James S. Shipman, M.D., Secretary * Deceased July 3, 1952 STAFF Warren S. Reese, M.D. Attending Surgeon J. Thomas Krall, M.D. Senior Asst. Surgeon E. Pierce Shope, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Victor I. Seidel, M.D. Assistant Surgeon George P. Meyer, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Octavius A. Capriotti, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Turget N. Hamdi, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Ernest Heydt, M.D. Clinical Assistant Benjamin Shortkroff, M.D. Clinical Assistant Carroll R. Mulen, M.D. Attending Surgeon Edward J. Donnelly, M.D. Senior Asst. Surgeon John W. Deichler, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Irvin Levy, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Robert W. Traganza, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Walter S. Neid., M.D. Assistant Surgeon Thomas H. Low, M.D. Clinical Assistant @ James Monahan, M.D. Clinical Assistant Edward J. Cannon, M.D. Clinical Assistant James S. Shipman, M.D. Attending Surgeon Harold D. Barnshaw, M.D. Senior Asst. Surgeon Edwin P. Sacks-Wilner, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Oram R. Kline, Jr., M.D. Assistant Surgeon Ned Shaw, M.D. Clinical Assistant George R. Boothe, M.D. Clinical Assistant Richard H. Seely, M.D. Clinical Assistant Edmund B. Spaeth, M.D. Attending Surgeon Charles A. Rankin, M.D. Senior Asst. Surgeon Thomas H. Cowan, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Robert H. Trueman, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Jacob Katz, M.D. Assistant Surgeon William P. Robinson, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Sidney Weiss, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Frank C. Lutman, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Paul A. Rockwell, M.D. Clinical Assistant E. Howard Bedrossian, M.D. Clinical Assistant Solomon Brav, M.D. Clinical Assistant William J. Harrison, M.D. Attending Surgeon Edward J. Lipsius, M.D. Senior Asst. Surgeon Theodore V. Mitskas, M.D. Clinical Assistant@ Frank T Levy, M.D. Clinical Assistant Herman H. Dight, M.D. Clinical Assistant George F. Hutchinson, M.D. Clinical Assistant@ Morris Rosen, M.D. Clinical Assistant Teofil Babacz, M.D. Clinical Assistant Raphael A. Levin, M.D. Clinical Assistant Isaac S. Tassman, M.D. Attending Surgeon Alvin W. Howland, M.D. Senior Asst. Surgeon Joseph Hallett, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Frank L. Cohen, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Joseph A. Mira, M.D. Clinical Assistant@ Bernard A. Balsis, M.D. Clinical Assistant Joseph Kaplan, M.D. Clinical Assistant Wilford E. Fry, M.D. Attending Surgeon Louis B. Cohen, M.D. Senior Asst. Surgeon S. Creadick Rhoads, M.D. Assistant Surgeon H. Walter Forster, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Michael I. Wokowicz, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Merrill H. Woolmington, M.D.Assistant Surgeon Josephj M. Tillman, M.D. Clinical Assistant Anthony J. Oropallo, M.D. Clinical Assistant Levon D. Yazujian, M.D. Clinical Assistant@ Edward H. Bedrossian, M.D. Clinical Assistant Irving H. Leopold, M.D. Attending Surgeon Bernard C. Gettes, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Isadore Eisenberg, M.D. Assistant Surgeon Adolph W. Vogel, M.D. Clinical Assistant Marilyn M. Riggs, M.D. Clinical Assistant Abraham Bernstein, M.D. Clinical Assistant Samuel DeLong, M.D. Clinical Assistant Owen Belmont, M.D. Clinical Assistant Thomas G. Dickinson, M.D. Clinical Assistant DEPARTMENTS REFRACTION Bernard C. Gettes , M.D. Chief ROENTGENOLOGY Thomas F. Graham, M.D. Chief PATHOLOGY Perce DeLong, M.D. Chief John S. McGavie, M.O. Asst. Pathologist DENTAL Gustaf C. Tassman, D.D.S. Chief Peter Nagrem, D.D.S. Dental Surgeon Harvey Packer, D.D.S. Dental Surgeon OTOLARYNGOLOGY William F. Whelan, M.D. Chief Kelvin A. Kasper, M.D. Chief Hugh J. McAdams, M.D. Asst. Otolaryngologist LABORATORY OF PHYSIOLOGIC OPTICS George J. Dublin, M.D. Chief OCULAR MOTILITY ]William E. Krewson, III Chief Eva M. DeMars, R.N. Chief Orthopist DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY Joseph V. Klauder, M.D. Chief Marjory K. Hardy, M.D. Assistant Benjamin A. Gross, M.D. Assistant George P. Meyer, M.D. Assistant RESEARCH] Irving H. Leopold, M.D. Director Enrique Wudka, M.D. Research Fellow Marilyn Riggs, M.D. Research Fellow Harry Green, Ph.D. Bio-Chemistry Virginia L. Weimer, Ph.D, Bio-Chemistry NEUROLOGY Bernard J. Alpers, M.D. Chief Rudolph Jaeger, M.D. Neuro-Surgeon Nathan S. Schlezinger, M.D. Asst. Neurologist INTERNAL MEDICINE Harold A. Hanno, M.D. Chief Edward Gosfield, Jr., M.D. Assistant Merle M. Miller, M.D. Allergist Ralph W. Hoerner, M.D. Asst. Allergist PEDIATRICS Joseph A. Ritter, M.D. Chief Nathan Epstein, M.D. Asst. Pediatrician Robert F. Plotkin, M.D. Asst. Pediatrician@ GYNECOLOGY Joseph H. Zeigerman, M.D. Asst. Gynecologist ANESTHESIOLOGY Samuel Blank, M.D. Chief Leon Baker, R.N. Anesthetist CONSULTING STAFF Willliam Bates, M.D. General Surgeon Theodore R. Fetter, M.D. Urologist Robert A. Kimbrough, M.D. Gynecologist Bernard P. Widmann, M.D. Roentgenologist _@ Leave of Absence ____________________________________________________________ RESIDENT SURGEONS Medical College Graduation Thomas G. Dickinson, M.D*. Syracuse University 1945 Paul Kahn Jr., M.D,* University of S. Calif 1945 Ward McCally, M.D. * Columbia University 1945 Richard H. Seely, M.D. * Jefferson Medical College 1945 Owen Belmont, M.D.* Temple University 1939 Edward J. Cannon, M.D * Temple University 1948 William H. Kratka, M.D. Temple University 1936 Karl Aijian, M.D. Tulane University 1947 Charles G. Steinmetz, III, M.D. Jefferson Medical College 1948 William H. Annesley, M.D. Jefferson Medical College 1948 Robert A. Anthony, M.D. University of Tennessee 1949 Cyril M. Luce, M.D. University of Utah 1939 Florian R. Maylath, M.D. Georgetown University 1939 Mila Ashodian, M.D. Temple University 1949 James F. O'Rourke, M.D. Georgetown University 1949 Emory E. Royce, M.,D. St. Louis University 1939 Thomas J. McKenna, M.D. University of Pittsburgh 1940 William K. Wheatley, M.D. University of Cincinnati 1943 * Completed course during 1952