Background
Lord, Jere Williams was born on October 12, 1910 in Baltimore. Son of Jere Williams and Evelyn (Pope) Lord.
Lord, Jere Williams was born on October 12, 1910 in Baltimore. Son of Jere Williams and Evelyn (Pope) Lord.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1933; Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, 1937.
Intern, Surgery New York Hospital, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1937-1938; intern pathology, Surgery New York Hospital, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1938-1939; assistant resident surgeon, Surgery New York Hospital, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1939-1944; resident surgeon, Surgery New York Hospital, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1944; visiting surgeon., 4th Division, Bellevue Hospital consultant surgeon, U. Hospital professor clinical surgery, New York University instructor surgery and surgeon to out-patients, New York Hospital, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1944-1945; member medical board, Doctors Hospital attending surgeon, Manhattan Eastern State Hospital, 1945-1948. Consultant surgeon Greenwich (Connecticut) Hospital, Hackensack Hospital, Paterson General Hospital, Elizabeth Horton Memorial Hospital, Middletown., New York, Norwalk Hospital, Connecticut, Central Suffolk Hospital, Riverhead, New York, Arden Hill Hospital, Goshen, New York, St. Agnes Hospital, White Plains, New York, St. Luke's Hospital, Newburgh, New York, Putnam Community Hospital, Carmel, New York. Chief vascular surgery Columbus Hospital, New York City.
Fellow American College of Surgeons. Member of New York Gastroenterological Association (president 1956), American Association Surgery of Trauma, Society for Vascular Surgery, New York Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (president 1957-1959), New York Society for Thoracic Surgery (president 1961-1962), New York Heart Association (president 1957-1959), New York Surgical Society, Eastern Surgical Society (president 1982), American, Pan-Pacific, Southern surgical associations, International Cardiovascular Society, James IV Association Surgeons (secretary 1967-1975).
Married June Harrah, December 6, 1941. Children: Harrah, Jere W. III, Lonna. Married Margaret Humphreys Graham, February 13, 1971.