Background
Fiske, James Porter was born on November 22, 1866 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Scott and Clara (Pittman) Fiske.
Fiske, James Porter was born on November 22, 1866 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Scott and Clara (Pittman) Fiske.
Educated private instruction. Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgical (Columbia), 1891.
Surgeon Charity Hospital and New York Maternity Hospital, 1891-1892. Obstetric surgeon Church Hospital and attending surgeon Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, since 1893. Attending physical North Western Dispensary, 1895-1897.
Orthopedic surgeon New York Post-Graduate Hospital, 1895-1899.
Lecturer on surgery, New York Post-Graduate Medical School, 1895-1899. Orthopedic surgeon Roosevelt Hospital, 1893-1901.
Assistant surgeon and lecturer on surgery, Cornell, 1901-1903. Assistant surgeon Bellevue Hospital, 1899-1900.
Orthopedic surgeon New York Hospital, since 1904.
Specialty, deformities and errors of development. Introduced into United States at Roosevelt Hospital, 1893, the ambulatory treatment of fractures of the legal President Guild for Crippled Children of the Poor of New York City, 1905-1907. Attending surgeon Free School for Crippled Children, 1901-1913.
Charter member West. H. Davis School for Crippled Children.
Manager New York Eastern State Hospital for Crippled and Deformed Children, since 1908. Secretary American Posture League, New York, since 1922.
Fellow New York Academy Medicine. Commissioned captain and surgeon, Medical Roman Catholic, August 5, 1917.
Married Amy Treadwell, June 14, 1906.