Byron Capleese Smith

Background

Smith, Byron Capleese was born on August 28, 1908 in Tonganoxie, Kansas, United States. Son of Fountain Michie and Annie Frances (Capleese) Smith.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Kansas, 1929; Doctor of Medicine, University Kansas, 1931.

Career

Resident physician, Topeka Eastern State Hospital, 1931-1933; resident surgeon, Newington Hospital Crippled Children, 1933-1935; intern surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1935-1937; assistant resident ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1937-1938; resident ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1938-1940; assistant surgeon, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1941-1946; senior assistant surgeon, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1946-1949; junior surgeon, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1949-1950; consultant ophthalmic plastic surgery, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, since 1950; assistant surgeon, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, 1946-1949; attending surgeon, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, 1950; surgeon, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, since 1957; board directors, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, since 1951; department chairman ophthalmology, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, since 1963; director department ophthalmic plastic surgery, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, since 1958; now consultant ophthalmic plastic surgery, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Senior surgeon consultant ophthalmology Park Medical Group, New York City. Consultant ophthalmology Monmouth (New Jersey) Medical Center.

Assistant in surgery Yale University School Medicine, 1935-1937. Assistant ophthalmic plastic surgery University of Oxford, England, 1945. Clinical professor ophthalmology New York Medical College, since 1973.

Lecturer Scheie Eye Institute, Philadelphia, since 1978. Consultant ophthalmology Armed Forces United States,1947—. Lecturer American Academy Ophthalmology, 1949, Wendell Hughes lecturer, 1971.

Ophthalmological consultant Kingsbridge Veterans Administration Hospital., since 1949. Also Southampton Hospital. Civilian consultant ophthalmology Surgical General United States Armed Forces, also Far East Command, 1950.

Assistant clinical professor ophthalmology New York University, 1951-1955, associate professor, 1955-1962. Ophthalmic plastic surgeon New York University Medical Center, 1955-1963. E.J. Curran lecturer U. Kansas, 1951.

Albert B. Snell lecturer U. Rochester, New York, 1955. International Symposium lecturer, Ethiopia, Greece, Italy, Uganda and, Kenya. Alfred D. Ruedman lecturer American Society Ocularists, 1974.

Walter Wright lecturer U. Toronto School Medicine,1983. Herman Goldberg lecturer Mount Sinai U. Maryland, 1982. V.H. Kazanjian lecturer New York University School Medicine, 1983.

Distinguished lecturer Society Military Ophthalmologists, 1985. Lecturer New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Quintum Forum Ophthalmologicum Instituto Barraquer, Bogota, Columbia. Board advisers Am.Soc.

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, since 1975. Vice president board of trustees The Searing School, New York City, since 1967. Member medical advisory council American Academy Ocularists, since 1967.

Calude Cowan lecturer National Medical Association 91st Annual Meeting, NYC, since 1986. George Padfield lecturer U. Kansas Med.Ctr. Eyecon 90 meeting, 1990.

Byron Capleese Smith annual lectureship, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York Medical College, 1990.

Achievements

• Byron Capleese Smith has been listed as a noteworthy ophthalmologist, department chairman by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Oculoplastic Surgery: A Compendium of Principles and Techniques
  • The Campaigns of the Fifty-Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, First Known as The Luzerne Regiment; Being the Record of Nearly Four Years' Continous Service, from October 7, 1861, to July 12, 1865, in the War for the Supression of the Reb (P

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  • The Campaigns of the Fifty-Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, First Known as The Luzerne Regiment; Being the Record of Nearly Four Years' Continous Service, from October 7, 1861, to July 12, 1865, in the War for the Suppression of the Re (P

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Practical Techniques in Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery

    (Book by Smith, Byron C)

Membership

Served to major Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Chief ophthalmology Tilton General Hospital 1942-1943, Fort Dix, New Jersey. Chief ophthalmology and plastic surgery 1st General Hospital 1943-1945, England, France and Germany.

Senior consultant ophthalmology 1944-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Medical Association, New York County Medical Society, New York Academy Medicine (secretary 1956-1957, president 1961-1962, 75), American Academy Ophthalmology (Senior Meritorious award 1984), New York Ophthalmol. Society (secretary 1960, president 1973), American Ophthalmol.

Society, Society Medical Consultant World World War II, Society Research Ophthalmology, Ophthalmol. Foundation, Tokyo Bay Medical Society, Pan American Ophthalmol. Association, Physicians Science Society, Oxford (England) Ophthalmol.

Congress, Ophthalmol. Society Northern Spain (honorary), Society Rehabilitation Facially Disfigured, American Polar Society, Byron Smith Fellowship Society (honorary president 1975), Society for Yale Alumni in Medicine, Montana Academy Ophthalmology (honorary member), American Anaplastology Association, Ophthmal. Society of the East (honorary), Phi Beta Pi.

Clubs: Lion (honorary), New York Athletic, Gipsy Trail, Explorers, Strollers Society.

Connections

Son of Fountain Michie and Annie Frances (Capleese) S. M. Virginia Batton Stentz, April 13, 1942 (divorced). 1 daughter, Constance Batton (Mistress Stanley Williams).

M. Margarite Elizabeth Fox, October 15, 1948. Children: Grady Livingston, Lindsay Byron.

Father:

Fountain Michie Smith

Mother:

Annie Frances (Capleese) Smith

Spouse:

Margarite Elizabeth Fox

Spouse:

Virginia Batton Stentz

child:

Lindsay Byron Smith

child:

Grady Livingston Smith