Background
Dameron, Thomas Barker was born on June 1, 1924 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Barker and Isa Rebecca (Sills) Dameron.
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Thomas Barker Dameron
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Doctor of Medicine Duke U., 1947.
Career
Intern, Baylor University Hospital, Dallas, 1947-1948;
resident in general surgery, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, 1948-1949;
resident in orthopaedic surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1949-1954;
physician in orthopaedic surgery, Wake County Hospital (now Wake Medical Ctr), Raleigh, North Carolina, since 1954;
also partner, Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic. Member of staff Rex Hospital, Wake Memorial Hospital, Raleigh Community Hospital. Instructor orthopaedic surgery Duke School Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, 1954-1962.
Adjunct associate professor poultry science North Carolina State University, 1961-1968. Clinical professor orthopaedic surgery U. North Carolina School Medicine, Chapel Hill, since 1965. Physician consultant Cooperative American Relief Everywhere, Tunis, Tunisia, 1969.
Consultant Sudan Interior Mission, Soddo, Ethiopia, 1973. Board directors Triangle East Bank, Wake Medical Center.
Achievements
Membership
Past chairman Governor's Advisory Committee for Study of Crippled Childrens Facilities in North Carolina. Former board directors United Fund Raleigh and Wake County, Hayes Barton Methodist Church, Wake County Muscular Dystrophy Association, HilltopHome, Wake County Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Center. Founding president Parents of VA Episcopal School.
Member American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association (house of deals for orthopaedic surgery 1975-1978, house of deals North Carolina Medical Society since 1981), Wake County Medical Society (president 1971), Raleigh Academy Medicine, North Carolina State Medical Society (chairman, member various committees, president 1984-1985), North Carolina Orthopaedic Association (past president), Southern Medical Association (president 1978-1979, past chairman of the executive committee, chairman county), American Academy Orthopaedic Surgeons (chairman admissions committee 1978-1979, president 1988-1989), American Bd.Orthopaedic Surgery (board directors 1975-1982, president 1981-1982), American Orthopaedic Association, Association Bone and Joint Surgeons, 20th Century Orthopaedic Association, International Society Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Society International Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (chairman United States section since 1989), Orthopaedic Resident Association of Johns Hopkins Hospital (founding president), Raleigh Chamber of Commerce.
Connections
Married Nancy Henry, August 26,1949. Children: Thomas Barker III, David Henry, Christopher Buxton Williams, Nancy Van Vleet, Almquist, Rebecca Jane.
