Background
Cummings, Richard J. was born on November 18, 1932 in Topeka. Son of John Edward and Mary J. (Harrington) Cummings.
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Richard J. Cummings
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Bachelor, U. Kansas, 1954; Doctor of Medicine, U. Kansas, 1957.
Career
Intern, St. Benedict Hospital, Ogden, Utah., 1957-1958;
resident, U. Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, 1959-1962;
practice medicine specializing in ear, nose, throat, Colorado Springs Medical Clinic, Colorado, 1961-1962;
practice medicine specializing in otology, Wichita (Kansas) Ear Clinic, since 1962. Clinical assistant professor of University Kansas School Medicine. President medical staff St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, 1974-1975.
Member medical staff St. Joseph Hospital, Wichita, president, 1990-1991. Host M.D. Radio program, Wichita, 1978-1979.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, 1981-1983, Kansas Common for Deaf and Hearing Impaired, 1988-1991, Newman U., since 1995. Member Kansas tissue transplantation committee American Red Cross, 1990-1994. Chairman St. Joseph Charity Classic Tournament, 1981.
Physician's group chairman United Way Campaign, 1968, 69, 77, 84. Member U. Kansas Athletic Board, 1991-1995. With United States Public Health Service, 1958-1959.
Fellow American College of Physicians, American College of Surgeons, American Academy Otolaryngology. Member American Medical Association, American Audiol. Society, Kansas Medical Society, Kansas Ear Nose Throat Society (president 1975), Wichita Surgical Society (president 1989), Sedgwick County Medical Society (president 1978), Otosclerosis Study Group, Hearing Conservation Association, Pan American Society Otolaryngology, Wichita Cochlear Implant Program (board directors), Rotary (board directors Wichita chapter 1978-1979), U. Kansas National Alumni Association (board directors 1979-1984, vice chairman 1994-1995, chairman 1995-1996).
Connections
Married Laura Roberta Herring, December 21, 1956. Children: Thomas, Anne, William, John.
