Background
Texter, Elmer Clinton was born on June 12, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Elmer Clinton and Helen (Rotchford) Texter.
Texter, Elmer Clinton was born on June 12, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Elmer Clinton and Helen (Rotchford) Texter.
Bachelor of Arts with honors, Michigan State University, 1943; Doctor of Medicine Wayne State University, 1946; postgraduate, U. Detroit, 1946-1947; postgraduate, New York University Postgraduate Medical School, 1948-1949; postgraduate, Northwestern University, 1959-1960; postgraduate, Williams College, 1975.
Intern, Providence Hospital, Detroit, 1946-1947;
Heart Association research fellow in medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1948-1950;
assistant physician to outpatients, New York Hospital, New York City, 1949-1950;
assistant resident medicine 3d division, New York University, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1950-1951;
instructor medicine, Duke U. School Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
assistant physician, Duke U. Hospital, 1951-1953;
associate medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1953-1956;
assistant professor medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, 1956-1961;
associate professor, Northwestern University Medical School, 1961-1968;
professor physiology adjunct, University Texas S.W. Medical School, Dallas, 1969-1972;
coordinator allied health programs, Temple (Texas) Junior College, 1969-1972;
professor medicine, physiology, biophysics College Medicine, U. Arkansas, 1972-1995;
Jerome S. Levy professor medicine (gastroenterology), U. Arkansas, 1985-1995;
director division gastroenterology, U. Arkansas, 1972-1985;
assistant dean College Health Related Professions, U. Arkansas, Little Rock, 1972-1973;
associate dean, U. Arkansas, 1973-1975;
member active staff, University Hospital, Little Rock, 1972-1995;
associate chief staff for education, University Hospital, 1972-1975;
chief gastroenterology, Veterans Administration Hospital., Little Rock, 1972-1979. Director training program in gastroenterology, 1954-1965. Attending physician Northwestern Memorial Hospital, VA Lakeside Hospital, Chicago, 1953-1968.
Associate medical director Professional Life & Casualty Company, Chicago, 1965-1968. Member of advisory board Skokie Valley Community Hospital, 1959-1968. Department chairman clinical physiology and clinical research center, consultant gastroenterology, publications sections Scott and White Clinic (Temple Texas), 1968-1972.
Consultant gastroenterology United States Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, 1963-1968. Consultant William Beaumont Regional Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas, 1968-1995. Surgeon general United States Army, 1970-1995.
Consultant St. Vincent Infirmary, Little Rock, 1973-1995, Doctors Hospital, Little Rock, Baptist Medical Center, Little Rock, 1981-1995. Director Arkansas Digestive Disease Center, 1975-1995. Consultant Arkansas regional medical program Arkansas Health Systems Foundation, 1972-1976, Council on Drugs, 1958-1995.
Member select commission on role of dietary fiber in diverticular disease and colon cancer Life Sciences Research Office Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 1980. Delegate Sino-American Conference on Drug Therapy, Beijing and Shanghai, 1980. Visiting professor U. Florida, 1956, 69, U. Tennessee, 1958, Catholic U. Leuven, 1962, 64, 71, 81, U. Zurich, 1964, Karolinska Institute, 1964, U. Gothenburg, 1964, U. Copenhagen, 1964, U. Rome, 1965, 67, 69, U. Alabama, 1971.
Active Arkansas Art Center, Arkansas Symphony Society. Board directors Wayne State Fund, Detroit, 1975-1995. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1947-1949.
Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Medical Association (commission on medical rating physical impairment 1960-1964), American Gastroenterological Association, American Federation Clinical Research (chairman gastroenterology 1956, 63), Stead Scholarship Society of Duke U., American Medical Writers Association (president 1973-1974), American Association Study Liver Disease, American Society Gastrointestinal Edoscopy, American Physiological Society, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (director 1971-1976), American College Gastroenterology (governor Southern region A 1978-1979, Board of Governors-Ark 1988-1995, national affairs committee 1988-1995), Gasteroenterology Research Group (co-founder 1955, chairman 1959), International Society Gastrointestinal Motility (co-founder 1969, chairman 1969-1961), Southern Society Clinical Investigation, Central Society Clinical Research, William Beaumont Society Gastroenterologists, Sigma Xi, Theta Alpha Phi, Delta Chi, Nu Sigma Nu.
Married Jane Starke Curtis, February 19, 1949. Children: Phyllis Cardew, Patricia Ann, Catherine Jane.