Background
Stewart, Marcus Jefferson was born on July 13, 1911 in Whiteville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Marcus Jefferson and Mattie Sue (Crowder) Stewart.
educator consultant orthopedic surgeon
Stewart, Marcus Jefferson was born on July 13, 1911 in Whiteville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Marcus Jefferson and Mattie Sue (Crowder) Stewart.
Bachelor cum laude, Milligan College, 1933. Doctor of Medicine, University Tennessee, Memphis, 1938. Master of Science in Orthopaedic Surgery, University Tennessee, Memphis, 1945.
Intern City of Memphis Hospital, 1939-1939. Resident in orthopedic surgery Campbell Clinic, Memphis, 1939-1941. Postgraduate course in fractures University London, 1942.
Course in prosthetics University of California at Los Angeles, 1954. Clinical assistant department orthopedics University Tennessee Center Health Sciences, Memphis, 1947-1949, clinical instructor, 1949-1951, clinical associate professor, 1958-1971, professor, from 1971, trustee, 1975-1981. Chief orthopedic section Veterans Administration Medical Center, Memphis, 1981-1992.
Member Council on Sports Medicine, United States Olympic Committee, 1978-1984. Member staff Campbell Clinic, Crippled Children's Hospital, Memphis, 1947-1981. Member staff Baptist Memorial Hospital, since 1947, chief staff, 1963.
Member staff City of Memphis Hospital, since 1947, board directors, 1971-1978. Member staff Methodist Hospital. Consultant to surgeon general United States Army, since 1947.
Active staff consultant LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, Crittenden Memorial Hospital, West Memphis, Arkansas. Chairman Committee Sports Medicine for Disabled Athletes, since 1981. Member President's Committee for Employment Physically Handicapped, 1959-1972.
Chairman Governor's Committee for Employment Physically Handicapped, 1959, 60. Member advisory board American Physical Therpay Association. Panel member, speaker, lecturer to professional conferences.
Visiting professor, invited ledtr. professional organizations and hospitals.
Vestryman St. John's Episcopal Church, 1966-1968m 81-83, senior warden, 1968. Board directors Les Passees Rehabilitation Center, chairman, 1964-1965. Trustee University Tennessee, 1970-1981, Memphis and Shelby County hospitals, 1970-1978, Hutchison School for Girls, 1967-1970.
Chairman medical committee Memphis Sesquicentennial, 1969. Member University Tennessee President's Club, since 1970, Milligan College President's Club, since 1972. With Medical corpus, United States army, 1941-1946.
Colonel United States Army Reserve, 1947-1971. Fellow American College of Surgeons (governor 1962-1964). Member American Orthopedic Association, American Association for Surgery Trauma, American Academy Orthopedic Surgeons (joint committee military affairs 1948-1970, member, chairman committees), American Medical Association, American Orthopedic Foot Society (founding), American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (founding president 1977-1978), Contemporary Orthopedic Society (president 1959), International Society Orthopedics and Traumatology, American Trauma Society (founding), Mid-American Orthopedic Association (founding), Southern Medical Society, Robert Jones Orthopedic Society (president 1960), Tennessee Medical Society, Tennessee Orthopedic Society (president 1955), Clinical Orthopedic Society (president 1958), Memphis Orthopedic Society (founding president 1976), British Orthopedic Association (guest), Louisiana Orthopedic Association (honorary), South Carolina Orthopedic Association (honorary), Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society, Society Medical Consultant to Armed Forces, University Tennessee Medical Alunbi Association (founder, past president), Willis C. Campbell Orthopedic Club (founder, president 111955, board directors, foundation president 1965-1980), Rotary (vice president Memphis 1981-1982, president 1983-1984), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Mariette Solvay McDonald, November 3, 1944 (deceased 1994). Children: Mariette E. Stewart Rhodes, Jeanne M. Stewart Jemison, Lee Jurion Stewart Bowen. Married Fay Wade, June 27, 1996.