Background
Boucot, Katharine Rosenbaum was born on September 6, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Morris and Hannah (Rottenberg) Rosenbaum.
educator preventive medicine physician
Boucot, Katharine Rosenbaum was born on September 6, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Morris and Hannah (Rottenberg) Rosenbaum.
Student, University Pennsylvania, 2022—2023. Student, Pennsylvania State University, 1934—1936. Doctor of Medicine, Woman's Medical College Pennsylvania, 1942.
Master in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 1954. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Keuka College, 1960. Doctor of Science (honorary), Beaver College, 1967.
D.M.Sc. (honorary), Woman's Medical College, 1968. D.M.Sc., Hahnemann Medical College, 1978. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Thomas Jefferson University, 1978.
D.Pedagogy (honorary), Temple University, 1986.
International Woman's College Hospital, Philadelphia, 1942—1943. Resident Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit, 1944, chest specialist, since 1945. Consultant Woman's College Hospital, National Cancer Institute, Philadelphia General, Vets, Landis State hospitals.
Professor, chairman department preventive medicine, 1952—1968. Clinical professor medicine Woman's Medical College, 1952—1968. Emeritus professor preventive medicine, since 1968.
Associate in medicine University Pennsylvania Graduate School Medicine, 1951—1963.
Vice president William B. Lake Foundation, 1959—1977. Board directors, honorary life member Philadelphia division American Cancer Society. President Philadelphia- Montgomery Lung Association, 1963—1965.
Honorary trustee Beaver College. Member of American College of Physicians, Alpha Omega Alpha., Woman's Medical College Alumnae Association, American Epidemiological Society, Laennec Society (past president), Pennsylvania Public Health Association (executive committee 1963), Academy Occupational Medicine, Pennsylvania Trudeau Society (president 1958), American Thoracic Society (vice president 1960-1961, honorary member, past president Eastern section), Philadelphia College Physicians (vice president 1970-1972, president 1972-1974), American College Preventive Medicine 1969-1970, (Katharine Boucot Sturgis annual lecturer since 1979), American Public Health Association, American Medical Women's Association (honorary), Merion Cricket., Cosmopolitan.
Married Joseph R. Boucot, March 3, 1944 (deceased May 5, 1962). Children: Arthur J., Nancy. Married Samuel Booth Sturgis, November 18, 1964.