Background
Dammin, Gustave John was born on September 17, 1911 in New York City. Son of Gustave Frank and Anna Barbara (Anselm) Dammin.
Dammin, Gustave John was born on September 17, 1911 in New York City. Son of Gustave Frank and Anna Barbara (Anselm) Dammin.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1934; Doctor of Medicine Cornell Univercity, 1938; certificate in parasitology and tropical medicine, U. Havana, 1937; Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard, 1953.
Intern medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1938-1939;
assistant resident in medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1939-1940;
pathologist in chief, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1952-1974;
consultant, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, from 1974;
member of advisory medical board, Leonard Wood Memorial, from 1969;
acting chief laboratory service, West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital., 1976-1977;
associate chief laboratory service, West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital., 1978-1981;
consultant, West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital., from 1981. Instructor Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1940-1941. Assistant professor pathology, then associate professor Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, 1946-1950, professor, Chairman of the Board, 1950-1952.
Professor pathology Harvard Medical School, 1952-1962, Elsie T. Friedman professor pathology, 1962-1978, professor emeritus, from 1978. Lecturer tropical public health Harvard School Public Health, from 1978. Niles lecturer Cornell Medical College, 1953.
Phi Delta Epsilon lecturer Yale School Medicine, 1956. I.W. Held lecturer Beth Israel Hospital, New York City, 1963. Wadsworth lecturer New York Lab Society, Syracuse, 1970.
Consultant to surgeon general Department of Army, United States Public Health Service. National consultant global preventive medicine and epidemiology to surgeon general United States Air Force. Laboratory consultant OCDM, 1950-1960.
President Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1960-1973. Science advisory board Armed Forces Institute Pathology, 1961-1971. World Health Organization expert advisory panel on enteric diseases, Chairman of Commission, 1963.
Member subcommittee geographic Pathology National Research Council, 1962-1965. Board directors Gorgas Memorial Institute, from 1967. National consultant to surgeon general United States Air Force, 1968.
Member science advising committee N.E. Regional Primate Research Center. Member committee Yugoslavian Endemic Nephropathy, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970-1975. Kidney advising committee Joint Commission Accreditation Hospitals, 1972-1976.
Member Cholera advising committee National Institutes of Health, from 1965. Member international Centers Committee National Institutes of Health, 1972. Delegate United States-JapanCo-operation Medical Sciences Program, Department State, from 1972.
Served from 1st lieutenant to lieutenant colonel Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1941-1946. Director laboratories division Office Surgeon General 1945-1946. Colonel Reserve retired.
Member National Academy of Sciences (member ad hoc committees division medical science 1970), New York Academy of Sciences, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, International Academy Pathology (executive council), American Medical Association (vice chairman section pathology and physiology), Transplantation Society, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Society Experimental Pathology, Association American Physicians, National Institutes of Health (tropical medicine and parasitology study section), Society Medical Consultant to the Armed Forces (president 1963), Infectious Diseases Society of America, Association Military Surgeons, Association United States Army, Japanese-American Society Pathologists, Association Mexican Pathologists, Korean Medical Association, 38th Parallel Medical Society Korea, American Association of University Professors, Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (president 1974-1977), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Anita Coffin, July 19, 1941. Children: Susan, Tristram, Abigail.