Background
Doan, Charles Austin was born on June 5, 1896 in Nelsonville, Ohio, United States. Son of Robert Austin and Lella Minturn (Walch) Doan.
Doan, Charles Austin was born on June 5, 1896 in Nelsonville, Ohio, United States. Son of Robert Austin and Lella Minturn (Walch) Doan.
Bachelor of Science, Hiram (Ohio) College, 1918. Postgraduate, University Cincinnati, 1919. Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1923.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Ohio State University, 1964.
Resident house officer, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1923;
research assistant, assistant professor, Thorndike Memorial laboratories, Harvard Medical School, 1924-1925;
associate, Rockefeller Institute Medical Research, 1925-1930;
professor medicine, director department medical and surgical research, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1930-1936;
department chairman medicine, director medical research, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1936-1944;
dean College Medicine, professor medicine, director Health Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1944-1961;
director division hematology, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1961-1966;
dean and professor medicine emeritus, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1961-1990. Technical director Blood Donor Center American Red Cross, 1942-1945, medical director, 1947-1957, past member sub-commission on blood and blood derivatives. Chairman Region 8 Graduate War Medical Meeting Commission.
Chairman Committee on Science Work, Ohio State Medical Association, 1942-1945. Expert consultant Surgeon General, Department Army. Member hematology studysect.
National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service. Member commission on blood and blood-forming organs of panel on clin physiology National Research Council, also commission on growth. Member panel on blood and blood-forming organs Medical Advisory Board.
With Medical corpus, United States army, 1917-1919, to lieutenant colonel Medical Corps Reserve, Army of the United States, 1940-1942. Member American College of Physicians, American Association Anatomists, Harvey Society, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Center Society Clinical Research, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Experimental Pathology, American Society Clinical Pathology, Ohio Academy of Sciences, Association American Physicians, Ohio Public Health Association, International R-E Society, American Society Hematology, Masons (33d degree), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Chi, Pi Kappa Delta, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Margaret Dixon Riggs, May 28, 1926. Children: Elizabeth, Ellen Virginia.