Isaac Abt

Background

Abt was born in 1867 in Wilmington, Will County, Illinois.

Career

He was one of the first United States. physicians to specialize in pediatrics and he authored an influential textbook in the first part of the 20th century. As a teenager, Abt worked in a pharmacy, where his interest in medicine intensified. He attended West Division High School in Chicago, then went to Johns Hopkins University.

At Johns Hopkins, Abt received guidance from pathologist William H. Welch.

He then studied medicine at Chicago Medical College. Abt worked at Rush Medical College and Northwestern University.

He was the founding president of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1931. As of 2014, the medical school at Northwestern awards a named professorship in his honor, the Isaac A. Abt, Doctor of Medicine, Professor of Kidney Diseases.

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