Edwin Lawrence Kendig

Background

Kendig, Edwin Lawrence was born on November 12, 1911 in Victoria, Virginia, United States. Son of Edwin Lawrence and Mary McGuire (Yates) Kendig.

Education

Bachelor magna cum laude, Hampden-Sydney College, 1932; Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, Hampden-Sydney College, 1933; Doctor of Science (honorary), Hampden-Sydney College, 1971; Doctor of Medicine, University of Virginia, 1936.

Career

House officer, Medical College Virginia Hospital, Richmond house officer, Bellevue Hospital, New York City house officer, Babies Hospital, Wilmington, North Carolina house officer, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1936-1940; instructor pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, 1944; private practice, Richmond, 1940-1994; director child chest clinic, Medical College Virginia, 1944-1994; professor pediatrics, Medical College Virginia, since 1958; chief of staff, St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, 1966-1967. Consultant on diseases of chest in children, 1944-1994, William P. Buffum orator Brown U., 1978. Abraham Finkelstein Memorial lecturer U. Maryland., 1983.

Derwin Cooper lecturer Duke U., 1984. Renato Ma Guerrero lecturer U. SantoTomas, Manila, 1984. Bakwin Memorial lecturer New York University-Bellevue Hospital, 1986.

Achievements

• Edwin Lawrence Kendig has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children: Pulmonary Disorders v. 1
  • Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children: Pulmonary Disorders v. 1
  • Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children

Membership

Chairman Richmond Board Health, 1961-1963. Board visitors University of Virginia, 1961-1972. Former member board directors Virginia Hospital Svc.

Association; former official examiner American Board Pediatrics. Member White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960. President alumni advising committee University of Virginia School Medicine, Charlottesville, 1974-1975.

Past board directors Maymont Foundation, Richmond. Board directors Children's Hospital, 1985-1997, Children's Hospital Foundation, 1985-1997, Sheltering Arms Hospital. Former member of advisory board Center for Study of Mind and Human Interaction, U. Va.Sch.

Medicine, 1988; member steering committee One Hundred Twenty Fifth Anniversary, Medical College of VA Hospitals, 1986. Board directors St. Mary's Health Care Foundation, 1990. Member American Medical Association (pediatrics residency review committee), American Academy Pediat.

(past pres.Va. section, chairman of the section on diseases of chest, member Executive Board 1971-1978,national president 1978-1979, Abraham Jacobi Memorial award with American Medical Association, 1987, cons.com. on international child health), American Academy Pediat. for Latin American (official advisory to Executive Board 1988), Virginia Board Medicine (former president), Richmond Academy Medicine (president 1962, chairman of the board of trustees 1963), Virginia Pediat. Society (past president), American Pediat. Society, Southern Medical Association, Southern Society Pediat.

Research, International Pediat. Association (consultant, standing committee, medal 1986), Medical Society Virginia (editor Virginia Medical Quarterly 1982-1998, resolution of recognition), Society Cincinnati, Raven, Commonwealth Country Club of Virginia, FarmingtonClub, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Tau Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Omicron Delta Kappa.

Connections

Married Emily Virginia Parker, March 22, 1941. Children: Anne Randolph (Mistress R.F. Young), Mary Emily Corbin (Mistress T.T. Rankin).

Father:

Edwin Lawrence Kendig

Mother:

Mary McGuire (Yates) Kendig

Spouse:

Emily Virginia Parker

child:

Mary Emily Corbin Kendig (Mistress T.T. Rankin)

child:

Anne Randolph Kendig (Mistress R.F. Young)