Background
Hench, Philip Kahler was born on September 19, 1930 in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. Son of Philip Showalter and Mary Genevieve (Kahler) Hench.
Hench, Philip Kahler was born on September 19, 1930 in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. Son of Philip Showalter and Mary Genevieve (Kahler) Hench.
Bachelor, Lafayette College, 1952; Doctor of Medicine, U. Pittsburgh, 1958; Master of Science in Medicine, University of Minnesota, 1965.
Director emeritus staff & alumni affairs, Scirpps Clinic Medical Group intern, U. Colorado Medical Center, 1958-1959; fellow in medicine and rheumatology, Mayo Graduate School, Rochester, Minnesota, 1959-1963; with, Institute for Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1963-1964; assistant division rheumatology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California, 1965-1966; associate, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California, 1966-1970; associate member, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California, 1970-1974; member, head, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California, 1974-1982; senior consultant, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California, since 1982; adjunct assistant member department neuropharmacology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California member department academic affairs, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California assistant clinical professor, University of California School Medicine, San Diego. Consultant to pharmaceutical companies. Member People to People Mission to China on studyof Aging.
Member of the board advisors San Diego Opera. Member University of California San Diego Police Department Senior Volunteer Program. Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Rheumatology (chairman nonarticular rheumatism study group 1975-1982, commission on preventive and rehabilitation medicine 1984-1985, commission on rheumatologic practice 1975-1977).
Member American Medical Association, National Society Clinical Rheumatologists (president 1997-1999), American Pain Society, California Medical Association, International Association for Study Pain, La Jolla Academy Medicine (president 1994-1996), Arthritis Found (Board of Governors San Diego chapter, Best Doctors in American award 1992-1993, 94-95, 96-97), San Diego History Society, San Diego Museum Fine Arts, San Diego Opera (board advisors).
Married Barbara Joan Kent, July 10, 1954. Children: Philip Gordon, John Kahler, Amanda Kent.