Background
Bauer, Walter was born on June 7, 1898 in Crystal Falls, Michigan, United States. Son of John and Caroline (Schmid) Bauer.
Bauer, Walter was born on June 7, 1898 in Crystal Falls, Michigan, United States. Son of John and Caroline (Schmid) Bauer.
Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan, 1920, Doctor of Medicine 1922. Master of Arts, honoris causa, Harvard, 1942.
Interne, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, 1922-1923, assistant resident in medicine, 1923-1924. Resident physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1924-1927, assistant in medicine, 1928-1929, assistant physician, 1929-1932, associate physician, 1932-1937, physician, 1937-1951, chief medical service since 1951. Instructor medicine Harvard Medical School, 1928-1929, faculty instructor and tutor in medicine, 1929-1932, assistant professor, 1932-1936, associate professor, 1936-1951, Jackson professor clinical medicine since 1951.
Consultant physician Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Consultant in medical research, Robert B. Brigham Hospital. Consultant Beth Israel, Lemuel Shattuck hospitals Director Robert West. Lovett Memorial Foundation for Study of Crippling Diseases, 1929-1958.
Chairman science advising committee, vice president board of trustees Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. National Research Council fellowship in England (with Sir Henry H. Dale), 1927-1928.
Certified by American Board of Internal Medicine, 1937.
Colonel, United States Army Medical Corps, medical consultant and director medical activities, 8th Service Commanded, 1942-1945.
Fellow New York Academy Medical Royal Society of Medicine. (London, honorary); member of the American Medical Association, Association of American Physicians (president 1959), Association professors Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, American College Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Rheumatism Association, American Physiological Society, Association for Study of Internal Secretions, Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston Society of Biologists, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of the United States Medical Consultants in World World World War World War II Member Swedish Medical Society, Pan American Medical Association, Danish Society Medicine.
Clubs: Harvard of Boston, Interurban, Peripatetic, Boston Orthopedic.
Married Margaret Zeller, September 12, 1931. Children: Walter Dale, Gretchen, Nancy Wallace.