Background
PARRAN, Thomas was born on September 28, 1892 in Saint Leonard, Maryland, United States. Son of Benjamin and Mary (Latimer) Parran.
New York State Health Commissioner
PARRAN, Thomas was born on September 28, 1892 in Saint Leonard, Maryland, United States. Son of Benjamin and Mary (Latimer) Parran.
Bachelor of Arts, St. John’s College, 1911, A.M., 1915. Doctor of Medicine Georgetown University, 1915. Doctor of Laws, St. John’s College, Syracuse University, St. Bonaventure College, Toronto University, University, California.
Doctor of Science, Georgetown University, Duquesne U., Colgate University, Columbia, Wesleyan University, Tufts College, U. Maryland., Rutgers University, U. Utah, Marietta College, Washington and Jefferson College, Marquette U., Duke, University of Pennsylvania, New York University. Doctor of Public Health, Doctor of Public Hygiene, New York University. Pharmaceutical D., Philadelphia College Pharmacy and Science.
Doctor of Science, U., Pittsburgh.
June 26. 1918. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, 1917. Assigned to investigate Typhoid Fever in Tennessee, Oklahoma and Missouri, 1917. Detailed as Medical Officer, in charge of Muscle Shoals Sanitary District and Chief Medical Officer at Government, nitrate plant at that place, 1918-1919.
Detailed to the Medical Department of the War Risk Insurance Bureau, 1919. Appointed State Director of Rural Sanitation in Missouri, transferred to Jefferson City, 1921. Designated by the Surgeon General as the Official Representative of the United States at an interchange of public health officers in Denmark, 1926.
Science Director of the Committee on Research in Syphilis. Assistant Surgeon General in charge of the Division of Venereal Diseases, United States Public Health Service, 1926-1930. Editor: Venereal Disease Information and author of many other medical publications.
Appointed State Commissioner of Health, New York.
Member of New York State Regents Committee on Medical Education, since 1961. Member of advisory board Point Four Program, 1950.
Married Angela Bentley Vandoren, June 26, 1918 (deceased).; married second, Buda Carroll Keller, August 30, 1930 (deceased). Children: Thomas, Benjamin, Theodore Vandoren, Richard Bentley.