Background
Lehman, Edwin Partridge was born on June 9, 1888 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin N. and Emily (Partridge) Lehman.
Lehman, Edwin Partridge was born on June 9, 1888 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin N. and Emily (Partridge) Lehman.
Bachelor of Arts, Williams, 1910. Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1914, John Harvard fellow, 1913-1914.
Surgical house officer, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1914-1915. Assistant resident surgeon, Barnes Hospital, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1915-1916. Assistant in surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, 1916-1920, instructor in surgery, 1920-1921, instructor clinical surgery, 1921-1926, assistant professor, 1926-1927, associate professor, 1927-1928, also in charge of laboratory of surgical pathology, 1916-1917.
Resident surgeon, Barnes Hospital, 1919-1920, assistant surgeon, 1922-1928.
Assistant surgeon Saint Louis Children’s Hospital, 1924-1928, Saint Louis Jewish Hospital, 1927-1928. Consultant surgeon, Saint Louis Maternity Hospital, 1927-1928.
Surgeon, Saint Louis City Hospital, 1920-1927 (chief surgeon Unit Northern 1, 1926-1927). Surgeon to out-patients, Washington University Dispensary, 1920-1928.
Professor surgery and gynecology, director Department, University of Virginia, 1928-1950, professor surgery, director department since 1950.
Chief surgeon and gynecologist University of Virginia Hospital, 1928-1950, chief surgeon since 1950. Major G. Seelig lecturer, Washington University, Saint Louis, 1949. William J. Mayo lecturer University Michigan, 1951.
First Lieutenant Medical Corps, B.E.F., 1917-1919.
Director Virginia Cancer Foundn., 1940-1944. Director American Cancer Society (vice president 1944-1945, president 1947-1948).
Certified member founders’ group American Board Surgery.
Fellow American Surgical Association (vice president 1946), Southern Surgical Association (Vice-President 1936, president 1948), International Surgical Society, Australian Computer Society (chairman cancer committee), Society University Surgeons (honorary), American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Member American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association (vice chairman section on surgery 1931, chairman, 1933.
Married Margaret Maxwell, October 1, 1921. Children: Richard, Lois Annual.