Background
Woods, Alan Churchill was born on August 20, 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Hiram and Laura (Hall) Woods.
Woods, Alan Churchill was born on August 20, 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Hiram and Laura (Hall) Woods.
Preparatory education Boys Latin School, Baltimore, 1900-1906. Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins, 1910, Doctor of Medicine 1914. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Hampden-Sydney, 1951.
House officer Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1914-1915. Fellow in research medicine and assistant in ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, 1915-1917. Instructor in ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1919-1922, associate, 1922-1926, associate professor, 1926-1934.
Acting professor ophthalmology, 1934, director department, 1937, professor, 1946-1955, emeritus.
Ophthalmologist in chief Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1937-1955, ophthalmologist in chief, 1955-1960. Visiting lecturer, ophthalmology Harvard University, 1957.
Member commission to review physical standards for induction, 1944. Civilian consultant on ophthalmology to the surgeon general of the army, 1944. Member of commission on ophthalmology National Research Council, 1943, chairman, 1947, 58.
Served as First lieutenant Medical corpus, United States army, Mexican Punitive Expedition, 1916.
Member American Ophthalmological Society (president 1955), American Academy Ophthalmological and Otolaryngol. (president 1947), Association American Immunologists, American Medical Association, Ophthalmological Society United Kingdom (honorary), Greek Ophthalmological Society (honorary) Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Xi.
Clubs: Maryland, Elkridge Hunt, Hamilton Street (Baltimore).
Married Anne Powell Byrd, June 19, 1917. Children: Alan Churchill, Anne Byrd, Jacquelin Ambler.