Futcher, Palmer Howard

Palmer Howard Futcher, AB, 1932, Harvard University; MD, 1936, Johns Hopkins University, specialized in internal medicine. He completed a medical quarter at the Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital as a fourth year medical student from Johns Hopkins University. Futcher later was on the faculties of Washington University Medical School from 1946 to 1948, Johns Hopkins University from 1948 to 1967, and the University of Pennsylvania after 1967.

Palmer H. Futcher (1910-2004) was assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine from 1946-1948. He earned his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1936 in the same class as Washington University faculty member Barry Wood. Wood hired him in the spring of 1946, and he had other appointments in medicine at Barnes Hospital and as chief of the diabetic & endocrine clinic at Washington University Clinics. In 1948, he moved to Johns Hopkins as associate professor of medicine and physician in charge of the private outpatient service of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He held a number of posts at Johns Hopkins including assistant dean. From 1967 to 1975 he was the executive secretary of the American Board of Internal Medicine.