Background
Durham, Davis Godfrey was born on November 18, 1914 in Warren, Pennsylvania, United States.
Durham, Davis Godfrey was born on November 18, 1914 in Warren, Pennsylvania, United States.
Degree, University Pennsylvania, 1937. Doctor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, 1943.
Intern Delaware Hospital, Wilmington, 1943. Private practice, since 1946. Consultant opthalmologist Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia.
Senior staff director department ophthalmology Wilmington Medical Center, 1966—1973. Assistant clinical professor ophthalmology Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Director department ophthalmology Project Hope, 1962—1970.
Associate department surgery, section ophthalmology St. Francis Hospital, Wilmington. Associate St. Luke's Cataract and I.O.L. Clinic, Tarpon Springs, Florida. With Medical Corps United States Army, 1944-1946.
Fellow American College of Surgeons. Member American Medical Association, American Academy Ophthalmology (instructor 1976-1982, certified of award), Aid for International Medicine (vice-president, director), American Ophthalmological Society, New Castle County Medical Society, Delaware Academy Ophthalmology, American Intra-Ocular Implant Society, Aid for International Medicine (vice president), Delaware Academy Medicine (president 1972-1974), United Empire Loyalist, Sigma Chi (Significant Sig award 1989). Quaker.; Clubs: Explorers, Lions, Greenville Country.
Developer diamond knife for cataract surgery, 1966, pneumatic tonometer for measuring pressure in glaucoma patients, 1965.
Married Harriet Frorer Durham, May 25, 1924. Children: Davis Godfrey, James F., Andrew C., Jeffrey F., Dee.