Background
Kent, Donald Charles was born on April 26, 1923 in Bonesteel, South Dakota, United States. Son of Charles Alfred and Thelma Marguerite (Wilson) Kent.
Kent, Donald Charles was born on April 26, 1923 in Bonesteel, South Dakota, United States. Son of Charles Alfred and Thelma Marguerite (Wilson) Kent.
Bachelor of Science, University Nebraska, Lincoln, 1943. Doctor of Medicine, University Nebraska, Omaha, 1947. Student, Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Maryland.
Rotating intern Wayne County General Hospital, Eloise, Michigan, 1947-1948. Staff physician in psychiatry Norfolk (Nebraska) Eastern State Hospital, 1947. General practice medicine, Wahoo, Nebraska, 1948-1950.
Physician C. & Northwest Railroad, 1948-1950.
County physician, Madison County, Nebraska, 1949-1950. Physician Louisiana Industrial Health Office, 1950-1951.
Lieutenant (junior grade), Medical Corps, United States Navy, 1950, advanced through grades to captain, 1963. Regimental surgeon 1st Marine Division, of Korea, 1951-1952.
Resident internal medicine, chief allergy clinic United States Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1952-1954.
Fellow Trudeau Sanitorium, Saranac Lake, New York, 1954. Officer-in-charge Cardiopulmonary Laboratory, United States.Naval Hospital, Saint Albans, New York, 1954-1956. Officer-in-charge United States NavalDispensary, Nice, France, 1956-1958.
Post physician United States Consulate, Nice, France, 1956-1958.
Post physician Foreign Svc. Language School, Nice, France, 1957-1958.
Chief of medicine, Executive officer United States Naval Hospital, Bainbridge, Maryland., 1958-1960. Consultant internal medicine United States Army Hospital, Aberdeen, Maryland., 1958-1960.
Fellow pulmonary disease research Cardiovasc.
Research Institute, San Francisco, 1960-1961. Chief pulmonary diseases and infectious disease service and cardiopulmonary laboratory United States Naval Hospital, San Diego, 1961-1963, chief of medicine, 1970-1971. Director Cardiopulmonary Technicians School, United States Navy, 1961-1963.
Clinical instructor medicine University of California, San Francisco, 1960-1961.
Member attending staff San Diego County Hospital, 1963. Head chest service, chief oxygen therapy and cardiopulmonary function laboratory, assistant chief medical service United States Naval Hospital, Saint Albans, 1963-1965.
Consultant Veterans Administration Hospital., Castle Point, New York, 1963-1967, Nassau County Tuberculosis. Sanatorium, Farmingdale, New York, 1963-1965.
Clinician Nassau County Department Health Chest Clinics, 1963-1965.
Assistant clinical professor medicine Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1965-1967. Attending Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, 1964-1967, Syosset Hospital andManhasset Medical Center Hospitals, 1963-1965. Director interns United States Naval Hospital, Saint Albans, 1964-1967, chief of medicine, 1965-1967, director postgraduate medical education, 1965-1967.
Medical consultant medical department United Nations, New York City, 1965-1967.
Guest lecturer pulmonary physiology United States Naval School Submarine Medicine, Groton, Connecticut, 1964-1967. Commanding officer Naval Medical Research Unit Northern 3, Cairo, The United Arab Republic and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1967-1970.
Guest lecturer Haile Selassie I Medical School, Addis Ababa, 1967-1970, Cairo University, 1967-1970, Ein Shams Medical School, Cairo, 1967-1970, American U. Beirut, 1968-1970. Post physician American Embassy, Cairo, 1967-1970.
Associate clinical professor medicine University of California, San Diego School Medicine, 1970-1971.
Retired, United States Navy 1971. Medical director National Tuberculosis. and Respiratory Disease Association, 1971-1973. Attending physician chest service Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1972-1973, 74-82.
Associate professor clinical medicine New York University, 1972-1973, 74-82.
Director medicine Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, 1973-1974. Clinical professor medicine State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1973-1974, attending physician, 1973-1974.
Clinical professor environmental medicine New York University, 1981-1982, attending physician U. Hospital Medicine, New York City, 1976-1982. National chairman National Interagy.
Council on Smoking and Health, 1973-1976.
Medical director Life Extension Institute, New York City, 1974-1982, vice president, 1974-1978, editor Guidelines, 1974-1978, senior vice president, 1975-1978. Consultant National Lung Association, 1973-1982. Medical director Electric Boat division General dynamics corporation, 1982-1988, 92-93, consultant, 1988.
Associate medical director Pan American World Airways, John F Kennedy International Airport, New York City, 1988-1991, also numerous other companies in New York City.
Staff physician Occupl. Health Center, Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, Groton, Connecticut 1995.
Contract physician Pfizer Control Research, Groton, 1995. Consultant International Business Machines Corporation, International PaperCo., Continental Can Company, West.T. Grant Company, 1974-1982, General dynamics corporation and Reactor Plant Superior vena cava syndrome, 1988-1992, Pan American World Airways, 1991, Occupl.
Medicine Center, Pequot Health Center, Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, Groton, Connecticut, 1995.
Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Chest Physicians, New York Academy Medicine, Royal Society Tropical Medicine, Royal Society Medicine, Explorers Club. Member Brooklyn Thoracic Society, American Lung Association, American federation Clinical Research, New York Trudeau Society (program chairman 1966-1967), American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Tuberculosis. and Health Association, New York State American Public Health Association, Undersea Medical Society, American Occupational and Environmental Medicine Association, National Tuberculosis. Association, Association Military Surgeons (life, Stitt award 1971), Society Occupational and Environmental Health, Navy League United States, Medical Executives New York City, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Anna I. Marshall, May 2, 1953. Children: Martha, Michael, Sara, Christopher.