L. Emmett Holt Jr.

L. Emmett Holt Jr.
L. Emmett Holt Jr.
Born	1895; New York
Died	1974; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Nationality	American
	Medical career
Field	Pediatrics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University
Sub-specialties	Pediatric nutrition
Awards	John Howland Award

Luther Emmett Holt Jr. (1895–1974) was an American

pediatrician. As a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and later New York University, he performed extensive research in the field of pediatric nutrition. He received the John Howland Award

in 1966.

Biography

L. Emmett Holt Jr., the son of the pediatrician Luther Emmett Holt, was born in New York in 1895. He graduated from Harvard University in 1916 and finished medical school at Johns Hopkins University in 1920. As a student at Johns Hopkins, he worked in William Henry Howell's laboratory and assisted in the research that led to the discovery of heparin. After graduating, he trained in pediatrics for a year at the Babies Hospital (now Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital) in New York City before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1922.^[1]

Holt practiced pediatrics at Johns Hopkins for 22 years under the leadership of

New York University School of Medicine.^[2]^[3] In 1947, he organized the first International Congress of Pediatrics since the end of World War II;^[2] that same year, he was awarded the Order of the White Lion for recommending oral feeding as treatment during a Czechoslovak epidemic of diarrhea in children.^[3] His contributions to international pediatrics also earned him the Order of the Star of Jordan.^[1]

Holt retired in 1960 and received the John Howland Award, the highest honor given by the American Pediatric Society, in 1966.^[1] He died in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1974 at the age of 79.^[3]