Thomas Hodge Mcgavack

Background

Mcgavack, Thomas Hodge was born on April 7, 1898 in Waterford, Virginia, United States. Son of John Thomas and Esther Hodge (Clapham) Mcgavack.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Hampden-Sydney College, 1917. Doctor of Medicine Hahnemann Medical College, 1923.

Career

1 stepdau., Daphne Cather Durant. Instructor physics, mathematics Saint Christophers School, Richmond, 1917-1919. Intern Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, 1923-1924.

Resident pathology Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, 1924-1925.

Instructor medicine University of California Medical School, 1925-1927, assistant clinical professor, 1927-1935. Visiting physician Infant’s Shelter, San Francisco, 1926-1930.

Assistant visiting physician University of California, San Francisco hospitals, 1925-1936. Associate professor medicine New York Medical College, 1936-1946, professor clinical medicine, 1946-1957.

Director New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Research Unit, 1943-1957.

Visiting physician Flower and Fifth Avenue, Metropolitan hospitals, 1936-1957, Bird South. Coler Hospital, consultant in endocrinology and metabolism Prospect Heights Hospital, Brooklyn, 1944-1957, United States Marine Hospital, United States Public Health Service, Staten Island, 1945-1957, Monmouth (New Jersey) Memorial Hospital, 1948-1957. Chief intermediate service Veterans Administration Center, Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1957-1965, associate chief staff, 1961-1970. Consultant endocrinology Kings Daus.

Hospital, Martinsburg, 1957-1973.

Professional lecturer medicine George Washington University School Medical, 1957. Edward Henderson Lecturer gerontology American Geriatrics Society, 1962-1963.

Director Harlem Valley Investment Company.

Achievements

• Thomas Hodge Mcgavack has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member West Virginia Government"s Commision on Aging, 1967. Diplomate Board Internal Medicine. Fellow American College of Physicians.

Member of the American Medical Association, American Geriatrics Society (president 1956-1957, directory) Association Study Internal Secretions (council.

Mason (32 degree, Shriner).

Connections

Married Freda Nichols Wicks, May 2, 1930.

Father:

John Thomas Mcgavack

Mother:

Esther Hodge (Clapham) Mcgavack

Spouse:

Freda Nichols Wicks