Background
Mitchell,, Robert Edgar was born on October 20, 1919. Son of Robert Edgar and Julia Gardner (Carlton) Mitchell.
Mitchell,, Robert Edgar was born on October 20, 1919. Son of Robert Edgar and Julia Gardner (Carlton) Mitchell.
AB, Hampden-Sydney College, 1940. Doctor of Medicine, U.Va., 1950.
Instructor in medicine Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, 1953-1954. Resident gastroenterology service of Doctor Bockus University Pennsylvania Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, 1954-1955. Chief gastroenterology section McGuire VA Hsop., Richmond, Virginia, 1955-1956.
Clinical professor medicine Medical College Virginia Commonwealth University, from 1956. Past president, chairman board Richmond Academy Medicine, 1976-1979. chief of staff Henrico Doctors' Hospital, Richmond, 1982. Chief of medicine Henrico Doctors' Hospital, Richmond Memorial Hospital, Sheltering Arms Hospital.
Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Captain Reserve retired. Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Gastroenterology.
Member Medical Society Virginia (chairman ethics committee 1990-1991, associate editor quarterly medical journal), Bockus Alumni International Society Gastroenterology, New York Academy of Sciences, American Federation for Clinical Research, Sigma Xi.
Married Mary Elizabeth Hiester, June 26, 1954. Children: Robert Edgar III, Clark Carlton, Richard Gardner.