Francis James Braceland

Background

Braceland, Francis James was born on July 22, 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

AB, LaSalle College, Philadelphia, 1926. Doctor of Science, LaSalle College, 1941. Doctor of Humane Letters, Canisius College, 1956.

Doctor of Science, College of Holy Cross, 1956. Doctor of Letters, 1965. Doctor of Letters, Catholic University America, 1957.

Doctor of Letters, Northwestern University, 1957. Doctor of Letters, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1958. Doctor of Letters, Fairfield University, 1961.

Doctor of Letters, University Hartford, 1964. Doctor of Science, Georgetown University School Medicine, 1977.

Career

Resident physician, Jefferson Medical Hospital, Philadelphia, 1930-1932; clinical director, assistant physician, Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental Disease, Philadelphia, 1932-1935; clinical director, Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental Disease, Philadelphia, 1937-1938; assistant physician, Burgholzi Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland., 1935-1936; assistant physician, National Hospital, Queen Sq, London., 1936; psychiatrist, Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1937-1941; psychiatrist, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1940-1941; instructor psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1936-1938; assistant professor psychiatry, Graduate School Medcine, University of Pennsylvania, 1938-1941; dean School Medicine, University of Chicago, 1941-1946; professor psychiatry, Grad School, University of Minnesota, 1946-1951; head section psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1946-1951; psychiatrist-in-chief, Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, 1951-1965; senior consultant, Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, 1965-1984; retired, Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, 1984; clinical professor psychiatry, Yale University, 1951-1968. Lecturer psychiatry Harvard University, 1960-1966. Visiting professor department psychiatry U.Conn.

Health Center, 1974-1984. Consultant Hartford Hospital, St. Francis Hospital,1952-1984, vice president World Psychiatric Association, 1961-1966.

Achievements

• Francis James Braceland has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman National Health Forum, 1957. Captain Medical Corps United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Rear admiral Reserve retired.

Chief neuropsychiatry division Bureau Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, 1944-1946. Consultant psychiatrist to Surgeon General, United States Navy. Consultant Special Medical Advisory Bd, VA.

Appointed Armed Forces Medical Advisory Committee, 1949. Fellow American College of Physicians, College Physicians Philadelphia, American Psychiatric Association (pres.1957, Distinguished Service award 1976). Member World Psychiatric Association (vice president 61-66, Distinguished Service award 1971, American Medical Association, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (president 1957, chairman bd.trustees 1969-1970, Distinguished Service award 1970), New York Academy of Sciences, New York Academy Medicine (honorary member, chairman Salmon committee on psychiatry and mental hygiene 1959-1976, Salmon medal for distinguished service to psychiatry 1972).

Honorary member Royal College Psychiatrists, Spanish, German, Peruvian psychiatric associations.

Connections

Son of John Jay and Margaret (L'Estrange) B. Married Hope Van Gelder Jenkins, June 1, 1938. Children: John Michael, Mary Faith Kerrigan.

Father:

John Jay Braceland

Mother:

Margaret (L'Estrange) Braceland

Spouse:

Hope Van Gelder Jenkins

child:

John Michael Braceland

child:

Mary Faith Kerrigan Braceland