Cheves McCord Smythe

Background

Smythe, Cheves McCord was born on May 25, 1924.

Education

Student, Yale College, 1942—1943. Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard, 1947.

Career

Intern, assistant resident Harvard Medical Service, Boston City Hospital, 1947—1949, chief resident, 1954—1955. Resident chest service Bellevue, 1949—1950. Research fellow Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1950—1952.

Associate medicine Medical College South Carolina School Medicine, 1956—1958, assistant professor medicine, 1958—1960, associate professor medicine, 1960—1966, dean, 1963—1965. Attending physician Wesley Memorial, Cook County North Side VA Hospitals, Chicago, 1967—1970. With Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, 1990—1991.

Dean faculty health science, professor medicine Aga Khan University, Pakistan, 1982—1985, professor, chairman department medicine Pakistan, 1990—1991. Chief Medical Services at Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital, Houston, 1991—1995. Professor division general medicine department internal medicine University Texas Medical School, since 1970, dean, 1970—1975, dean pro tempore, 1995—1996.

Associate medical director Hermann Hospital, since 1996.

Achievements

• Cheves McCord Smythe has been listed as a noteworthy internist, geriatrician, educator, dean by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Association American Associate Medical Colleges.