Background
Pratt, Edward Lowell was born on December 19, 1913 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert Stone and Anna (Lowell) Pratt.
Pratt, Edward Lowell was born on December 19, 1913 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert Stone and Anna (Lowell) Pratt.
Graduate, Peddie School, 1932. Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1940.
Intern bacteriology and pathology, Infants and Childrens Hospital, Boston, 1940-1941; assistant resident pediatrics, Childrens Hospital, Boston, 1942-1943; senior resident pediatrics, Childrens Hospital, 1943-1944; senior fellow pediatrics, National Research Council at Yale, 1946-1948; senior fellow pediatrics, Cambridge (England) University, 1948-1949; associate professor pediatrics, New York University College Medicine visiting physician Bellevue Hospital and attending physician, University Hospital, 1949-1954; professor pediatrics, department chairman University Texas Southwestern Medical School, also chief staff, Childrens Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, 1954-1963; B. K. Rachford professor pediatrics, director Department, University Cincinnati (College Medicine), 1963-1979; professor pediatrics, U. Cincinnati (College Medicine), 1979-1988. Physician executive director Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, also director Childrens Hosp.Research Foundation, 1963-1979. Director pediatrics and contagious division Cincinnati General Hospital, 1963-1979.
Member medical exchange teams to, Greece and Italy, 1947, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel, 1958. Member American Pediatric Society (president 1976), Society Pediatric Research (president 1958), American Society Clinical Investigation, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Esther Fillmore, August 28, 1940. 1 son, Lowell Albert.