Senn, Milton J. E., 1902-....

Physician.

From the description of Reminiscences of Milton J.E. Senn : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619700

Milton J. E. Senn was born in Milwaukee in 1902. He earned his M.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1925 and served as a fellow in pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis from 1928 to 1933. He moved to Cornell University Medical School in 1933 as a professor of pediatrics. In 1939, upon completing at 2-year Commonwealth Fund fellowship, Dr. Senn became a psychoanalyst. In 1948 he was appointed director of the Yale University Medical School's Child Study Center. During an 18-year period, Senn expanded the Center's emphasis to one which applied insights from child psychiatry to pediatrics. From 1951 to 1964 he also simultaneously chaired the Pediatrics department at the Yale University Medical School. After 1966 he continued at Yale as Sterling Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. Dr. Senn died June 8, 1990.

From the description of American Child Guidance Clinic and Child Psychiatry Movement interview collection, 1975-1978. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14329803

In 1911, Arnold Gesell inaugurated services for emotionally disturbed children as well as research into the normal development of children. These services, later known as the Yale Clinic of Child Development, became known worldwide. In 1930, the clinic became a department in the School of Medicine, the first program in child development to receive such recognition in a medical school. When Gesell retired in 1948, the name was changed to the Child Study Center, taking a more environmental and psychoanalytic approach to child development. Milton J.E. Senn, a nationally prominent pediatrician, became the first director, serving until 1966. He expanded the training of psychiatrists and pediatricians in child development, and brought to Yale a series of investigators and teachers who became leaders in their fields.

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OC: pediatrician, child-psychiatrist PO: Additional career information: pediatrician-in-chief Grace-New Haven Community Hosp., 1951-58.; dir. Child Study Ctr., Yale U. Med. Sch., New Haven, 1948-66; prof. Emeritus, Yale U. Med. Sch., New Haven, 1970-90; Sterling prof. Pediatrics and psychiatry, Yale U. Med. Sch., New Haven, 1948-70; asst., assoc., later attending pediatrician, N.Y. Hosp., N.Y.C., 1933-49; prof. Pediatrics and psychiatry, Cornell U. Med. Coll., N.Y.C., 1948-49; Commonwealth Fund fellow in psychiatry, Cornell U. Med. Coll., N.Y.C., 1937-39; assoc. in pediatrics, Cornell U. Med. Coll., N.Y.C., 1933-39; fellow, instr. Pediatrics, Washington U., St. Louis, 1929-33; resident, Children's Hosp., Milw., 1927-28; intern, Columbia Hosp., Milw., 1927-29 ED: BS, U. Wis., 1925; MD, U. Wis., 1927; MA (hon.), Yale U., 1948 Bd. dirs. Field Found. ME: Mem. Am. Pediatric Soc., Am. Acad. Pediatrics, Am. Orthopsychiat. Assn., N.Y. Acad. Medicine.

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From the guide to the Milton J.E. Senn Papers, 1927-1983, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)