Robert Pearl Ball

Background

Ball, Robert Pearl was born on July 14, 1902 in Harlan, Kentucky, United States. Son of Robert Lee and Sarah Margaret (Carter) Balliol

Education

Student Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1918-1919, Honorary Doctor of Science, 1948. Doctor of Medicine, University Louisville, 1924.

Career

Intern, Louisville City Hospital, 1924-1926. Fellow in surgery Cleveland Clinic, 1926-1928. Surgical pathologist U. Louisville School Medicine, 1928-1930.

General surgical practice, Louisville, 1928-1932.

Radiologist, Chattanooga, 1932-1936, Presbyterian Hospital and College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1936-1949. Professor radiology. College Physicians and Surgeons, 1947, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1949-1951.

Radiologist-in-chief New York Hospital, 1949-1951. Private practice radiology, Baton Rouge, 1951-1952.

Radiologist-in-chief Oak Ridge Hospital, 1952-1977, also East. Tennessee Hospital for Chest Diseases.

Achievements

• Robert Pearl Ball has been listed as a noteworthy physician. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served lieutenant colonel Military Cross, Australia, 1942-1945. Named Outstanding Physician of Year, Tennessee Medical Association, 1974. Member American Medical Association, American College Radiology (chancellor 1945-1950, vice president), American Roentgen Ray Society (representative on National Research Council 1949-1951), Radiological Society North. American, New York Roentgen Society (president 1950-1951), New York State Medical Society, New York Academy of Medicine, Harvey Society, British Institute Radiology, Society Medico-Quirurgica del Guayas, Ecuador, South America

Connections

Married Grace Baggerly, August 13, 1927. Children: Robert P., Elizabeth Castleman.

Father:

Robert Lee Ball

Mother:

Sarah Margaret (Carter) Ball

Spouse:

Grace Baggerly

child:

Robert P. Ball

child:

Elizabeth Castleman Ball