Background
Eloesser, Leo was born on July 29, 1881 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Arthur and Molly (Heyneman) Eloesser.
Eloesser, Leo was born on July 29, 1881 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Arthur and Molly (Heyneman) Eloesser.
Bachelor of Science, University of California, 1900. Doctor of Medicine Heidelberg, 1907. Unmarried. Volunteer assistant surgical clinic, Heidelberg, 1906, assistant Cancer Institute, 1906-1907.
Volunteer assistant Royal Surgical Clinic, Kiel, 1908-1909, Augusta Hospital, Berlin, 1909.
Assistant in surgery, University of California, 1910-1912. Surgeon to Reserve Hospital, Ettlingen, and Reserve hospitals at Karlsrube, 1915-1916.
Major Medical Corps, United States Army, 1918-1919. Clinical professor surgery, Stanford, 1913-1946, emeritus clinical professor after 1946.
Specialist (surgery) in charge medical training, health division China Branch, U.N.R.R.A., 1945-1947.
Surgical United Nations World Health Organisation (China Mission) from 1947. Exchange professor surgical, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1943. Consulting surgeon, United States Veterans Bureau, United States Marine Hospital.
Formerly chief of Stanford surgical service at San Francisco Hospital.
Chief Mobile Surgical Unit, 7B, Surgeon General’ General’ General’ s Office, Spain, 1937-1938.
He spent his undergraduate years at Berkeley and in 1901 went to Germany to study medicine. He became a pioneer in the field of thoracic surgery and joined the faculty of the Stanford Medical School in 1912. Known for his work among the poor and indigent, Doctor Eloesser served as the physician for Tom Mooney, whose trial and imprisonment on charges stemming from a 1916 bombing made him a cause célèbre of the American Left.
In the Spanish Civil War he saw service at Teruel and on the Ebro front with his own Mobile Surgical Hospital.
At the end of World World War II he was in China with the Eighth Route Army under the auspices of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.
Member American Medical Association, American Association Thoracic Surgery (president 1934), American Surgical Association, American College Surgeons. Member subordinate committee Thoracic Surgery, National. Clubs: San Francisco Yacht, Saint Francis Yacht.