Background
Lidge, Ralph Theodore was born on March 19, 1921 in Tacoma Park, Maryland, United States. Son of Ernest F. and Renee (Engel) Lidge.
Lidge, Ralph Theodore was born on March 19, 1921 in Tacoma Park, Maryland, United States. Son of Ernest F. and Renee (Engel) Lidge.
Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, Northwestern University. Bachelor of Medicine, Northwestern University, 1945.
Resident Illinois Research & Educational Hospitals, Chicago, 1945—1946, resident orthopaedics, 1948—1951, practice medicine specializing orthopaedic surgery Chicago, since 1951. Attending staff Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, since 1959. Clinical associate professor orthopaedic surgery Abraham Lincoln School Medicine, University Illinois Medical Center, Chicago.
Member of American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation (national chairman fund raising & development committee 1973-1977), Mid-American Orthopaedic Association (charter member), Lamplighters Orthopaedic Society, Institute Medicine Chicago, International Society Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology, International Society Orthopaedic Research & Traumatology (founding member), International Society Knee, International Arthroscopy Association (founding member, director), Illinois Orthopaedic Society (founding member), Illinois Medical Society, Clinical Orthopaedic Society, Chicago Medical Society, Chicago Orthopaedic Society, American Trauma Society, American Rheumatism Association, American Orthopaedic Society Sports Medicine, American Orthopaedic Association, American Geriatrics Society, American Academy Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Married Jacquelyn Ann Johnson Lidge, June 1, 1946. Children: Ralph Theodore, Patricia Ann, Christpher Dale.