Background
Hughes, James G. was born on September 11, 1910 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Allen Hughes.
Hughes, James G. was born on September 11, 1910 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Allen Hughes.
Bachelor, Rhodes College, Memphis, 1932. Doctor of Medicine, University Tennessee, Memphis, 1935.
Rotating intern, City of Memphis Hospital, 1935-1937;
resident in pediatrics, City of Memphis Hospital, 1938-1939;
pediatrician-in-chief, City of Memphis Hospital, 1960-1976;
resident in pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1937-1938;
instructor pediatric postgraduate education, Oklahoma Medical Association, 1940-1942;
associate professor pediatrics, U. Tennessee College Medicine, 1946-1952;
professor, U. Tennessee College Medicine, 1952-1976;
department chairman, U. Tennessee College Medicine, 1960-1976;
professor emeritus, U. Tennessee College Medicine, since 1976. Chief staff Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, 1959-1960, medical director,1972-1976, now senior consultant Center for Children in Crisis. Former member Com.for Certified in Child Psychiatry.
Honorary professor of University Guadalajara, Mexico, U. San Carlos de Borromeo, Guatemala. Consultant World Health Organization, 1955. Pediatric consultant Rockefeller Foundation, 1956.
Consultant Alliance for Progress program unites states department State, Brazil, 1963. Pediatric consultant to surgeon general United States Army, 1954, 59, 72.
(735 p. illus. 26 cm)
Senior warden Calvary Episcopal Church, Memphis, since 1978. Trustee Institute for Pediatric Service, Johnson and Johnson Company, since 1979. Colonel Medical corpus, United States army, 1942-1945, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, brigadier general Reserve retired.
Member American Medical Association (Abraham Jacobi award 1975), American Academy Pediatrics (president 1965-1966, Pediatrician of Year award Tennessee chapter 1990), Society for Pediatric Research, Southern Society for Pediatric Research, International Pediatric Association, Association Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen, Tennessee Medical Association, Tennessee Pediatric Society, Memphis and Shelby County Medical Association, Memphis and Mid-South Pediatric Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Chi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Sigma. Honorary member numerous foreign pediatric societies.
Married Jane Barker, 1935. Children: Allen H., Jane Hughes Coble, Sarah Hughes Smith, Anne Hughes Sayle.