Background
Stetten, Dewitt was born on January 22, 1881 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Joseph and Bella (Rosenthal) Stetten.
Stetten, Dewitt was born on January 22, 1881 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Joseph and Bella (Rosenthal) Stetten.
Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), 1901. House staff German hospital, New York, 1901-1903. Studied Vienna, Prague and Breslau, 1904-1905.
Assistant and attdg. surgeon, German Dispensary, New York, 1905-1911. Anesthetist, German Hospital, New York, 1905-1908. Associate surgeon German Hospital, later Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, 1908-1921, Acting attending surgeon, 1921.
Attending surgeon Lenox Hill Hospital, 1922-1946.
Beth Israel Hospital, New York, 1930-1933. Consultant surgeon, Lenox Hill Hospital since 1946.
Instructor clinical surgery, College Physicians and Surgical, 1909-1918. Clinical professor surgery, New York University College of Medicine, 1931-1946.
Member Hospital Corps, 1st Battalion, New York Naval Milita, 1898-1902. Fellow American College Surgeons, American Medical Association, New York Academy Medicine, National Academy of Design, American Geography Society. Member National Audubon Society, International Society of Gastro-Enterology, American Gastro-Enterol.
Association, American Association Thoracic Surgery, National Tuberculosis Association, American Cancer Society, Association Military Surgeons of the United States, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Academy Political Science, Foreign Policy Association, Medical Society State of New York, Medical Society County of New York (president 1929, trustee, 1932-1935, Chairman of the Board 1935), New York Surgical Society, New York Society for Thoracic Surgery, New York Gastro-Enterological assosiation, New York Pathology
Society, Military Order of the World Wars, American Legion, et cetera President board of trustees Blood Tranfusion Association of New New York
Member and secretary board directors United Medical Service, Diplomate founders group American Board of Surgery. Club: Dachshund.
Married Magdalen Ernst, April. Married second, Alice Mayer, May 5, 1930. Children: Margaret (Mistress Maximilien Vanka), DeWitt, Junior.