Walter Lawrence

Background

Lawrence, Walter was born on May 31, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter and Violette May (Matthews) Lawrence.

Education

Student, Dartmouth College, 1943-1944; Bachelor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1944; Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1945; Doctor of Medicine with honors, University of Chicago, 1948.

Career

Intern, Johns Hopkins, 1948-1949; assistant resident, Johns Hopkins, 1949-1951; fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1951-1952, 54-56; research fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1956; assistant member, assistant attending surgeon, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1957-1960; associate member, associate attending surgeon, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1960-1966; practice medicine specializing in surgery, New York City, 1956-1966; practice medicine specializing in surgery, Richmond, Virginia, since 1966. Instructor surgery Cornell Univercity, 1957-1958, assistant professional clinical surgery, 1958-1963, clinical associate professor, 1963-1966. Visiting investigator Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, England, 1964-1965.

Professor surgery Medical College Virginia, Richmond, since 1966, chairman division surgical oncology, 1966-1990, executive vice department chairman surgery, 1966-1973, acting chairman, 1973-1974, American Cancer Society professor clinical oncology, 1972-1977. Director Cancer Center, 1974-1988, director emeritus, since 1988. Chairman surgery test committee National Board Medical Examiners, 1973-1977.

Medical director-at-large Virginia division American Cancer Society, since 1967, medical vice president American Cancer Society, 1975-1977, president, 1977-1979, national delegate, 1972-1976, member of national county forrsch. and clinical investigation, 1974-1978, member professional education committee, 1982-1996, board directors, since 1985, vice chairman, chairman M&S committee, 1986-1988, chairman M&S Executive Committee, 1989-1990, president elect, 1990-1991, national president, 1991-1992, past office director, since 1993. Board science counsellors National Cancer Institute, 1978-1982, chairman surgical oncology research development committee. Member National Cancer Advisory Board, 1988-1994.

Governing county International Union Against Cancer, since 1994.

Achievements

• Walter Lawrence has been listed as a noteworthy Surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Served with United States Army, 1952-1954. Fellow American College of Surgeons (commission on cancer 1973-1985, chairman 1979-1981), New York Academy Sciences, Royal Society Medicine.

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, American Association Cancer Education, American Association Cancer Research, American Gastroenterol. Association (county on cancer 1972-1976), American Surgical Association, Halsted Society (president 1975), James Ewing Society, Society Head and Neck Surgeons, American Society Clinical Oncology, American Radium Society (executive county 1985-1987), Society Surgery Alimentary Tract (founder), Society Surg.Oncology (Executive Committee 1976-1977, vice president 1977-1978, president 1979-1980, chairman of the executive county 1980-1981), Society University Surgeons, Surgical Biological Club III (founding member), Transplantation Society, Collegium International Chirurgiae Digestive, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Pan American Medical Association, Sociètè Internationale de Chirurgie, Virginia Surgical Society (vice president 1973-1974), Richmond Surgical Society (president 1986-1987), Richmond Academy Medicine (trustee 1986-1987, 1st vice president 1988), Southern Surgical Association, Argentine Surgical Association (honorary), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Susan Grayson Shryock, June 20, 1947. Children: Walter Thomas, Elizabeth, William Amos, Edward Gene.

Father:

Walter Lawrence

Mother:

Violette May (Matthews) Lawrence

Spouse:

Susan Grayson Shryock

child:

Walter Thomas Lawrence

child:

Elizabeth Lawrence

child:

Edward Gene Lawrence

child:

William Amos Lawrence