Dwight Corwin Hanna

Background

Hanna, Dwight Corwin was born on March 15, 1922 in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Dwight C. and Florence Christina (Finger) Hanna.

Education

Student, College of Wooster, 1940-1942; Student, Pennsylvania State University, 1942-1943; Doctor of Medicine, University Pittsburgh, 1946.

Career

Intern, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 1946-1947; resident, Presbyterian and VA hospitals, Pittsburgh, 1949-1954; practice medicine specializing in plastic surgery, Pittsburgh, 1954-1987; associate staff, Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1954-1972; member attending staff, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1966-1972; member of staff, U. Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1954-1965;; member of staff, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, since 1954; president medical staff, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 1975-1978; chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 1971-1987; medical director, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 1978-1986; assistant professor surgery, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, 1954-1968; professor surgery, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, since 1984.

Achievements

• Dwight Corwin Hanna has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

National president United Presbyterian Men, 1968. Board directors Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 1981-1994. Trustee Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 1972-1991, chairman, 1974-1978.

Trustee College Wooster, Ohio, 1972-1978, 82-96, emeritus trustee, since 1996. Captain United States Army, 1944-1949. Member American College of Surgeons (board governors 1978-1984), American Society Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ethics committee 1975-1980, Special Achievement award on plastic surgery 1997), American Association Plastic Surgeons (trustee, president 1981-1982), American Society Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, American Cleft Palate Society, American Burn Association, Society Head and Neck Surgeons (treasurer 1978-1981), Pittsburgh Academy Medicine (secretary 1969-1972), Pennsylvania Medical Society, Allegheny County Medical Society (chairman medicine and religion committee 1966-1968, director 1977-1980, Ralph C. Wilde award for excellence in practice, teaching and art of medicine 1989), American Medical Association (member plastic and reconstructive residency review committee 1975-1981, chairman 1980-1981), Pittsburgh Surgical Society, Ohio Valley Plastic Surgical Society (president 1973-1974), Interstate Plastic Surgery Society, Northeast Plastic Surgery Society Clubs: Oakmont Country.

Connections

Married Jane Ruth Atkinson, September 23, 1944 (deceased October 1994). Children: Kathryn, Marilyn, Dwight, David. Married Mary Forbes Hawkins, September 30, 1995.

Father:

Dwight C. Hanna

Mother:

Florence Christina (Finger) Hanna

Spouse:

Mary Forbes Hawkins

Spouse:

Jane Ruth Atkinson

child:

David Hanna

child:

Kathryn Hanna

child:

Dwight Hanna

child:

Marilyn Hanna