Frank Roberts Ober

Background

Ober, Frank Roberts was born on June 1, 1881 in Mount Desert, Maine, United States. Son of Otis Merriam and Josephine (Roberts) Ober.

Education

Doctor of Medicine Tufts University, 1905, Honorary Doctor of Science, 1943. Honorary Doctor of Science, U. Vermont, 1948.

Career

Intern Carney Hospital, Boston, 1905-1906. Intern Children’s Hospital, Boston, 1913-1914, chief orthopedic resident, 1914-1915, junior assistant orthopedic surgeon, 1915-1919, assistant orthopedic surgeon, 1919-1923, associate orthopedic surgeon, 1923-1931, chief orthopedic surgeon, 1931-1946. Assistant orthopedic surgeon New England Peabody Home for Crippled Children, 1922-1929, surgeon in chief, 1929-1946, emeritus, trustee, since 1946.

Consultant orthopedic surgeon Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, since 1936.

General practice of medicine, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1906-1913. Partner Obrebar Corporation, since 1948.

With Harvard Medical School, since 1914, beginning as alumni assistant, successively assistant orthopedic surgeon, instructor orthopedic surgery, assistant professor, clinical professor, John B. and Buckminster Brown clinical professor, assistant dean graduate courses, emeritus, since 1946.

Achievements

• Frank Roberts Ober has been listed as a noteworthy physician, educator. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member advising committee National Foundation Infantile Paralysis, since 1938. Served with United States Army, 1917-1919. Fellow Boston Medical Library, New York Academy of Sciences.

Member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Orthopedic Association (president 1943), American Rheumatism Society, Boston Orthopedic.

Mason (32).; Clubs: Saint Botolph, Harvard (Boston).

Connections

Married Ina Spurling, November 15, 1907.

Father:

Otis Merriam Ober

Mother:

Josephine (Roberts) Ober

Spouse:

Ina Spurling