Harry Metcalfe Spence

Background

Spence, Harry Metcalfe was born on October 2, 1905 in San Angelo, Texas, United States. Son of Joseph Junior and Fannie Lee (Metcalfe).

Education

Student, University Illinois. Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard, 1930.

Career

Intern, Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Massachusetts, also New England Deaconess Hospital. Surgical and urological resident Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1930-1934. Private practice Ponca City, Oklahoma, 1934-1936.

Urologist, head department Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic, 1936-1994. From clinical assistant to clinical professor urology, past chairman division urology Baylor Medical School, Southwestern Medical School, 1950-1994. Past chief urology service Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Past attending urologist Baylor University Hospital. Consultant urology to surgeon general Brooke Army Hospital, San Antonio.

Achievements

• Harry Metcalfe Spence has been listed as a noteworthy physician, surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to Commander Medical Corps United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Member American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons (regent, past board governors), American Association Genlto-urinary Surgeons (past president), American Urological Association (secretary, past president South Central section), Clinical Society Genitourinary Surgeons (past president), Société Internationale D'Urologie, British Association Urological Surgeons (honorary), Texas Surgical Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu. Clubs: Corinthian Yacht (Dallas).

Connections

Son of; married Lois G. Ames, August 9, 1940. Children: Stephen Ames, Charles Metcalfe.