Background
Badger, Theodore Learnard was born on November 17, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Arthur Campbell and Grace (Richardson) Badger.
Badger, Theodore Learnard was born on November 17, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Arthur Campbell and Grace (Richardson) Badger.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1922. Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1926.
Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1926-1927. Assistant medical resident Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1928-1929. Chief resident chest service Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1929-1930.
Practice internal medicine specializing in pulmonary disease, Boston, from 1931.
Faculty Harvard Medical School, 1931-1968, clinical professor medicine, 1964-1968, clinical professor medicine emeritus, after 1968, Theodore L. Badger lecturer pulmonary disease, 1974, 75. Staff Boston City Hospital, 1931-1968, visiting physician, chief respiratory disease Clinic.
Chief staff Channing Home for Tuberculosis, Boston, 1935-1958. Active staff New England Deaconess Hospital.
Board consulation Massachusetts General Hospital, 1945-1976, honorary physician, 1976-1980.
Area consultant pulmonary diseases Virginia, 1948-1960. Consultant Boston Lying-In Hospital, Peter Bent Brigham and Boston Hospital Women and Children, Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Chief medicine 5th General Hospital-Harvard, 1942-1944.
Senior consultant in Tuberculosis.
Served lieutenant colonel Military Cross, Australia, 1942-1945. Diplomate American Board Internal Medicine, with certification in pulmonary diseases. Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Preventive Medicine (honorary).
Member American Clinical and Climatological Association, American Thoracic Society (honorary.
Married Alice Wetherbee, August 27, 1936. Children: Ann Badger Emery, Martha Badger Simpson.