Leroy Downing Long

Background

Long, Leroy Downing was born on March 15, 1897 in Caddo, Indian Territory. Son of LeRoy (Doctor of Medicine and Martha (Downing) L.

Education

Student Oklahoma University, 1915-1917. Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1921. Post graduate work at Vienna and Berlin, 1923.

Career

House officer Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, 1921-1923. Surgeon in LeRoy Long Clinic, Oklahoma City, since 1924. Instructor surgery, University of Oklahoma Medical School, 1924-1929, assistant professor, 1929-1931, associate in surgery, 1936-1943, associate professor surgery, 1943-1949.

Professor clinical surgery, 1949-1970.

Achievements

• Leroy Downing Long has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of Oklahoma City Appeals Review Board. Major Medical Corps, October 1940-March 1942. Member of Founder’s Group American Board of Surgery.

American College of Surgeons fellow (governor).

Member American Oklahoma County and Oklahoma State medical associations, Western Surgical Association (Vice-President, 1954), American Association for Study Goiter, South.W. Surgical Congress (founder. Clubs: University, Oklahoma City Golf and Country, Beacon.

Connections

Married Mary Louise Clymer, September 15, 1927. Children: LeRoy, III, Margaret Annual.

Father:

LeRoy Long

Spouse:

Mary Louise Clymer

child:

III Long

child:

LeRoy Long

child:

Margaret Ann Long