Background
Whitehorn, John Clare was born on December 6, 1894 in Spencer, Nebraska, United States. Son of Geneo W. and Laura E. (Smith) Whitehorn.
Whitehorn, John Clare was born on December 6, 1894 in Spencer, Nebraska, United States. Son of Geneo W. and Laura E. (Smith) Whitehorn.
AB, Doane College, 1916. Doctor of Humane Letters, Doane College, 1947. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard, 1921.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Nebraska, 1955.
Assistant physiological chemical, McLean Hospital, Waverley, Massachusetts, 1921-1923;
physiological chemist, McLean Hospital, 1923-1938;
director laboratories, McLean Hospital, 1930-1938;
research fellow psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1935;
also psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1936-1938;
special instructor in social psychiatry, Simmons College, Boston, 1936-1938;
instructor psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School, 1936-1938;
professor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1938-1941;
psychiatrist-in-chief, Barnes Hospital and associate hospitals, St. Louis, 1938-1941;
head psychiatric services, Washington University, Malcolm A. Bliss Psychiatric Institute of St. Louis City Hospital, 1939-1941;
Henry Phipps professor psychiatry, director department psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, 1941-1960;
professor, psychiatrist-in-chief emeritus, Johns Hopkins University, from 1960;
psychiatrist-in-chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1941-1960. Consultant V.A. Hospital, Perry Point, Maryland. Honorary associate physician Guy's Hospital, London, from 1948.
Jacob Gimbel lecturer on sex psychology Stanford University, 1949. Samuel W. Hamilton lecturer, 1953. Karen Horney Memorial lecturer, 1954, Salmon lecturer New York Academy of Medicine, 1955.
Member National Research Council division medical science, 1932-1938, 38-40, 43-46, 53-57, Executive Committee, 1953-1957.
President American Board Psychiatry and Neurology, 1946, 48, 49, director, 1943-1949. Chairman Maryland State Mental Health advisory board, 1950-1960. Member executive committee Medical Care Committee State of Maryland, from 1953.
Member National Advisory Mental Health Council, United States Public Health Service, 1954-1958, 59-63. Vice chairman Maryland Board Health and Mental Hygiene, from 1961. Fellow American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Gutheil medal 1961), American College Psychiatrists (president 1965-1966), American Psychiatric Association (president elect 1949-1950, president 1950-1951, member council from 1951).
Member National Association Mental Health (past director), New York Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society, Central Neuropsychiatric Association, Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Society (honorary), Association Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (vice president 1951, 53), History Science Society, Boylston Medical Society, Alpha Omega, Phi Rho Sigma, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.
Married Jeannette Miller, June 22. 1921; children: Richard Miller, Alfred Jean (killed in action, Germany November 1944), Joanne.