Background
Whittaker, Alfred Heacock was born on September 30, 1894 in Portsmouth, Oregon, United States. Son of Alfred M. and Annie M. (Heacock) Whittaker.
Whittaker, Alfred Heacock was born on September 30, 1894 in Portsmouth, Oregon, United States. Son of Alfred M. and Annie M. (Heacock) Whittaker.
Doctor of Medicine, Ohio State University, 1918; Doctor of Arts, Wayne State University, 1957.
House surgeon, Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, from 1918; resident, Cornell Univercity division Bellvue Hospital, New York City, 1919; resident, Industrial Hospital, Detroit, 1920; junior attending surgeon, Bellevue Hospital also surgeon outpatient department, Roosevelt Hospital, 1921-1922; practice general surgery, Detroit, from 1922; surgeon, Harper Hospital, 1925-1953; surgeon, Children's Hospital of Michigan, 1930-1945; surgeon, Detroit Memorial Hospital, from 1943; surgeon, Deaconess Hospital, from 1922. Consultant surgeon Cottage Hospital, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Board directors Michigan Medical Services. Past commissioner Detroit City Plan Commission. President Future Detroit Inc.
Medical advisor Franklin Settlement. Vice president Detroit and Michigan Artists Memorial Corporation. Member Mayor's Committee Civic Design, 1952-1953.
Chairman maypr's committee Detroit 250th Anniversary Celebration Committee, 1950-1951. Vice president Detroit Corporation Housing Aged. Vice president Minute Men of Michigan.
Michigan area chairman Ohio State University. Member board governors Wayne State University. Member medical advisory committee National Fund Medical Education Director Community Fund Detroit, 1945-1953, Detroit Metropolitan Rehabilitation Institute, from 1951, Detroit chapter American Red Cross, from 1953.
Past vice president Friends Grosse Pointe Public Library. Administrator National Medical Shrine, Beaumont Memorial on Mackinac Island. Member bipartisan Mackinac Island State Park Commission, from 1957.
Fellow American Medical Association (recipient exceptional merit award in history medicine 1945), American College of Surgeons, International College Surgeons (chairman section occupational surgery 1951-1953). Member American Association Surgery Trauma, Academy Surgery Detroit (past president), American Association History Medicine, Michigan Association Industrial Medicine and Surgery, Industrial Medical Association (president 1949-1950, chairman medical history committee), Michigan Medical Society (chairman Beaumont committee 1951-1952), Wayne County Medical Society, Detroit Industrial Physicians Club, Detroit Society Surgery Trauma (trustee), Detroit History Society (president 1946-1950, trustee 1944-1953), Detroit Philosophical Society, Ohio State University Medical Alumni Association (past president), Detroit Surgical Society, Alumni Association Roosevelt Hospital, American Legion, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Kappa Kappa. Clubs: Economic, University, Boat, Detroit, Detroit Athletic, Players, Detroit Country, Harmonic (president 1953), University (Chicago, New York City), Faculty (Ohio State University).
Married Margaret E. Evans, July 16, 1917. Children: Alfred E., Hilary E., Joyce E., Jeanne E., James E.