John Penrose Riesman

Background

Riesman, John Penrose was born on June 5, 1912 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David and Eleanor (Fleisher) Riesman.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1934. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1938. Postgraduate Yale, 1947-1948.

Career

Annual Intern Philadelphia General Hospital, 1938-1940, staff resident, 1938-1943. Practice medicine specializing in surgery, New Haven, 1948-1972. Attending surgeon Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Physician-in-charge dispensary United States Steel Corporation, New Haven, 1968.

Consultant surgery Griffin Hospital, Derby, Connecticut Veterans Home and Hospital, Rocky Hill. Clinical instructor surgery Yale Medical School, 1950-1972.

Trustee Associates of Yale Medical Library.

Achievements

• John Penrose Riesman has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to lieutenant commander, Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member New Haven County Medical Association (board censors 1969-1972), New Haven Colony, Branford history societies. Clubs: Beaumont Medical (secretary-treasurer 1960-1968, vice president 1968-1970), Branford Yacht, New Haven Yacht, Graduates, Yale Faculty (New Haven).

Connections

Married Margaret Haynes Cope, August 5, 1942.

Father:

David Riesman

Mother:

Eleanor (Fleisher) Riesman

Spouse:

Margaret Haynes Cope