Background
Ward, Grant Eben was born on August 28, 1896 in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. Son of Fletcher DeLay and Harriett Grace (Walker) Ward.
Ward, Grant Eben was born on August 28, 1896 in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. Son of Fletcher DeLay and Harriett Grace (Walker) Ward.
Bachelor of Arts, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, O., 1917. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1921. Honorary Doctor of Science, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, O., 1940.
Resident house officer, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1921-1922. Associate, Howard A. Kelly Hospital, Baltimore, 1922-1927. Instructor surgery, U. Maryland Medical School, 1930-1935, associate in surgery, 1935-1937, associate professor surgery, 1937-1951.
Assistant in surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1927-1932.
Instructor in surgery, 1932-1938, associate in surgery, 1938-1945, assistant professor, 1945-1949, associate professor, since 1949. Assistant visiting surgeon Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1935-1945, visiting surgeon, since 1945, lecturer oral oncology, Baltimore College Dental Surgery, U. Maryland.
Dental School 1934-1954. Company-founder, director Tumor Clinic, Johns Hopkins (named Grant East. Ward Tumor Clinic 1958).
Consulting surgeon Walter Reed General Hospital.
Consultant in treatment of tumors at United States Marine Hospital, Baltimore. Company-organizer, 1930 (with Doctor J.
Mason Hundley, Junior) and co-director Oncology Clinic, University of Maryland Medical School. Member of the board of directors, Baltimore Goodwill Industries, Incorporated. Served in South.A.T.C., 1918.
President Methodist Social Union of Baltimore, 1935-1937.
American College of Surgeons fellowship Member of the American Medical Association, Society Head and Neck Surgeons (president 1957-1958 founding.
Club: Faculty (Johns Hopkins University). Member of advisory board American Journal of Surgery.
Married Lillian Anderson Hersperger, August 16, 1922. Children: Mary Grace (Mistress George Storey Wheaton, Junior.