Background
McGovern, John Phillip was born on June 2, 1921 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Francis and Lottie (Brown) McGovern.
McGovern, John Phillip was born on June 2, 1921 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Francis and Lottie (Brown) McGovern.
Bachelor of Science, Duke University, 1945. Doctor of Medicine, 1945. Postgraduate, London and Paris, 1949.
Degree (honorary), Ricker College. Degree (honorary), Union College. Degree (honorary), Kent State University.
Degree (honorary), University Nebraska. Degree (honorary), Illinois College Podiatric Medicine. Degree (honorary), Lincoln College.
Degree (honorary), Emerson College.
Intern in peidats Yale-New Haven (Connecticut) General Hospital, 1945-1946. Resident peidats. Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, 1948. Resident Guy Hospital, London, 1949.
Chief resident Children's Hospital, Houston, 1949-1950. Chief out-patient department, 1950-1951. John and Mary R. Markle scholar medical science George Washington University School Medicine, 1950-1954.
Assistant professor pediatrics, 1950-1954. Chief George Washington University pediatrics division District of Columbia General Hospital, 1951-1954. Associate professor pediatrics Tulane University, New Orleans, 1954-1956.
Private practice medicine specializing in allergy/immunology Houston, 1956-1958. Chief allergy service Texas Children's Hospital, 1957-1974. Founder McGovern Allergy Clinic, 1956.
Clinical professor pediatrics (allergy). Professor, chairman department history of medicine University Texas Graduate School biomedical Science, 1970-1981. Professor history & philosophy of biological science, 1981—2007.
Visiting physician Charity Hospital, New Orleans. Adjunct professor department microbiology Baylor College Medicine, Houston, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, since 1976, department environmental science school Public Health University Texas, 1978-2007. Fellow Green college Oxford (England) University.
Distinguished adjunct professor health and safety education Kent (Ohio) State University, 1972-2007.
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President, board directors John. P. McGovern Foundation, 1986-2007. Board directors allergy Foundation American, 1962-1974, McGovern Fund for Behavioral science, 1988-2007.
Board regents national Liber. Medicine, 1970-1974, consultant, 1975-2007. Member National Advisory Council on alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1987-2007.
Captain Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1946-1948. Fellow American College Allergy and Immunology (president 1968-1969), American Academy alelrgy and Immunology, American Academy Pediatricians, American College Chest Physicians (Texas chapter president 1966-1967), American Association Study Headache (president 1963-1964). Member American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, American Association Immologists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Medical Writers Association, Association for Research.in Nervous and Metal Diseases, American Assn.Hist.
Medicine, Southern Medical Association (life), Texas Pediatrics Society, Association convalescent Homes and Hospitals for Asthmatic Children (president Texas chapter 1969-1970), Duke University Medical Alumni Association (president 1968-1969), American Association Certified Allergists (president 1972-1973), American Osler Society (president 1973-1974), american Sch.health Association, Society Alergia y Ciencias Afines (Mexico, honorary), Society Mexicana Alergia e Inmunologia (honorary), Westchester Allergy Society (honorary), Candadian allergy Society (honorary), Asociacion Argentina Alergia e Inmunologia (honorary), Royal College Physicians (London, honorary), Cosmos, Army-Navy Country (Washington), Osler (London), Vintage (California), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi (member committee on membership-at-large, editor newsletter 1970-1971, director 1872-1873), Sigma Pi Sigma, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Married Kathrine Dunbar Galbreath, 1961.