Grover Powers
Grover Francis Powers (August 12, 1887 – April 18, 1968)
Grover Powers was born in 1887 in Colfax, Indiana,[1] and grew up in Lafayette, Indiana.[2] He graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in 1908 and from Johns Hopkins University with an M.D. in 1913. The first seven years of his career were spent at the Johns Hopkins Hospital department of pediatrics,[1] where he worked with John Howland, Edwards A. Park, Kenneth Blackfan, and William McKim Marriott.[2] He moved to the Yale University department of pediatrics with Edwards A. Park in 1921, and succeeded Park as chairman of the department in 1927, a position he remained in until his retirement in 1952.[1]
Powers' contributions to pediatrics included proposing guidelines for the care of premature babies and for the management of infantile
Powers served as president of the American Pediatric Society[3] and received the society's highest honor, the John Howland Award, in 1953. He also received a Lasker Award from U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.[4] He died in 1968 in New Haven, Connecticut.[1]
References
- ^ PMID 6340039.
- ^ a b Darrow, Daniel C. (1953). "Grover F. Powers". Pediatrics. 12 (2): Special Sections.
- ^ PMID 14913992.
- ^ PMID 8441112.
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