Knott, James I., 1901-1977

James Isaiah Knott earned his B.S.(1923) from Washington University and M. D. (1925) from Washington University Medical School. He was Assistant in Surgery (1925-1926). He served internships at Jewish Hospital of St. Louis (1926-1927) and at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester New York (1926). He was resident (cancer surgery) at Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, St. Louis (1927-1928). After a short time in private practice in Denver, he became Assistant Medical Director (tropical medicine and surgery) at Firestone Plantations, Liberia, West Africa, 1929-1930. Following postgraduate training at the London School of Tropical Medicine in Winter 1930-1931, he became Assistant Medical Director (tropical medicine and surgery) at Presbyterian Hospital, San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1931. From 1931 to 1939, he was Chief Municipal Physician, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1938. He returned to the United States to practice general surgery in San Diego. During world War II he volunteered as a tropical medicine expert and served in Brazil in 1943, the South Pacific Islands in 1944, and became a teacher in 1945 at the Carlisle Army Medical School, PA to educate Army doctors being sent to the Pacific about tropical diseases. After the war, he founded a group practice in San Diego with doctors in other speicalties. He published 26 articles, mostly on surgical techniques and original work on Filariasis.