Background
Sutter, Richard Anthony was born on July 20, 1909 in St. Louis. Son of John Henry and Molly Louisa (Schuchman) Sutter.
Sutter, Richard Anthony was born on July 20, 1909 in St. Louis. Son of John Henry and Molly Louisa (Schuchman) Sutter.
AB, Washington University, St. Louis, 1931. Doctor of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, 1935.
Intern St. Louis City Hospital, 1935-1936. Assistant to Otto Sutter, Doctor of Medicine 1937. Founder, medical director Sutter Clinic, St. Louis, 1947-1984.
Member faculty Washington University School Medicine. Appointed physician member national advisory committee on occupational safety and health Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 1971-1975. Medical director St. Louis International Airport, 1964-1984, emeritus medical director, since 1988.
Member Missouri Governor's Council on Occupational Health and Safety, Gov's Advisory Committee on Worker's Compensation, Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation. Consultant Barnes/Sutter Health Care, since 1984. Honorary consultant St. Mary's Hospital East St. Louis, Illinois, since 1991.
Member emeritus staff Barnes.
Board directors Downtown St. Louis, Inc. (honorary chairman membership committee, Leadership award 1994). Past director Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Member St. Louis Mercantile Library. Association, Jefferson National Expansion Commission, Commission on Future of Washington University, St. Louis, member aviation committee Regional Commerce and Growth Association Served to lieutenant colonel Medical corpus, United States army, 1941-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow American Public Health Association, American College Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Health Achievement in Industry award 1978), American College Preventive Medicine, American Industrial Hygiene Association (emeritus, member International committee occupational health).
Member American Medical Association (council on occupational health, council on aviation and space medicine), Missouri Medical Association (delegate), St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society (honorary, president 1947, Doctor Robert Schlueter award for Leadership 1994), American Association Railway Surgeons (past president), Center States Society Indiana Medicine and Surgery (past president), University Club, Old Warson Country Club, Washington University Faculty Club, Eliot Society (founder, life), Yachting Club American (founder), Bradenton Country Club.
Married Elizabeth Henby, June 15, 1935. Children– John Richard, Jane Elizabeth. Judith Sutter Hinrichs.