Background
Bakwin, Ruth Morris was born on June 3, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Edward Morris and Helen (Swift) Nelson.
Bakwin, Ruth Morris was born on June 3, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Edward Morris and Helen (Swift) Nelson.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1919; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1923; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1929; postgraduate, graduate schools, Vienna and Berlin, 1924-1925.
Intern, Fifth Avenue Hospital, 1923-1924;
instructor pediatrics, Columbia University, 1927-1930;
instructor pediatrics, New York University, 1930-1940;
assistant professor clinical pediatrics, New York University, 1940-1949;
associate professor clinical pediatrics, New York University, 1949-1960;
professor clinical pediatrics, New York University, from 1961;
assistant pediatrician, Bellevue Hospital, 1927-1943;
assistant visiting physician, Bellevue Hospital, 1943-1948;
associate visiting physician children's medical service, Bellevue Hospital, 1948-1955;
visiting physician, Bellevue Hospital, from 1955;
director child guidance clinic, pediatric department, Bellevue Hospital, 1931-1965. Assistant pediatrician Fifth Avenue Hospital, 1925-1935. Associate pediatrician New York Infirmary, 1954, director emeritus, from 1955, trustee, from 1962, co-director department pediatrics, 1966-1967.
Courtesy staff pediatrics University Hospital.
Member of committee on child health White House Conference, 1960. Member National Committee Children and Youth, 1964-1967. Volunteer pediatrician Care-Medico, Honduras, Indonesia.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pan American Medical Women's Alliance, World Medical Association, American Academy.Pediatrics (state chairman 1965-1967), Medical Women's International Association, American Medical Association, New York Academy of Medicine, Child Study Association American, Society Research Child Development, American Medical Women's Association (Elizabeth Blackwell award 1950), Women's Medical Society New York State, Women's Medical Society New York City, National Association for Mental Health, Inc. (advisory county on childhood mental illnesses, from 1962, dir.1962-1966), Cornell Women's Club of New York, Cosmopolitan Club, WellesleyClub, Alpha Phi (award 1952).
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Married Harry Bakwin, February 2, 1925. Children: Edward Morris, Patricia Anne Bakwin Selch, Barbara Swift Bakwin Rosenthal, Michael.