Background
III, Samuel Preston Martin, was born on May 2, 1916 in East Prairie, Missouri, United States. Son of Samuel Preston and Lucy (Simmons) M.
III, Samuel Preston Martin, was born on May 2, 1916 in East Prairie, Missouri, United States. Son of Samuel Preston and Lucy (Simmons) M.
Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Washington University, 1941.
Intern, resident, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, 1941-1944; chief medical resident, Duke Hospital, 1947; visiting investigator, Rockefeller Institute Medical Research, 1948; associate medicine and microbiology, Duke U. School Medicine, 1949-1950; assistant professor medicine and microbiology, Duke U. School Medicine, 1950-1953; associate professor, Duke U. School Medicine, 1953-1956; professor, head department medicine, U. Florida, 1956-1962; provost Health Center, U. Florida, 1962-1970; visiting professor, Harvard University Medical School, 1970; professor medicine, executive director, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1971-1978; director Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1975-1988. Consultant Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1987-1989, Los Angeles School Board, 1989-1996.
Served to captain Army of the United States, 1944-1947. Member American Association Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Association Immunologists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine.
Married Cornelia Ruth Campbell, July 2, 1939. Children— Samuel Preston, William Barry, Celia Susan. Married Dorothy E. Matson, September 5, 1970.