Background
Root, Howard Frank was born on August 28, 1890 in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. Son of Frank Lane and Clara B. (Squire) Root.
Root, Howard Frank was born on August 28, 1890 in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States. Son of Frank Lane and Clara B. (Squire) Root.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1913, Doctor of Medicine 1919. H H.D., Suffolk University, 1953.
February 9, 1954); married second, Kathleen Berger. House officer Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1919-1920. May fellow Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
Practice of medicine, Boston, since 1921.
Medical director of Joslin Clinic, since 1962. Physician-in-chief New England Deaconess Hospital.
Lecturer medicine Harvard Medical School.
Served as Lieutenant commander of The United States Navy Reserve, surgeon United States Public Health Service. Member American College Physicians, American Society Clin, Investigation, American College Chest Physicians, Massachusetts Medical Society (past president), American Diabetes Association (past president), International Diabetes Federation (president since 1961), American Therapeutic Society, American Endocrine Society, American Clinical and Climatological Association, American Society Nutrition, Diabetes Foundation, Incorporated. (president) Massachusetts Society Internal Medicine (past president), Phi Beta Kappa, also Sigma Xi.
Married Hester King, October 8, 1921 (deceased. Married second, Kathleen Berger.