Eugene P. Pendergrass

Background

Pendergrass, Eugene P. was born on October 6, 1895 in Florence, South Carolina, United States. Son of Edward J. and E. Ethel (Smith) Pendergrass.

Education

Student, Wofford College, 1912-1914; Doctor of Science (honorary), Wofford College, 1959; student, University North Carolina, 1914-1916; Doctor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1918.

Career

Intern, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1918-1919; associate director department radiology, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1922-1939; director, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1939-1961; president medical staff, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1949-1953; assistant professor Graduate School Medicine,, University of Pennsylvania, 1928-1937; professor radiology, University of Pennsylvania, from since 1937; professor School Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1931-1961; professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, 1961-1964; Doctor Matthew J. Wilson professor research radiology, University of Pennsylvania, from 1964; director bicentennial observance School Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1962-1965. Consultant 2d Army Area. Resident consultant Armed Forces Institute Pathology special medical advisory group VA.

Special consultant United States Public Health Service, also member pneumoconiosis committee. Director Picker Foundation, 1959. Chairman visiting committee Brookhaven National laboratories, 1959.

Member cancer control chairman, board science counsellors National Cancer Institute. Member Biking Safety Commission, 1946. Member war commission on safety Code American Standards Association.

Secretary-general Inter-American Congress Radiology, Washington, 1955. Member of advisory committee Selective Service System. Investigator Office of Scientific Research and Development.

Member commission on radiology National Research Council. Also others.

Achievements

• Eugene P. Pendergrass has been listed as a noteworthy Radiology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Pneumoconiosis Silicosis: a Roentgenological Study With Notes on Pathology
  • The Head and Neck in Roentgen Diagnosis (Volumes 1 & 2)

Membership

Lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve Force, 1918-1919. Lct. Commander Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve, 1935-1951. Fellow American College of Physicians.

Member American Medical Association (gold medal 1929), American College Radiology (president 1948-1949, chnn. board chancellors 1944-1948), American Roentgen Ray Society (award 1935, 44), Radiological Society North America (president 1954, award 1944, 46), American Cancer Society (executive committee, director, president 1958-1959), Philadelphia County Medical Society (president 1943-1944), Philadelphia Reontgen Ray Society (president 1928), Philadelphia College Physicians, American Trudeau Society, Mexican Society Radiology, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Country Club, Merion Cricket Club.

Connections

Married Rebecca Barker, September 9, 1922. Children: Henry Pancoast, Jane Barker, Margaret Bradford, Huston.

Father:

Edward J. Pendergrass

Mother:

E. Ethel (Smith) Pendergrass

Spouse:

Rebecca Barker

child:

Huston Pendergrass

child:

Henry Pancoast Pendergrass

child:

Margaret Bradford Pendergrass

child:

Jane Barker Pendergrass