Background
Elkinton, Joseph Russell was born on October 12, 1910 in Moylan, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Passmore and Mary Russell (Bucknell) Elkinton.
Elkinton, Joseph Russell was born on October 12, 1910 in Moylan, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph Passmore and Mary Russell (Bucknell) Elkinton.
AB, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1932; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1937.
Intern and resident, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1937-1940; national research county fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1940-1942; from instructor to assistant professor medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1942-1948; from assistant professor to associate professor medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1948-1962; professor medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1962-1972; professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1972; staff physician, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1948-1972; retired, 1972.
Member study section metabolism and nutrition National Institutes of Health, Washington, 1954-1958. Board directors Elwyn (Pennsylvania) Institute, 1956-1968. Member family planning committee American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, 1965-1971.
Master American College of Physicians, fellow Royal College Physicians London. Member American Society Clinical Investigation, American Physiological Society (council biology editors 1966), Associate American Physicians.
Married Mary Teresa Sturge, December 14, 1940. Children: Gwyneth Elkinton Loud, Joseph Sturge.