Background
Dripps, Robert Dunning was born on June 19, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Dunning and Madge (Heron) Dripps.
Dripps, Robert Dunning was born on June 19, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Dunning and Madge (Heron) Dripps.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1932. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1936.
Intern University of Pennsylvania Hospital, 1938. Instructor pharmacology University of Pennsylvania School, Medicine, 1938-1940, associate, 1942-1945, associate professor surgery (anesthesia), 1943-1949, professor, department chairman anesthesia, 1949-1972. Director anesthesia Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, 1943-1972.
Vice president for health affairs University of Pennsylvania, 1971-1973.
Commonwealth Fund fellow in anesthesiology University of Wisconsin, 1941. Member medical teaching mission to Greece and Italy, 1948.
Civilian consultant Army Medical Service Graduate School, 1949. Member surgery study section United States Public Health Service, 1951-1956, member of national advisory resources committee, 1963-1967.
Senior instructor international course anesthesiology World Health Organization, Denmark, 1952.
Senior civilian consultant anesthesia Surgeon General of Army, 1953-1973. Chairman of Commission anesthesia National Research Council, 1954-1962. Civilian consultant anesthesia United States Naval Hospital, Philadelphia.
Member subcommittee trauma Office Surgeon General, United States Army.
Member medical board Project Health Opportunities for People Everywhere, 1968-1973. Chairman of Commission on anesthesia National Institutes of Health, 1967-1973, pharmacology research training grant committee United States Public Health Service.
Director Narco Science Industries, Incorporated. Trustee Agnes Irwin School, 1961-1964, Princeton University, 1967-1971.
President University of Pennsylvania Senate, 1965.
Member medical teaching mission to Greece and Italy, 1948. Member surgery study section United States Public Health Service, 1951-1956. Member subcommittee trauma Office Surgeon General, United States Army.
Member medical board Project Health Opportunities for People Everywhere, 1968-1973.
Fellow Royal College Physicians (London), Royal College Physicians (Ireland). Member American Society Clinical Investigation, American College Anesthesiologists, American Society Anesthesiologists (Distinguished Service award 1965), American Physiological Society, Pharmacology, American Medical Association, American Surgical Association, Association American Physicians, Pennsylvania Society Anesthesiology (president 1950), Association U. Anesthetists (founders group president 1957), Halsted Society (president 1957), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma XI, Alpha Omege Alpha.
Clubs: Philadelphia. Member revision committee United States Pharmacopela, 1950-1956.
Member editorial board Digest of Treatment, 1946-1962, Journal Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1953-1957, Journal Surgical.
Married Diana Rogers, February 11, 1939. Children: Robert Dunning III, Susan Adair.