Background
Pratt, Loring Withee was born on May 26, 1918 in Farmington, Maine, United States. Son of Lyde Stuart and Ethel Louise (Withee) Pratt.
Pratt, Loring Withee was born on May 26, 1918 in Farmington, Maine, United States. Son of Lyde Stuart and Ethel Louise (Withee) Pratt.
AB, Middlebury (Vermont) College, 1940. Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1943.
President Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1943-1946. Private practice Mid Maine Medical Center, Waterville, Maine, 1948-1984. Senior consultant Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1988.
Director F.T. Hill Seminar in Otolaryngology Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1970-1997. Retired, 1997
Visiting professor department otolaryngology Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, 1986-1987, Hershey (Pennsylvania) Medical Center, 1978, Cleveland Clinic, 1988, University Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, 1981, University Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts 1981. Distinguished visiting professor department otolaryngology University Texas Medical Branch, 1986.
Instructor otology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1945-1946. Instructor F.T. Hill Seminar in otolaryngology Colby College, Waterville, 1960-1965, assistant director, 1967-1969, co-director, 1969-1970. Storer Boone Memorial lecturer Gould Memorial Hospital, Presque Isle, 1989).
Member State of Maine subcommittee for Deaf and Hearing Impaired, since 1973. Member Maine State Board of Licensure for Speech Pathology and Audiology, 1977-1980. Risk prevention committee Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine, 1981-1983.
Regional medical consultant otolaryngology State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services, since 1985. Chairman task force to update Pioneering Specialists, 1995-1996.
Chairman School Building Committee, Fairfield, Maine. President Parent-Teachers Association, Fairfield. Captain United States Air Force, 1946-1948.
Fellow American College of Surgeons (board governors 1971-1974, board regents 1974-1983), The Centurions of the Deafness Research Foundation (president-elect 1981-1982, president 1982-1983, board directors 1982-1983), American Society of Head and Neck Surgeons (treasurer 1969-1975, president-elect 1978-1979, president 1979-1980, member council 1969-1983, Chiron award 1980, Board Governors Practitioners' Excellence award 1995), American Laryngological Association (treasurer 1981-1985, president-elect 1985-1986, president 1986-1987, board directors 1981-1989), American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society Inc. (vice president eastern section 1976, board directors 1976), American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (member ethics committee 1976-1980), American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (board directors 1979), American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (president-elect 1981, president 1981-1982, board directors 1980-1983), American Broncho-Esophagological Association (secretary 1974-1979, president-elect 1979-1980, president 1980-1981, board directors 1974-1983). Member American Medical Association, American Council of Otolaryngology (vice president 1980, president-elect 1981, president 1982, board directors 1975-1981), American Rhinologic Society, American Society for the Study of Headache, Kennebec County Medical Association (vice president 1960, president 1961, delegate to Maine medical association 1963, council 1959-1962), Maine Cancer Society (board directors 1974-1975), Maine Medical Association (President award 1986), Maine Thracic Society, New England Otolaryngological Society (vice president 1968, president 1969, executive committee 1966-1969), Pan American Medical Association, International Society for the History of Medicine (president 1989-1990), Phi Beta Pi.
Married Jeanette Irene Burque, February 3, 1945. Children: George L., Robert S., Anne L., Jeanette S., Patricia J., Harold S., John B., Kathleen W., Ethel W.