Benno Karl Milmore

Background

Milmore, Benno Karl was born on January 27, 1914 in Schwerin, Germany. Came to the United States, 1916. Son of Alphonse Ernst and Christine Marie (Prûss) Milmore.

Education

Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1935; Doctor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1939; Master in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 1942.

Career

Commissioned medical officer, United States Public Health Service, 1938; advanced through grades to colonel, United States Public Health Service, 1954; medical intern, United States Marine Hospital, San Francisco, 1938-1939; ward surgeon, United States Marine Hospital, Savannah, Georgia, 1939-1940; medical officer, United States Public Health Service Typhus Control Unit, Savannah, Georgia, 1940-1941; medical officer, United States Public Health Service Typhus Control Unit, Atlanta, 1942-1943; chief medical section, United States Public Health Service Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, Atlanta, 1943-1944; medical officer, United States Navy Military Government in Western Pacific, Okinawa, Japan., 1944-1945; chief outpatient department, United States Marine Hospital, San Francisco, 1945-1948; diabetes consultant, California State Department Public Health, Bureau Chronic Diseases, Berkeley, 1948-1953; chronic disease consultant, United States Public Health Service Region IX, San Francisco, 1953-1954; epidemiologist, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1954-1961; chief bureau chronic diseases, California State Department Public Health, Berkeley, 1961-1963; chief epidemiology center, California State Department Public Health, Berkeley, 1963-1966; assistant chief contract counties health services section, California State Department Public Health, Berkeley, 1967-1977. Lecturer School Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 1950-1954, 61-77. Member cardiac in industry committee California Heart Association, San Francisco, 1952-1954, statewide case finding committee California Tuberculosis and Health Association, San Francisco, 1953, community advisory board East Bay Rehabilitation Center, Berkeley, 1961-1966.

Achievements

• Benno Karl Milmore has been listed as a noteworthy epidemiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Public Health Association, American College Preventive Medicine. Member American Medical Association, American Diabetes Association, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, California Academy Preventive Medicine, California Public Health Association, Phi Chi, Sierra Club.

Interests

• Avocations: music-opera and symphony, travel, backpacking in the Sierra.

Connections

Married Marsha Anna Healy, July 31, 1937. Children: Marsha University Milmore Leake, Frank H., Donald E., Maxine A. Milmore Schreiner.

Father:

Alphonse Ernst Milmore

Mother:

Christine Marie (Prûss) Milmore

Spouse:

Marsha Anna Healy

child:

Maxine A. Milmore Schreiner Milmore

child:

Frank H. Milmore

child:

Marsha University Milmore Leake Milmore

child:

Donald E. Milmore