Leon Jefferson Whitsell

Background

Whitsell, Leon Jefferson was born on September 6, 1914 in Fernley, Nevada, United States. Son of Leon Otto and Betty Loren (McKaig) Whitsell.

Education

AB, Stanford University, 1935. Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University, 1939.

Career

Fellow, psychiatry Stanford School Medicine, California, 1946—1947. Consultant psychiatrist United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, 1947—1963. Private practice, medicine specializing psychiatry and neurology San Francisco, from 1947.

Assistant clinical professor medicine Stanford University, San Francisco, Palo Alto, 1947—1962. Attending physician, consultant neurology Virginia Hospital, Martinez, Oakland, California, 1947—1970. Examiner, medical commission Superior Court, San Francisco, 1952—1954.

Assistant professor to associate clinical professor University California, San Francisco, 1962—1984. Served to lieutenant commander (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946, with active duty medical corporations.

Achievements

• Leon Jefferson Whitsell has been listed as a noteworthy psychiatrist, neurologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member science advisory board Orton Dyslexia Society, from 1976. Fellow: American Academy Neurology, American Psychiatric Association (life). Member: California Medical Association (chairman nervous and mental disease committee 1962), San Francisco Medical Society, San Francisco Neurological Society (president), San Francisco Club, Santa Cruz Club, San Francisco Hofskapelle Lodge, Masons Lodge.

Connections

Married Alice Jane Lawrence, December 22, 1938. Children: Leon Lawrence, George Edward, James Lawrence.

Father:

Leon Otto Whitsell

Mother:

Betty Loren (McKaig) Whitsell

Spouse:

Alice Jane Lawrence

child:

George Edward Whitsell

child:

James Lawrence Whitsell

child:

Leon Lawrence Whitsell