Background
Felton, Jean Spencer was born on April 27, 1911 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Herman and Tess (Davidson) Felton.
Felton, Jean Spencer was born on April 27, 1911 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Herman and Tess (Davidson) Felton.
AB, Stanford University, 1931. Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University, 1935.
Intern, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco, 1934-1935; resident in surgery, Mount Zion Hospital, 1935-1936; resident in surgery, Dante Hospital, San Francisco, 1936-1938; practice medicine, San Francisco, 1938-1940; guest lecturer industrial sociology, U. Tennessee at Knoxville, 1946-1953; medical director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1946-1953; consultant department medicine, professor department preventive medicine, public health, U. Oklahoma Medical School, 1953-1958; consultant industrial hygiene, Oklahoma State Department Health, 1953-1958; past consultant, VA, St. Louis area professor occupational health, University of California Schools Medicine and Public Health, Los Angeles, 1958-1968; director occupational health service, Department Personnel, County Los Angeles, 1968-1974; medical director occupational health, Naval Regional Medical Center, Long Beach, California, 1974-1978; clinical professor community medicine, University of Southern California, 1968-1982; clinical professor emeritus, University of Southern California, since 1982; clinical professor medicine, University of California, Irvine, since 1975. Consultant occupational health National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Navy, VA, Atomic Energy Commission, United States Public Health Service, Social Security Administration, 1955-1962. Fellow through Distinction faculty occupational medicine Royal College Physicians, London, since 1997.
Past member youth service committee Oak Ridge Welfare Council, 1946-1953. Past mem.Tenn. Commision on Childen, Welfare Superior vena cava syndrome Department. Chairman, member of advisory board Oak Ridge.
Past member Governor's Committee on Utilization Physically HandicappedPres.'s Committee on Employment People with Disabilities, 1947-1994. Lieutenant colonel Medical Corps, 1940-1946. Fellow American College Preventive Medicine (president 1966-1967), American Academy Occupational Medicine, American Occupational Medical Association (Meritorious Svc. award1965, Health Achievement in Industry award 1983), American Public Health Association, Collegium Ramazzini (county of fellows since 1994).
Member American Medical Association (secretary, vice chairman of the section preventive and industrial medicine public health 1949-1953, chairman of the section 1953), American Industrial Hygiene Association, National Rehabilitation Association Southern California (director), Southern California Indiana Hygiene Association (past president), American College Occupational Medicine (Robert A. Kehoe award 1989), New England Occupational Medical Association (Harriet F. Hardy award 1989), Society Occupational Medicine (honorary).
Married Janet E. Birnbaum, June 27, 1937 (deceased). Children: Gary, Keith, Robin. Married Suzanne E. Colvin, September 2, 1990.