Background
Shorell, Irving Daniel was born on August 29, 1898 in New York City. Son of Jacobus Myron and Fannie (Feiner) Shorell.
Shorell, Irving Daniel was born on August 29, 1898 in New York City. Son of Jacobus Myron and Fannie (Feiner) Shorell.
Bachelor of Science, Princeton University, 1918. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1919. Doctor of Medicine, Georgetown University, 1923.
Postgraduate, Johns Hopkins University. Postgraduate, Mayo Clinic. Postgraduate, various hospitals in Vienna, Austria, Heidelberg and Berlin, Germany, Paris and London.
Physician, surgeon, Washington, 1923;
house surgeon, Georgetown Hospital, Washington
member of staff, Garfield Hospital, Galliger Memorial Hospital and Emergency Hospital, Washington
member of staff, Johns Hopkins University, New York Hospital, Ruptured and Crippled Hospital, Hospital for Joint Diseases
member of staff, Polycline Hospital, New York City
principal, from 1924;
chief plastic surgeon, New York Plastic Surgery Hospital. Founder, Chairman of the Board The League to Prevent Accidents (now incorporated with National Safety Council), from 1936. Organized and sent ambulance corps to France before German invasion, 1939-1940.
Negotiated with United States Government to send ships for wounded and mutilated British citizens and soldiers, 1940. Member of commission to negotiate for German refugees who were accepted by Dominican Republic. Called by authorities to organize and plan for facially deformed victims Texas City disaster, 1947.
Advisory to State Department on South America Affairs, from 1958. Member American Medical Association, Washington Medical assosiation, New York County Medical assosiation, New York State Medical Association, Golf of Paris Club (honorary). M C.
Married Minna Weisenberg, July 20, 1920 (deceased). Children: Irma Loraine, Joan Beverly. Married Marre Farrow Goodwin, December 31, 1948 (divorced).