Background
Myers, Warren Powers Laird was born on May 2, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Dashiell and Mary Hall (Laird) Myers.
Myers, Warren Powers Laird was born on May 2, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Dashiell and Mary Hall (Laird) Myers.
Graduate, Episcopal Academy, 1939. Bachelor of Science, Yale University, 1943. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1945.
Master of Science in Medicine, University Minnesota, 1952. Postgraduate (Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation fellow), University Cambridge, England, 1963.
Rotating intern, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1945-1946;
intern medicine, Maimonides Hospital, New York City, 1948-1949;
resident fellow in medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1949-1952;
clinical assistant, Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1952-1954;
assistant attending physician, Memorial Hospital, 1954-1958;
associate attending physician, Memorial Hospital, 1959;
attending physician, Memorial Hospital, 1959-1990;
instructor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1955-1956;
assistant professor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1956-1959;
associate professor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1959-1968;
professor medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1968-1986, professor emeritus, since 1986;
associate dean, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1977-1986;
department chairman medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, 1967-1977;
vice president for educational affairs, Memorial Hospital, 1977-1981;
Eugene W. Kettering professor, Memorial Hospital, 1979-1986;
attending physician, New York Hospital, New York City, 1968-1986;
member, Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, New York City, 1969-1990;
member emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, since 1990;
consultant, Rockefeller U. Hospital, New York City, 1977-1986. Member clinical cancer training committee National Cancer Institute, 1970-1973, chairman, 1971-1973, chairman clinical cancer education committee, 1975-1978. Adjunct Professor medicine Dartmouth Medical School, 1987-1996, professor medicine emeritus, since 1996.
Consultant staff Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, N.H., 1987-1996.
Board directors Rye (New York ) United Fund, 1969-1972, chairman budget committee, 1968-1969. Board directors Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund, 1976-1986, president, 1985-1986. Trustee Hitchcock Clinic, Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1983-1996, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, 1983-1995, chairman executive committee, 1992-1995, teacher's college Columbia University, 1980-1986.
Trustee Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, 1997-2000, vice president, 1999-2000—. Elder 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1969-1986, Norwich Congregational Church, deacon, 1998-2002. With Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve, 1946-1947.
Fellow American College of Physicians, New York Academy Medicine (vice president 1983-1985). Member American Clinical and Climatological Association, American Association Cancer Research, Endocrine Society, Harvey Society, American Federation Clinical Research, Practioners' Society of New York, American Medical Association, American Association Cancer Education (president 1984-1985), American Society Clinical Oncology, Founders and Patriots Pennsylvania, Yale Club, Charaka Club, Century Association (New York City), Alpha Omega Alpha. Clubs: Yale, Charaka, Century Association (New York City).
Married Katharine Van Vechten, July 1, 1944. Children: Warren Powers Laird, Junior, Anne Van Vechten Myers Evans, Duncan McNeir, Sara Myers Gormley.