Everett Lassiter Bishop

Background

Bishop, Everett Lassiter was born on October 28, 1892 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of William Alfred and Iola (Getchell) Bishop.

Education

Student Davidson College, 1912. Doctor of Medicine, University Maryland., 1916. Postgraduate Cornell Medical school and Memorial Hospital, New York (with Doctor James Ewing), 1922-1925.

Career

Intern Oglethorpe Hospital, Savannah, 1916. Private practice medicine, Savannah, 1916-1921. Pathologist Steiner Cancer Clinic, Atlanta, 1925-1946, Winship Clinic, Emory University, since 1938, associate professor pathology (neoplastic diseases) Emory University, 1935-1947, professor pathology (neoplastic diseases) since 1947.

Consultant pathologist Emory University Hospital, Piedmont Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, since 1948, Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital., Chamblee, Georgia, 1947-1953, Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital., since 1953.

Private practice surgical pathology and cancer diagnosis, since 1932. Chief consultant in pathology Area 3 Virginia, 1946-1954.

Consultant to various hospitals in Atlanta and South.E.

Achievements

• Everett Lassiter Bishop has been listed as a noteworthy pathologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as First lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Army, 1918. Member committee American Registry of Pathology 1951-1955. Founding fellow College American Pathologists (governor 1947).

Member International Academy Pathology (member of council), 1939-1947, president 1948-1949), Georgia Association Pathologists (founder, president 1936-1946, 57-58), James Ewing Society, American Medical Association, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Society Clinical Pathologists, American Association Cancer Research, Association American Medical Colleges, American Cancer Society (director Georgia division since 1948), Southern Medical Association (chairman section pathology 1938), Medical Association Georgia (member Executive Committee cancer commission since 1945, chairman 1950, 58-59.

Mason (32°).; Club: Rotary (director 1946-1949).

Connections

Married Gladys Rose Young, April. Children: Everett L., William F., Amy Lou (Mistress C.B. Henderson).

Father:

William Alfred Bishop

Mother:

Iola (Getchell) Bishop

Spouse:

Gladys Rose Young

child:

Amy Lou Bishop (Mistress C.B. Henderson)

child:

William F. Bishop

child:

Everett L. Bishop