Background
Rovenstine, Emery Andrew was born on July 20, 1895 in Atwood, Indiana, United States. Son of Cassius Andrew and Lulu (Massena) Rovenstine.
Rovenstine, Emery Andrew was born on July 20, 1895 in Atwood, Indiana, United States. Son of Cassius Andrew and Lulu (Massena) Rovenstine.
Bachelor of Arts, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1917, Doctor of Science, 1948. Doctor of Medicine Indiana University, 1928. Student Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, 1930-1934.
Assistant professor of anesthesia, University of Wisconsin, 1934. Assistant Professor surgery, College of Medicine, New York University, 1935-1936, professor of anesthesia since 1937, professor of anesthesia College of Dentistry since 1938. Director of division of anesthesia, Bellevue Hospital since 1935.
Guest director anesthesia.
Oxford (England) University, 1938. Guest professor anesthesia, U. Rosario (Argentina), 1939.
Member medical teaching mission to Czechoslovakia, 1946. Consultant anesthetist—Beth Israel Hospital, Hospital for Special Surgery, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Knickerbocker Hospital, Horace Harding Hospital, Gouverneur Hospital (New York City).
Senior consultant in anesthesia Veterans Hospital (Bronx, New York).
Director of anesthesia, University Hospital, since 1949.
Served as First lieutenant Engineers, A.U.S., 1917-1919. Fel. American Medical Association, New York Academy Medical, New York Academy Science. Member American Board Anesthesiology (president 1948), American Society Anesthetists (past president), American Society Regional Anesthesia (past president), National Research Council (medical science division, 1941-1946), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapy, International Anesthesia Research Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.
Married Jewel Sonya Gould, 1939.