Background
Rodman, Melvin Herbert was born on May 9, 1922 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Eli Carl and Lulu C. (Simmons) Rodman.
Medical service administrator physician
Rodman, Melvin Herbert was born on May 9, 1922 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Eli Carl and Lulu C. (Simmons) Rodman.
Bachelor, Harvard College, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, Boston University, 1945.
Intern Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston, 1945-1946. Resident Veterans Administration Hospital, W. Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1948-1951, senior staff physician pulmonary disease service, 1953-1956. Practice medicine specializing in internal medicine Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956-1961.
Clinical instructor medicine Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1954-1956. Physician medical department Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1961-1963, assistant medical director, 1963-1967, associate medical director, 1967-1976, medical director, since 1976, professor, head department medical department, since 1976. Associate clinical professor medicine Boston University School Medicine.
Associate physician Mount Auburn Hospital. Clinical associate medicine Boston City Hospital. Member executive committee, trustee Winchester Hospital.
Lecturer medicine Harvard Medical School. Associate visiting physician University Hospital, Boston. Consultant Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, since 1982.
Member advisory council Princeton (New Jersey) University. Member committee of board overseers Harvard College Served with Medical Corps United States Navy, 1942-1948. Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Chest Physicians.
Member Massachusetts Thoracic Society (president 1966-1967), American Lung Association (member executive committee since 1979, director since 1973, vice president 1983-1985), Massachusetts Tuberculosis. and Respiratory Disease League (president 1969-1972), American Thoracic Society, Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association (president 1957-1961).
Married Josephine Ann Castellone, January 22, 1969. Stepdaus., Lauren D., Gail Isabel Gourlay. Children by previous marriage: Linda Ellen, David Joshua.