Background
Swenson, Orvar was born on February 7, 1909 in Halsingborg, Sweden. Son of Carl Albert and Amanda (Johnson) Swenson.
Swenson, Orvar was born on February 7, 1909 in Halsingborg, Sweden. Son of Carl Albert and Amanda (Johnson) Swenson.
AB, William Jewell College, 1933. Doctor of Science (honorary), William Jewell College, 1993. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1937.
Dr hc, University Aix, Marseilles, France, 1975.
Intern Peter Bent Brigham and Children's hospitals, Boston, 1939-1941. Chief resident in surgery Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1944-1945. Arthur Tracy Cabot fellow Harvard Medical School, 1941-1944.
Surgeon Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1945—1950, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1947-1950. Surgeon-in-chief Boston Floating Hospital Infants and Children, 1950-1960, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1960-1973. Retired, 1973; associate surgery Harvard Medical School, 1947-1950.
Professor pediatric surgery Tufts University Medical School, 1957-1960. Professor surgery Northwestern University Medical School, 1960-1973, University Miami, Florida, 1973-1978. Chairman section surgery American Academy Pediatrics, 1954-1957.
Lecturer Alex Simpson Smith Lecture Institute of Child Health, University London, 1954, Blackfan Lecture Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, 1958. Special guest lecturer 16th General Assembly, Japan Medical Congress, 1963. Felton Bequest visiting professor surgery Universities Sidney and Melbourne, 1959.
Visiting professor University Bombay, 1980. Special guest Pediatrics Surgical Association China, 1999.
Honorary fellow Royal College Surgeons (Dublin, Ireland), Royal College Physicians and Surgeons Canada, British Association Pediatric Surgeons (honorary, Denis Brown medal 1979). Member Australian Computer Society, American Surgical Association, Society University Surgeons, American Pediatric Surgical Association (president 1973).
Married Melva Criley, September 11, 1941. Children: Melva, Elsa, Wenda.
