Background
Cole, Warren Henry was born on July 24, 1898 in Clay Center, Kansas, United States. Son of George and Mary (Tolin) Cole.
Cole, Warren Henry was born on July 24, 1898 in Clay Center, Kansas, United States. Son of George and Mary (Tolin) Cole.
Bachelor of Science, University Kansas, 1918. Doctor of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, 1920. Doctor of Science (honorary), Washington University, St. Louis, 1967.
Intern, Baltimore City Hospital, 1920-1921;
intern, assistant resident, resident in surgery, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, 1921-1926;
member department surgery, Washington University School Medicine, 1926-1936;
professor surgery, head Department, University Illinois College Medicine, Chicago, 1936-1966;
professor emeritus, University of Illinois College Medicine, Chicago, 1966-1990. Honorary consultant surgeon St. Vincent's Hospital, Australia, 1966. Frank Mann lecturer, 1943.
Arthur Hertzler lecturer, 1945. Moynihan lecturer, 1948. Straus lecturer, 1952.
Roswell Park lecturer, 1953. Judd, Sir Thomas Dixon, Mayo lecturer, 1954. Project director standards in cancer National Institutes of Health, 1967-1968.
President Interstate Postgraduate Assembly, 1953. Member Joint Commission Hospital Accreditors, 1953. Secretary committee surgery National Research Council, 1940-1946.
Vice chairman Advisory Board Medical Specialists, 1953. Chairman Conference Committee Graduate Training, 1957-1959. Member board science consultant Sloan-Kettering Institute, from 1957, chairman, 1968-1969.
Fellow American College of Surgeons (treasurer 1949-1955, president 1955), Royal College Surgeons (Edinburgh) (honorary), Royal College Surgeons (England). Member American Medical Association, American Geriatric Society (president 1958, section 1965, treasurer 1966), American Association Colon Surgery (president 1960), American Surgical Association (president 1959), Society University Surgeons (president 1940), American Association Surgery of Trauma (president 1955), Chicago Surgical Society (president 1942), Society Clinical Surgery, Chicago Medical Society (president North Side branch 1946, president 1950), Society Graduate Surgery, Chicago Institute Medicine (past board governors, president 1963), Western Surgical Association (secretary 1945-1949, president 1950), American Goiter Association (president 1958), Center Society Clinical Research, Center Surgical Society, Illinois Medical Society, American Cancer Society (board directors, president 1960, National award 1967), Society Experimental Biology & Medicine, Halsted Surgery Club (honorary), Detroit Academy Surgery, Tacoma Surgical Society (honorary) Texas Surgical Society (honorary), Minnesota Surgical Society (honorary), British Columbia Surgical Society (honorary), New Orleans Surgical Society (honorary), Buffalo Surgical Society (honorary), St. Louis Surgical Society (honorary), Argentine Surgical Society (honorary), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu.
Married Clara Margaret Lund, June 13, 1942.