Background
Webster, Jerome Pierce was born on August 2, 1888 in Ashland, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Review Lorin and Jennie Josephine (Adams) Webster.
Webster, Jerome Pierce was born on August 2, 1888 in Ashland, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Review Lorin and Jennie Josephine (Adams) Webster.
Graduate Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1906. Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1910, Master of Science (honorary), 1937, Honorary Doctor of Science, 1968. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1914.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary) U. Bologna, Italy, 1952.
Resident in surgery, 1915-1916, 1920-1921. Special assistant to American ambassador, Berlin, Germany, inspecting prison camps, 1916-1917. Junior fellow Trinity College, 1917-1920 and 1934-1939.
Instructor surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, 1920-1921.
Resident in surgery, Union Medical College, Peking, China, 1921-1922, associate in surgery, 1922-1923, assistant professor, 1923-1925, associate professor, 1925-1926. Practiced in New York City, from 1928.
Fellow in surgery, Presbyterian Hospital, 1928-1931, assistant attending surgical, 1931-1938, associate attending surgeon, 1938-1945, attending surgeon, 1945-1954, consultant, 1954. Associate in surgery college physical and surgical Columbia, 1931-1935, assistant professor surgery, 1935-1938, assistant professor clinical surgery, 1938-1948, professor, 1948-1954, professor emeritus, 1954-1974.
In charge of plastic surgery Vanderbilt Clinic, 1928-1954.
1s5 1st visiting professor plastic surgery, U. Rochester, 1958. Fellow Cesare Barbieri Center of Italian Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, from 1959. Albert Kuntz lecturer Saint Saint Louis University School Medicine, 1958.
Director courses in plastic surgery, 1942-1943.
Trustee Holderness School, Trinity College. Vice president, trustee Watkinson Library.
Inspector plastic surgery facilities Office Surgeon General Army of the United States, 1944-1946. President American Bureau Medical Aid. to China, 1956-1960.
Served as First lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Army, 1917-1919, with British on Lens Sector, French and American Expeditionary Force on Toul, Chateau-Thierry and Saint Mihiel sectors and through Argonne-Meuse drive. Fellow American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Plastic Surgeons (president 1941-1942, award medal 1972), Society Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, American Surgical Association, Medical library association, Harvey Society, New York Academy of Medicine (editorial board.
Member Sociedad Chilena de Cirugia Plastica y Reparadoro.
Clubs: Saint Andrews Golf, Riverdale Yacht, Grolier, Century Association, Charaka.
Married Geraldine Rockefeller McAlpin, July 14, 1934 (deceased). Married second, Emily Brune Randall, March 24, 1951 (deceased.