Background
Maxcy, Kenneth Fuller was born on July 27, 1889 in Saco, Maine, United States. Son of Frederick Edward and Estelle Abbey (Gilpatric) Maxcy.
Maxcy, Kenneth Fuller was born on July 27, 1889 in Saco, Maine, United States. Son of Frederick Edward and Estelle Abbey (Gilpatric) Maxcy.
Bachelor of Arts, George Washington University, 1911. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1915, Diploma in Public Health, 1921.
Resident house officer Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1915-1916, assistant resident pediatrician, 1916-1917. Assistant in medicine Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, 1917. Fellow Johns Hopkins School Hygiene and Public Health, 1919-1921.
Assistant surgeon, passed assistant surgeon and surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1921-1929.
Professor bacteriology and preventive medicine University of Virginia, 1929-1936. Professor public health and preventive medicine University of Minnesota, 1936-1937.
Professor bacteriology School Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins, 1937-1938, professor epidemiology 1938-1954, emeritus, 1954. Consultant international Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation, 1937-1940, 42-45, 48-52.
Consultant secretary war Army Epidemiological Board, 1941-1949.
Member National Advisory Health Council, 1942-1946. Consultant Research and Development Board National Military Establishment since 1946. Member Executive Committee Advisory Board on Health Services, American Red Cross, 1945-1948.
Member Medical Advisory Committee, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis 1940-1948.
Trustee International Polio Congress. Chairman of Commission on research and standards American Public Health Association, 1939-1946.
Member National Advisory Health Council, 1942-1946. Served as Lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Army, 1917, captain, 1918. Fellow American Public Health Association (Sedgwick Memorial medalist 1952).
Member National Academy Sciences, American Society Epidemiologists, Association American Physicians, Pithotomy.
Married Gertrud Helene McClellan, June 22, 1918. Children: Kenneth Fuller, Frederic Reynolds, Selina Gilpatric.