Lake, Lorraine F., 1918- 2000

Lorraine Frances Lake (1918-2001) was a member of the last class of 12 students to graduate from the Barnes Hospital School for Physical Therapy in 1948. She continued her education after joining the faculty of the physical therapy program at Washington University in 1949, earning a B.S. (1950), M.A. (1954 Anatomy) and Ph.D. (1962 Anatomy) at Washington University. On her committee for her Ph.D. were Mildred Trotter and George H. Bishop. At Washington University School of Medicine, she served as: instructor in physical therapy (1949-1954), instructor in anatomy and physical therapy (1954-1958), assistant professor anatomy and physical therapy (1958-1980) and preventative medicine and public health (1971-), director of physical therapy (1959-1960), assistant director (1960-1967) & associate director (1967-1979) Irene Walter Johnson Institute of of Rehabilitation, and associate director physical therapy curriculum and chg clinical training (1958-1963). She traveled Europe and the U.S. inspecting Air Force hospitals as the National Civilian Consultant to the Surgeon General, US Air Force (1965-1967). Dr. Lakes's research interest was in normal and abnormal neuromuscular function, electromyocardiographic investigations of normal human movement, and human teratology. She retired in 1980. -- Amer. Men & Wom. of Sci., 1979 &1982; Obituary, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 21, 2000; "Early Leaders of the Washington University Program in Physical Therapy." http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/mowihsp/bios/WUPT.htm.