Background
Jesurún, Harold Méndez was born on December 24, 1915 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Son of Willy and Esterlinda (Méndez) Jesurún.
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Harold Méndez Jesurún
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Education
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1937; Doctor of Medicine University of Michigan, 1940.
Career
Intern,, Kings County (New York) Hospital, Brooklyn, 1940-1941;
commissioned First lieutenant Medical Corps,, United States Army, 1941;
advanced through grades to colonel, United States Army, 1959;
area medical director, British Guiana, 1942-1943;
malariologist, New Guinea, 1943-1944;
chief provincial health officer, Taegu, Korea, 1945-1946;
Executive officer, chief cholera control officer, Korea, 1946;
assistant resident, Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, 1947-1948;
resident to chief senior resident, Brooke General Hospital, San Antonio, 1948-1950;
assistant chief, obstetrics-gynecology service, 1952-1955;
chief obstetrics-gynecology, William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas, 1950-1951;
chief obstetrics-gynecology, Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1951-1952;
chief obstetrics-gynecology, United States Army Hospital, Fort Ord, California, 1952;
chief obstetrics-gynecology, Rodriguez Army Hospital, San Juan, 1955-1958;
chief obstetrics-gynecology, chief instructor obstetrics-gynecology, Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, 1958-1962;
chief obstetrics-gynecology service, deputy commander, United States Army 97th General Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany, 1962-1966;
chief obstetrics-gynecology service, assistant chief professional service, Madigan General Hospital, Tacoma, 1966-1967;
retired, Madigan General Hospital, 1967;
program director obstetrics-gynecology, St. Michael Hospital, Newark
and associate clinical professor, New Jersey College Medicine and Dentistry, 1967-1969;
clinical director obstetrics-gynecology, R.E. Thomason General Hospital, El Paso, 1969-1973. Project director Family Planning, Office of Economic Opportunity, El Paso, 1970-1973. Clinical investigator American Women's Health Program, Temple University, 1972-1973.
Professor obstetrics-gynecology University Texas-Houston, 1973-1981. Clinical professor obstetrics-gynecology Texas Technology U. Medical School, 1981-1994. Assistant professor obstetrics Baylor Medical School, 1954-1955.
Obstetrics-gynecology consultant United States Army Europe, 1962-1966. Consultant 6th United States Army Area, San Francisco, 1958-1962.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors, president El Paso chapter American Cancer Society, 1971-1972, board directors Houston chapter, 1975. Fellow American College of Surgeons, American College Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Medical Conservation to Armed Forces, Houston Ob-Gyn Society, Texas Association Ob-Gyn, American Association Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Bishop Alonso Manso Society (vice president 1957-1958), Association Military Surgeons, El Paso County Medical Society, American Med.Soc.
Vienna (Austria) (life), Phi Rho Sigma (vice president Zeta chapter 1939-1940).
Connections
Married Dolores López y Piñero, May 17, 1947. Children: Carlos Antonio, John Alberto, Maria Celeste, Richard James.
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Nationality
American