Background
Morton, John Jamieson was born on May 19, 1886 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Jamieson and Nellie Augusta (Taylor) Morton.
Morton, John Jamieson was born on May 19, 1886 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Jamieson and Nellie Augusta (Taylor) Morton.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1907. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1913. Doctor of Science, Amherst, 1947.
1 son, John Henderson. Interne, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1913-1914. Fellow in pathological, Rockefeller Institute, New York, 1914-1915.
Resident surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1915-1916.
Assistant resident physician, Rockefeller Institute Hospital, 1916. Practiced orthopedic surgery, Boston, 1919-1921.
Assistant attending surgeon in orthopedic surgery, Children’s Hospital, 1919-1921. Assistant professor surgery, Yale School of Medicine, 1921-1924.
Professor surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, since 1924.
Member growth committee, National Research Council, 1945. Member National Advisory Cancer Council, United States.P.H.S., since 1948. Served as First lieutenant, captain and major Medical Corps, A.U.S., Base Hospital Northern 5, in France, May 1917-March 1919.
Felow American College Surgeons (member bone sarcoma committee, 1925-1940.
Member of the American Medical Association (member scientific committee since 1928), Medical Society State of New York (Chairman of Commission on medical research), Monroe County Medical Society, American Surgical Association, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Johns Hopkins Surgical Society, American Society for Experimental Pathology, Robert Jones Orthopedic Society, The Society Clinical Surgery (treasurer 1933-1935. Member of the board scientific advisers Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Cancer Research, Yale, since 1939, Science Advisory Committee, Memorial Hospital, New York, Board of Visitors State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases, Buffalo.
Member Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. Clubs: Rochester Country, Pithotomy (Baltimore).
Married Nancy Barnard, October 7, 1919.