Background
Waggoner, Raymond Walter was born on August 2, 1901 in Carson City, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles W. and Anna J. (Herrick) Waggoner.
Waggoner, Raymond Walter was born on August 2, 1901 in Carson City, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles W. and Anna J. (Herrick) Waggoner.
Student, Highland Park (Michigan) Junior College, 1918-1919; student, University Michigan, 1919-1920; Doctor of Medicine University of Michigan, 1924; Doctor of Science, University Pennsylvania Graduate School Medicine, 1930.
Intern, Harper Hospital, Detroit, 1924-1925;
resident, Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital, and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, 1925-1926;
laboratory intern, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1926;
associate with graduate course, Pennsylvania Hospital for Nervous and Mental Diseases, 1927-1928;
Commonwealth Fund fellow, 1926-1929;
with, University of Michigan, since 1929;
assistant professor of neurology and assistant neurologist, University of Michigan (University Hospital), 1929-1932;
associate professor and neurologist, University of Michigan (University Hospital), 1932-1936;
professor psychiatry, University of Michigan (University Hospital), since 1937;
director, University of Michigan (Neuropsychiat. Institute), 1937-1970;
department chairman psychiatry, University of Michigan (Neuropsychiat. Institute), 1937-1970;
professor emeritus, University of Michigan (Neuropsychiat.
Institute), since 1970;
private practice psychiatry, since 1970;
consultant, Reproductive Biology Research Foundation (name now Masters and Johnson Institute), St. Louis, since 1970;
distinguished visiting professor psychiatry, U. Louisville Medical School, 1974-1986;
distinguished visiting professor emeritus, U. Louisville Medical School, since 1986. Co-founder Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, 1955. Chairman liaison committee American Psychiatric Association and American Hospital Association, 1957-1967.
United States committee World Federation for Mental Health, 1959. Consultant surgical general United States Army, 1948-1958. Advisory to director Selective Service System, 1943-1948.
Member of commission Michigan Department Mental Health, 1945-1949, senior clinical consultant, 1974-1981. Board of directors Masters and Johnson Institute, since 1970, Behavioral Science Foundation, since 1978.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychiatric Association (member council 1943-1947, 1954-1957, president 1969-1970, Distinguished Service award 1988, special presidential commendation 1991), Australia and New Zealand College Psychiatrists (honorary). Member American Neurological Association, Society for Biological Psychiatry, Central Neuropsychiat. Association (president 1951-1952), Southern Psychiatric Society (honorary), West Indies Psychological Association (honorary), Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, Association Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, American Medical Association, American Psychopath.
Association (councillor 1946), Academy Psychoanalysis, Michigan Society for Pastoral Care (director 1945, vice president 1947-1949), Washtenaw County Medical Society (member council since 1987), Michigan Medical Society (mental hygiene committee), World Medical Association, Michigan Society Neurology and Psychiatry (president 1941-1942), Michigan Academy of Sciences, Mental Health Society Michigan (honorary director, Volunteer Friendship award 1988), American College Psychiatrists (president 1966-1967, E.B. Bowis award 1968), American Association Chairmen Departments Psychiatry (1st president), New York Academy of Sciences. Honorary member Southern Psychiatric Society, Sociedad Colombiana de PsiquiatrÃa (honorary). Clubs: Cosmos.
Married Marion Donnelly, April 12, 1930. Children: Raymond Walter, Karen.