Background
García, Celso-Ramón was born on October 31, 1921 in New York City. Son of Celso García y Ondina and Oliva Menèndez (del Valle) García.
educator gynecologist Obstetrician
García, Celso-Ramón was born on October 31, 1921 in New York City. Son of Celso García y Ondina and Oliva Menèndez (del Valle) García.
Bachelor of Science, Queens College, 1942; Doctor of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 1945; Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania.
Intern, Norwegian Hospital, Brooklyn, 1945-1946;
resident, Cumberland Hospital, Brooklyn, 1948-1953;
research fellow in ob/gynecology, Cumberland Hospital, Brooklyn, 1949-1950;
research fellow in gynecology, Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1955-1957;
assistant surgeon, Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1958-1961;
associate surgeon, Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1961-1965;
assistant professor obstetrics-gynecology., U. P.R., San Juan, 1953-1955;
associate in obstetrics-gynecology., U. P.R., San Juan, 1953-1954;
assistant professor obstetrics-gynecology., School Medicine and Tropical Medicine, P.R., 1954-1955;
co-director, Rock Reproductive Study Center
assistant obstetrician and gynecologist, Boston Lying-In Hospital
associate surgeon, Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1955-1965;
senior scientist, director training program in physiology reproduction, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 1960-1962;
assistant surgeon, chief, Infertility Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital
from assistant, instructor to clinical associate obstetrics-gynecology., Harvard Medical School, 1962-1965;
professor obstetrics and gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965-1992;
William Shippen, Junior professor human reproduction, University of Pennsylvania, 1970-1992;
William Shippen, Junior professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, since 1992;
director infertility and reproductive endocrinology and surgery, University of Pennsylvania, 1987-1995. Extraordinary professor of University San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1974. Rapporteur committee of experts on clinical aspects oral gestogens World Health Organization, Geneva, 1965.
Member ad hoc advising committee contraceptive development, contract program National Institute ChildHealth and Human Development, 1971-1975. Member original team which developedclin. application of 1st Food and Drug Administration approved progestagen-estrogen combinations for oral contraception (the Pill). Developer, director first formal training program in physiology of reproduction in the United States.
Innovator surgical approach to infertility of women. Consultant Pennsylvania Hospital, 1973-1994. Assistant staff Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Boston.
Courtesy staff Glover Memorial Hospital, Needham, Massachusetts. Advisory board Global Alliance for Women's Health, since 1995.
Chairman national medical advisory committee Planned Parenthood World Population, 1971-1974. Member national advisory child and human development council National Institute Child Health and Human Development, 1981-1984. With Army of the United States, 1943-1948.
Fellow: American College of Obstetrics and Gynocology, American College of Surgeons, College Physicians Philadelphia. Member: American Medical Association, Boston Obstetrical Society (emeritus), Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, American Society Reproduction Medicine (board directors, past president), Society Reproductive Surgeons (founding president), Association Planned Parenthood Physicians (past president), Federation Columbian Societies Ob-Gyn. (honorary), Cuban Society Ob-Gyn.
(honorary; in exile), American Physiological Society, American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, American Society Gynecological Surgeons, Global Alliance Women's Health (advisory board since 1994, representative to United Nations Economic and Social Council 1998), Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi, Masons.
Married Shirley Jean Stoddard, October 14, 1950. Children: Celso-Ramón Junior, Sarita Garcia Cole.