Background
Gates, Edwin Wilder was born on May 18, 1900 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Edwin Lewis and Alice (Wilder) Gates.
Gates, Edwin Wilder was born on May 18, 1900 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Edwin Lewis and Alice (Wilder) Gates.
Bachelor of Science, Colby College, 1922. Honorary Doctor of Science, Colby College, 1968. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard, 1926.
Intern, United States Marine Hospital, S.I., New York, 1926-1927;
resident, United States Marine Hospital, 1927-1929;
chief medicine, Mount St. Mary's Hospital, 1947-1950;
chief staff, Mount St. Mary's Hospital, 1950-1954;
honorary consultant diabetes, Mount St. Mary's Hospital, from 1966;
chief medicine, Niagara Falls (New York) Memorial Hospital, 1950-1967;
head division diabetes, Niagara Falls (New York) Memorial Hospital, 1959-1969;
honorary chief medicine, Niagara Falls (New York) Memorial Hospital, from 1967;
director, Katherine Nye Bartlett Diabetic Teaching Unit, from 1966. Instructor medicine Niagara U. School Nursing, 1947-1950. Established NiagaraFalls Diabetes Association, 1954.
Continuous general medical audit Niagara FallsMeml. Hospital, 1955; public medical forums Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital and Mount St. Mary's Hospital, 1957, division diabetes Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital, 1959, Doctor Charles H. Best Birthplace Trust, Inc., 1959.
Treasurer Niagara Falls Community Chest, 1946-1949. Board of directors Children's Aid Society, 1933-1935, Niagara Falls Young Men’s Christian Association, 1933-1939. Served with United States Army,1918.
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Diabetes Association (board directors 1955-1969, president 1967-1968, Banting medal 1968), American Medical Association, Buffalo Academy Medicine, Niagara County Medical Society, New York State Medical Society (chairman subcommittee diabetes 1951), American, Western New York societies internal medicine, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Agnes Jessie Cameron, December 22, 1922. 1 son, Edwin Wilder.