Charles Wellington Pearce

Background

Pearce, Charles Wellington was born on November 2, 1927 in Ballinger, Texas, United States. Son of Francis Marion and Fannie (Brown) Pearce.

Education

Student Rice University, 1945-1946, 48-49, University Texas, 1948. Doctor of Medicine Cornell Univercity, 1953.

Career

Center, New York City, 1953-1955, 56-60. ResidentBaylor U. Affiliated Hospitals, 1955-1956, Charity Hospital, New Orleans, 1960-1961. Practice medicine specializing in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, New Orleans, since 1961.

Member of staff Touro Infirmary, Southern Bapt.Hosp., Hotel Dieu, member of faculty Tulane University, New Orleans, 1960-1983, associate professor surgery, 1966-1969, head section cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, 1967-1969, associate professor clinical surgery, 1969-1983.

Head cardiothoracicsurgery, clinical professor surgery Louisiana State University, since 1983. Visiting surgeon Charity Hospital, New Orleans, 1961-1969.

Consultant surgery Huey P. Long CharityHosp., Pineville, Louisiana, 1961-1970, Lallie Kemp Charity Hospital, Independence, Louisiana, 1961-1970, Veterans Administration Hospital., Alexandria, Louisiana, 1961-1969, Keesler Air Force Hospital, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1967-1970. Consultant cardiac section crippled children program Louisiana Department Health.

Achievements

• Charles Wellington Pearce has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1946-1948. Louisiana Heart Association grantee, 1961-1962. Diplomate American Board Surgery, Board Thoracic Surgery.Fellow Australian Computer Society, American College Chest Physicians, American College Cardiology.

Member American Association Thoracic Surgery, Society for Vascular Surgery, American Heart Association (established investigator 1962-1965), Society Thoracic Surgeons, International Cardiovascular Society, International Surgical Society, Southern Medical Association, Orleans Parish, Louisiana medical societies, Louisiana, New Orleans surgical societies, Louisiana Heart Association, Society Mayflower Descendants (Louisiana governor 1975-1981), Sons of the American Revolution, New Orleans Opera House Association (director) since 1976), New Orleans Opera.

Connections

Married Dorothy Andree DeLorenzo, April. Married Patricia Mary Flannery, December 28, 1983. Children: Charles Wellington, Andrew F., Margaret East., John Y., III.

Father:

Francis Marion Pearce

Mother:

Fannie (Brown) Pearce

Spouse:

Dorothy Andree DeLorenzo

Spouse:

Patricia Mary Flannery

child:

III Pearce

child:

Margaret East. Pearce

child:

Andrew F. Pearce

child:

John Y. Pearce

child:

Charles Wellington Pearce