Background
Sims, Ethan Allen Hitchcock was born on April 22, 1916 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of William Sowden and Anne (Hitchcock) Sims.
Sims, Ethan Allen Hitchcock was born on April 22, 1916 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of William Sowden and Anne (Hitchcock) Sims.
AB, Harvard University, 1938; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1942; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Vermont, 1992.
Research fellow, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1946-1947; instructor, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1947-1950; from assistant professor to associate professor, College Medicine, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1950-1967; professor medicine, College Medicine, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1967-1991; professor emeritus, U. Vermont, Burlington, since 1991; Commonwealth fellow, Case Western Reserve School Medicine, Cleveland, 1964-1965; Commonwealth fellow, Tufts U. School Medicine, Boston, 1974-1975. Consultant Sims Obesity/Nutrition National Institutes of Health Research Center, College Medicine, U. Vermont, since 1992.
Trustee, chairman Unitarian Church, Burlington, 1960-1966. Founding member Wake Robin Continuing Care Community, Shelburne, Vermont, since 1986. Trustee Ethan Allen Homestead Trust, Burlington, since 1987.
Served as lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946, PTO. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Society Clinical Nutrition (former member editorial board), Endocrine Society, American Diabetes Association, American Medical Informatics Association, North America Association for Study of Obesity.
Married Dorothea Foote Merriman, August 5, 1939. Children: Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Dorothea Foote, Nathaniel M.