Background
Smith, Margaret Hamilton Donald was born on January 26, 1915 in New York City. Daughter of Donald P. and Margaret D. (Warner) Smith.
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Margaret Hamilton Donald Smith
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B. es lettres, Gymnase de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1933. Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1939.
Career
Intern, Baltimore City Hospital, 1939-1940;
Intern, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1940-1941;
resident in pediatrics, U. Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1941-1942;
National Research Council fellow in animal pathology, Rockefeller Institute Princeton, New Jersey, 1946-1948;
faculty, Johns Hopkins University, 1943-1946;
medical director, Sydenham Hospital, Baltimore, 1942-1945;
faculty pediatrics, microbiology, epidemiology, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1948-1973;
professor pediatrics, Tulane University, 1961-1973, 80;
professor emeritus, Tulane University, since 1980;
director, Children's Hospital of Newark, 1975-1977. Faculty New York University, 1955-1959, College Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 1974-1977. Staff Ochsner Clinic, 1977-1980.
Member microbiology and infectious disease advising committee National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1975-1980. Member of advisory commission on elimination of Tuberculosis. Centers for Disease Control, 1987-1990;board Scientific Counselors, National Institutes of Health Division Biological Studies, 1969-1972.
Pediatrician, Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Haiti, 1958, 80, 85. Visiting professor U. Geneva, Switzerland, 1971.
Achievements
Membership
Member Society for Pediatric Research (vice president 1958), American Pediatric Society (president 1976), American Academy Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Thoracic Society, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
Married Morris F. Shaffer, December 28, 1959. 1 child, Charlotte A. 1 stepchild, Alexander F.
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Nationality
American -
Religion
Unitarian Universalist -
Political Party
Democrat
Awards
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Recipient Mead Johnson award American Academy Pediatrics, 1953, Jacobi award Academy and American Medical Association, 1979, Distinguished Physician award Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, 1989.Recipient Mead Johnson award American Academy Pediatrics, 1953, Jacobi award Academy and American Medical Association, 1979, Distinguished Physician award Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, 1989.