Background
Lippard, Vernon William was born on October 4, 1905 in Marlboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Charles and Lucy Maria (Balcom) Lippard.
Lippard, Vernon William was born on October 4, 1905 in Marlboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Charles and Lucy Maria (Balcom) Lippard.
Bachelor of Science, Yale, 1926, Doctor of Medicine cum laude, 1929. Doctor of Science, University Maryland., 1955.
Rowland. Intern New Haven Hospital, 1929-1930. Assistant resident and resident pediatrician New York Nursery and Child’s Hospital, 1930-1932. Resident pediatrician New York Hospital, 1932-1933.
Instructor pediatrics Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1933-1937, associate pediatrics, 1937-1938.
Director study commission Study Crippled Children, New York City, 1938-1939. Associate dean College Physicians and Surgs., Columbia, 1939-1946.
Dean, professor pediatrics School Medicine, Louisiana State University, 1946-1949. School Medicine, University of Virginia, 1949-1952.
Dean, professor pediatrics School Medicine, Yale, 1952-1967, assistant to president for medical development, professor pediatrics, 1967-1971, dean emeritus, 1971-1984.
Board medical consultant Oak Ridge Institute Nuclear Studies, 1948-1952, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1955-1960. Member board counsellors Smith College, 1959-1964. Consultant Josiah Macy Junior Foundation, 1967-1975.
President Association American Medical Colleges, 1954-1955.
Board of directors Grant Foundation, 1967. Founds. Fund for Research in Psychiatry, 1953-1967, World Education, 1973-1975, Gaylord Hospital, 1972.
National Fund for Medical Education, 1975.
Member board counsellors Smith College, 1959-1964. Served to colonel, Military Cross, Australia. 1942-1945; Member Society Pediatric Research, Association American Physicians, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Margaret Isham Cross, August 29, 1931.