Background
Maxfield, James Robert was born on November 11, 1910 in Grand Saline, Texas, United States. Son of James Robert and Marie (Streeter) Maxfield.
Maxfield, James Robert was born on November 11, 1910 in Grand Saline, Texas, United States. Son of James Robert and Marie (Streeter) Maxfield.
Bachelor of Arts, Doctor of Medicine Baylor University, 1935; Doctor Aerospaceology, Air Force Systems Command, 1966.
Intern, United Hospital, Port Chester, New York, 1935-1936;
resident radiology, Baylor University, 1937-1939;
resident roentgenology, University of California at San Francisco, 1939-1940;
director department radiology, also, Mattie Fair Memorial Tumor Clinic, Parkland Hospital, Dallas, 1941-1943;
director department radiology, chairman tumor clinic, St. Paul's Hospital, Dallas, 1941-1945;
clinical assistant professor radiology, Southwestern Medical School, University Texas, since 1945;
section chief radiology branch, VA. Hospital, 1945-1949;
consultant radioisotope unit, Lisbon Veterans Administration Hospital., 1949-1950;
consultant radioisotope unit, Los Alamos Science laboratories, 1949-1957;
consultant radioisotope unit, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California
director, Texas Radiation and Tumor Institute, Dallas, since 1946. Lecturer Blackford Memorial Cancer Lectures, Grayson County Medical Society, 1957. Equen Memorial lecturer Georgia Medical Society, 1958.
Member regional advisory councilnuclear energy Southern Governor's Conference. Member Texas Governor's Radiation Study Commission, Atomic Energy Commission. Past member of advisory committee division isotope development.
Past chairman Texas Radiation Advisory Board. Member permanent advising committee Southern Interstate Nuclear Board. Member energy committee Southern States Energy Board.
Member Texas Hospital Advisory Committee;director Texas Law Enforcement and Youth Development Foundation. Member of national advisory board American Security Council, Washington. Member Virgin Islands Governor's Advisory Council on Marine Activities, since 1980.
Member power plant Siting Committee State Texas. Secretary-treasurer American College Hyperbaric Medicine. Member International College Hyperbaric Medicine.
Board trustees, past president Dallas Health and Science Museum. Trustee Florida Institute Technology, Melbourne. Past trustee Episcopal Radio-television Foundation.
Past national commissioner for Texas, Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge. Member Florida Council of 100. Board directors The New Direction Scholarship Program.
Aide-de-camp Governor's Staff of State Louisiana. Fellow International College Surgeons, American College Nuclear Medicine (secretary-treas, past president, gold medal for outstanding service to nuclear medicine 1979). Associate fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Member American, Southern medical associations, Texas, Dallas County medical societies, American College Radiology, Radiological Society N.A., Inter-American Congress Radiology, American Radium Society, British Institute Radiology, Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Rocky Mountain radiological societies, Society Nuclear Medicine (secretary, treasurer, past president), Flying Physicians Association, Airplane Owners and Pilots Association, Society of South Pole, Dallas Executives Association, Dallas Chamber of C., Commercial Space Industries, Texas Medical Association (fifty-year club), Texas Rangers Association (life).
Married Kathryn Morgan Jester, August 21, 1936. Children— James Robert III, Morgan Jester, Jordan Henley Work Streeter (deceased), Jordan World War II.