Career
He served as an officer in the United States. Army Medical Corps of the during World World War World War II He served as a research psychiatrist at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, as Clinical Director and then Acting Superintendent of Butler Health Center in Providence, Rhode Island, as Superintendent at the Cushing Hospital at Framingham, Massachusetts, and finally, starting in 1966, Superintendent of the Doctor Harry C. Solomon Mental Health Center in Lowell, Massachusetts
He taught at the Harvard Medical School and the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He was interested in the history of mental hospital care,and wrote extensively about lieutenant In 1964 he received a Certificate in Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association for his service as Chairman of the Committee on History of Psychiatry.