Background
Newsom, Francis Carter was born on May 14, 1918 in Union Point, Georgia, United States. Son of Erle Thornton and Ethel (Perry) Newsom.
Newsom, Francis Carter was born on May 14, 1918 in Union Point, Georgia, United States. Son of Erle Thornton and Ethel (Perry) Newsom.
Student, University Georgia, 1935—1937. Student, Emory University, 1939—1940. Doctor of Medicine, Medical College Georgia, 1943.
Intern Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1944. Resident psychiatry Veterans Administration Hospital, Topeka, 1946—1949. Research fellow Menninger School Psychiatry, 1946—1949.
Staff psychiatrist Topeka State Hospital, 1949—1950. Private practice medicine specializing psychiatry Wichita, Kansas, since 1951. Clinical assistant professor psychiatry University Kansas School Medicine, since 1974.
Consultant Veterans Administration Medical & Regional Office Center, 1951—1985. Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1944-1946, served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1950-1951.
Active medical staff St. Francis Regional Medical Center, since 1951. President medical staff St. Francis Hospital, 1968. With Sedgwick County Department Mental Health, since 1986.
Fellow: American Psychological Association. Member: American Medical Association, Medical Society Sedgwick County (board directors 1970-1973), Kansas Medical Society, Kansas Psychiatric Society.
Married Mary Elizabeth Varner, March 20, 1943. Children: Barbara Ann, Mary Carter.