Walter Clement Alvarez

Background

Alvarez, Walter Clement was born on July 22, 1884 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Luis Fernandez and Clementina (Schuetze) Alvarez.

Education

Doctor of Medicine Cooper Medical College (Stanford), 1905. Postgraduate Harvard Medical School, 1913.

Career

Assistant in clinic pathology, Cooper Medical College, 1906-1907. Physician Cananea, Mexico, 1907-1909. Internist San Francisco, 1910-1925.

Assistant in medicine, Stanford, 1911-1912.

Assistant in research medicine, University of California, 1915-1916, instructor, 1916-1920, assistant professor, 1920-1924, associate professor, 1924-1926. Successively associate, head of section and senior consultant Division Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1926-1950, emeritus, 1950-1978.

Associate professor medicine Mayo Foundation, University of Minnesota, 1926-1934, professor, 1934-1951, emeritus. Professorial lecturer medicine University of Illinois Medical School, 1951-1952, emeritus.

Trustee Josiah Macy, Junior, Foundation, 1930-1932.

First Caldwell lecturer American Roentgen Ray Society Diplomate American Board Internal Medicine, American Board Gastroenterology.

Achievements

• Walter Clement Alvarez has been listed as a noteworthy physician. by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: Mechanics of the Digestive Tract, 1922. The Neuroses, 1951

  • Danger Signals, 1953. Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain, 1954, An Introduction to Gastroenterology, 1948.
    
    Danger Signals, 1957. Live at Peace with Your Nerves, 1958. Practical Leads to Puzzling Diagnosis, 1958.
    
    Minds that Came Back, 1961. Incurable Physician, An Autobiography, 1963. Little Strokes, 1966.
    
    Nerves In Collision, 1972. Emeritus editor-in-chief Modern Medicine, also Geriatrics Syndicate medical columnist, 1951-1978.

Membership

Fellow American College of Physicians. Member Association American Physicians, American Physiological Society, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Gastroenterol. Association (president 1928.

Club: University (Chicago.

Connections

Married Harriet Skidmore Smyth, February 22, 1907. Children: Gladys (Mistress First Rate (at Lloyd's) Muirhead), Luis Walter, Robert Smyth, Bernice (Mistress Bradley Brownson).