Dearing, Warren Palmer, 1905 -
Biographical notes:
Dr. Ward Dearing was born in Iowa in 1905 and raised in Omak, Washington. He received his BA with high honors from the State College of Washington in 1927, and received his M.D. cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1931. For the next three years, he served on the faculty of the Department of Preventive Medicine and the School of Public Health as Assistant in Epidemiology. In 1934, he joined the Public Health Service, including nine years as Deputy Surgeon General. He was also appointed Chief of the U.S. delegation to the 14th Pan American Sanitary Congress (1954), served as U.S. representative to the NATO Medical Committee, and named by President Lyndon Johnson to the Consumer Advisory Council (1965).
After leaving goverment service in 1961, he became a consultant to the Group Health Association. He retired in 1971 as the GHA's Executive Director.
- Other affiliations
- Member, Founders Group of the American Board of Preventive Medicine
- Fellow, American Public Health Association
- Former member, House of Delegates, American Medical Association
- Member, Subcommittee on Medical Care, American Public Health Association
- Member, American Society for Public Administration
- Former member, Board of Directors, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness
From the guide to the Warren Palmer Dearing Papers, 1943-1971, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)
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