Background
Lee, Roger Irving was born on August 12, 1881 in Peabody, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Thomas and Mary Emily (Farnsworth) Lee.
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Education
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1902, Doctor of Medicine 1905, Doctor of Laws, 1954.
Career
Practiced in Boston, 1905-1914. Visiting physician Massachusetts General Hospital, 1912-1923. Henry K. Oliver professor hygiene Harvard, 1914-1924.
Returned to practice medicine, 1924.
Consultant internal medicine. Overseer, Harvard, 1930-1931, fellow, 1931-1954.
Commissioned major Medical Reserve Corps, April 5, 1917. Lieutenant colonel Medical Corps, United States Army, June 6, 1918.
Service in France with Base Hospital 5, and consultant in medicine to 3d Corps Advertising Educational Foundation, 1917-1919.
Honorary discharged, February 10, 1919.
Achievements
Membership
Member Public Health Council State of Massachusetts, 1921-1934. Fellow Royal College Physicians, London, England. Member Association American Physicians, Society Clinical Investigation, American College of Physicians (president 1941), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Medical Association ( chairman of the board of trustees, president 1945-1946), Massachusetts Medical Society (president 1943-1944).
Clubs: Somerset, Harvard (Boston).
Connections
Married Ella Lowell Lyman, February 26, 1919. Children: Roger Irving, Arthur Lyman, William Thomas.
