Robert Pease Smith

Background

Smith, Robert Pease was born on April 26, 1917 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Levi Pease and Julia (Pease) Smith.

Education

AB, Princeton University, 1939; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, 1943; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1947.

Career

Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1943-1944; assistant resident in pathology, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, 1943; resident in medicine, Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington research fellow, Harvard Medical, Boston, Massachusetts, 1955; director, Vermont Rehabilitation Center, 1956-1966; director rehabilitation, Louisville (Kentucky) Rehabilitation Center, 1969-1972; director rehabilitation, Gaylord Hospital director rehabilitation, New Britain (Connecticut) Memorial Hospital, 1972-1987; director rehabilitation, Stamford (Connecticut) Rehabilitation Center, 1972-1976; director physical medicine, Stamford (Connecticut) Hospital, 1972-1976; consultant, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, New London, Connecticut. Director rehabilitation Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, 1969-1972. Consultant Norwalk Hospital;assistant professor Yale University School Medicine, 1972-1980, New York Medical College, 1972-1983.

Staff member Jewish Memorial Hospital, Kentucky, Children's Hospital, Louisville General Hospital, Methodist Evangelical Hospital, Veterans Administration Hospital, Norton Memorial Infirmary. Assistant, associate professor College Medicine U. Louisville.

Achievements

• Robert Pease Smith has been listed as a noteworthy physiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Captain Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1944-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow American College of Physicians, American Academy Physical Medicine, American Congress Rehabilitation Medicine. Member American Academy Physical Medical and Rehabilitation, American Congress Medical Rehabilitation (past president eastern section), American Society for Clinical Evoked Potentials, Chittenden County Medical Society (life).

Connections

Married Caroline Wheelock, July 5, 1947. Children: Robert Pease Junior, Cynthia W.S., Julia Smith Wilson Wheelock, Sarah Smith Neagle, Alexander Wheelock, Elizabeth Huntington.

Father:

Levi Pease Smith

Mother:

Julia (Pease) Smith

Spouse:

Caroline Wheelock

child:

Cynthia W.S. Smith

child:

Alexander Wheelock Smith

child:

Elizabeth Huntington Smith

child:

Sarah Smith Neagle Smith

child:

Julia Smith Wilson Wheelock Smith

child:

Robert Pease Junior Smith