Background
Shattuck, George Cheever was born on October 12, 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frederick Cheever and Elizabeth Perkins (Lee) Shattuck.
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George Cheever Shattuck
Edit ProfileEducation
Noble and Greenough School, 1892-1897. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1901, honorary Master of Arts, 1919. Doctor of Medicine Harvard University Medical School, 1905.
Medical study in Vienna, 1907-1908.
Career
Step-sons, Francis West. Peabody, Grigsby C. Peabody. physician to out-patients, later assistant visiting physician Massachusetts General Hospital, 1912-1921. Member American Red Cross Commission to Serbia (combating typhus fever), 1915. Major medical service, Harvard Surgical Unit, B.E.F., 1916.
Temporary honorary major, Royal Army Medical Corps, Harvard Unit, 1917-1919.
General medical secretary League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva, 1919-1921. Member visiting staff Boston City Hospital, 1921-1941.
Attending specialist in tropical medicine, United States Marine Hospital, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1923. Member Hamilton Rice 7th Expedition to Amazon, 1924-1925.
Consultant tropical diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital since 1928.
Member of faculty Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 1933-1962. Clinical professor tropical medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, 1938-1947. Emeritus; consultant tropical diseases Boston City Hospital, from 1941.
Consultant to secretary of war on tropical medicine, 1941-1944.
Consultant in tropical diseases, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, emeritus, also Victoria and Albert, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1945-1952, Victoria and Albert Boston and Farmingham since 1952. Adviser to Resources Division, Office of Quartermaster General, War Department, 1942.
President Boston Health League, Incorporated., 1939-1949. President Massachusetts Central Health Council, 1938-1948.
Chairman Health Council United Community Services, Boston, 1950-1953.
President Brookline Citizens Committee, 1941.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Red Cross Commission to Serbia (combating typhus fever), 1915. Member visiting staff Boston City Hospital, 1921-1941. Member Hamilton Rice 7th Expedition to Amazon, 1924-1925.
Member of faculty Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 1933-1962.
Member Massachusetts Medical Society, American Public Health Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Tropical Medicine (president 1947-1948), American Society Tropical Medicine, Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (local secretary for United States, 1939-1949), Nature Conservancy (governor 1956-1962, Massachusetts representative 1957-1970. Member), Pan. American Society New England (governor 1941-1965).
Member Honorary Public Health Society, Sigma Xi, Delta Omega, Beta Chapter.
Connections
Married Virginia Grigsby Chandler (Peabody), July 9, 1932.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Awarded Serbia Order of Saint Sava of III Class, 1918. Distinguished Service Order (Great Britain), 1919. Theobold Smith Medal, American Academy Tropical Medicine, 1954.tempSpaceOrden Nacional de Merito Commendador, Carlos J. Findlay, Cuba, 1950. Orden Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul, Oficial, Brazil, 1958. Professor Honorario, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, 1956.tempSpaceRichard Pearson Strong medal American Foundation Tropical Medicine. Bronze medal New England Wild Flower Society, 1965.Awarded Serbia Order of Saint Sava of III Class, 1918. Distinguished Service Order (Great Britain), 1919. Theobold Smith Medal, American Academy Tropical Medicine, 1954.tempSpaceOrden Nacional de Merito Commendador, Carlos J. Findlay, Cuba, 1950.
Orden Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul, Oficial, Brazil, 1958. Professor Honorario, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, 1956.tempSpaceRichard Pearson Strong medal American Foundation Tropical Medicine. Bronze medal New England Wild Flower Society, 1965.