Background
Mithoefer, John Caldwell was born on February 12, 1920 in Cincinnati. Son of William and Florence (Shanks) Mithoefer.
Mithoefer, John Caldwell was born on February 12, 1920 in Cincinnati. Son of William and Florence (Shanks) Mithoefer.
AB, Brown University, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard, 1944.
Rotating intern, Cincinnati General Hospital, 1944-1945; assistant resident medicine, Cincinnati General Hospital, 1945-1946; fellow cardiac laboratory, Cincinnati General Hospital, 1947-1949; research fellow, MAry Imogene Bassett Hospital, Columbia, 1949-1952; director cardiopulmonary laboratory, MAry Imogene Bassett Hospital, Columbia, 1952-1968; associate physician, MAry Imogene Bassett Hospital, Columbia, 1957-1968; research associate physiology, Faculte de Medecine, Paris, 1954; visiting colleague cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, 1963; assistant clinical professor medecine, Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1963-1968; professor medicine, chief cardiopulmonary division, Dartmouth Medical School, 1968-1972; professor medicine, director pulmonary division, Medical University of Southern California, 1972-1981.
Board directors Otsego County Heart Association, 1959-1961, 65-67, president, 1961. Member research committee New York State Heart Association, 1964-1966, New York State Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Association, 1965-1968. Chairman National Heart and Lung Institute committee National Research and DemonstrationCtrs., 1973-1975.
Member South Carolina Health Care Advisory Board, 1973-1978. With Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1946-1947. Fellow American College Cardiology (governor 1970-1972), American College Chest Physicians (governor 1971-1972, 76-81, vice chairman forum on pathophysiology, 1980-1981, member science program committee 1973).
Member American Society Clinical Investigation, American Physiological Society, American Thoracic Society, Southern Society Clinical Investigation, Association University Cardiologists, American Heart Association (fellow council clinical cardiology, member program committee council cardiology 1968-1969, program committee cardiopulmonary council 1975).
Married Olivia Procter McCullough, June 20, 1942 (divorced). Children: Michael C., C. Keith, Olivia Procter. Married Mary Whitaker Hager, 1972.