Background
Kennedy, Robert Hayward was born on December 16, 1887 in Southboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel A. and Ilda M. (Hayward) Kennedy.
Kennedy, Robert Hayward was born on December 16, 1887 in Southboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel A. and Ilda M. (Hayward) Kennedy.
AB, Amherst College, 1908. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1912.
Surgical director, Beckman-Downtown Hospital, 1929-1957; consultant surgeon, Tuxedo Memorial Hospital, from 1930; attending surgeon, University Hospital, 1935-1953; consultant surgeon, University Hospital, from 1953; visiting surgeon, Bellevue Hospital, 1949-1955; consultant surgeon, Bellevue Hospital, from 1955; associate clinical professor surgery, New York University Postgraduate Medical School, 1947-1953; lecturer, New York University Postgraduate Medical School, from 1953; consultant, from 1953.
1st lieutenant Medical Research Council, 1917-1919, colonel Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Fellow American College of Surgeons (chairman committee on trauma 1939-1952, governor 1942-1949, 1st vice president 1952-1953), American Surgical Association. Member American Medical Association, American Association for Surgery of Trauma (vice president 1952-1953, president 1954-1955), Society United States Medical Consultant World World War II, New York Surgical Society, New York Academy Medicine International Society Surgeons, Masons, Amherst Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Theta, Nu Sigma Nu, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Nelle Moore Brooks, March 19, 1926 (divorced 1945). Married Florence Wallace, 1945.