Background
Fitzpatrick, Thomas Bernard was born on December 19, 1919 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joseph J. and Grace (Lawrence) Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick, Thomas Bernard was born on December 19, 1919 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joseph J. and Grace (Lawrence) Fitzpatrick.
Bachelor with honors, University of Wisconsin, 1941; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1945; fellow, Mayo Foundation, 1948-1951; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1952; fellow, Commonwealth Fund, Oxford, 1958-1959; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1987; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Rochester Medical School, 1996.
Intern, 4th (Harvard) Medical Service, Boston City Hospital, 1945-1946;
biochemist, Army Medical Center, Maryland., 1946-1948;
assistant professor dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1951-1952;
professor, head division dermatology, U. Oregon Medical School, 1952-1958;
Edward Wigglesworth professor dermatology, Harvard Medical School, 1959-1987;
professor emeritus, Harvard Medical School, since 1987;
head department, Harvard Medical School, 1959-1987;
chief dermatology service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1959-1987. Prosser White orator St. John's Dermatological Society, London, 1964. Dohi international exchange lecturer dermatology, Japan, 1969.
Special consultant United States Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health;consultant in dermatology Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, since 1962. Member science advisory board Environmental Protection Agency, 1985. Member climatic impact committee, chairman health effects NAS.
President Dermatology Foundation, 1971, International Pigment Cell Society, 1978-1981, Association professors Dermatology, 1983.
(Book by Sober, Arthur J., Fitzpatrick, Thomas B.)
Fellow American Academy Dermatology (honorary, master, past board directors). Member NAS(member institute medicine 1994), Royal Society Medicine (honorary), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Association American Physicians, Society Investigative Dermatology (honorary, president 1959-1960, Stephen Rothman award, gold medal 1970, Discoveryaward Dermatology Foundation 1997), American Society for Clinical Investigation (emeritus 1965), British Association Dermatology (honorary), South African Dermatol.Soc. (honorary), Medical Association Israel Dermatological Society (honorary), St. John's Hospital Dermatological Society (London, honorary), Argentina, Danish, Italian, Finnish, German, Polish, Austrian dermatological societies (honorary), Pacific Dermatologic Association (honorary), French Society Dermatology and Syphiligraphy (foreign correspondent), Australasian College Dermatologists, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Beatrice Devaney, December 27, 1944. Children: Thomas B., Beatrice, John, L. Scott, Brian.