Historical records matching Dr. James Addison Halsted, M.D.
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About Dr. James Addison Halsted, M.D.
From a biography of James A. Halsted in "The Journal of Nutrition" http://jn.nutrition.org/content/118/4/421.full.pdf
Dr. Halsted began his professional career as a phy sician. Born in Syracuse, NY, in 1905, to Dr. Thomas H. and Charlotte (Palmer) Halsted, he graduated from Middlesex School in Concord, MA, in 1922 and from Harvard University in 1926. In 1930 he received the M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School and did his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital. His resi dency was at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland. Dr. Halsted pioneered in establishing a group medical practice in 1936, the Dedham Medical Associates, which is still active today. He practiced as a physician in Dedham and Boston until 1950, except for the period during World War II when he served with the Massachusetts General Hospital Unit in North Africa and the Medi terranean. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and was awarded the Legion of Merit Award for his studies of psychosomatic illnesses of combat soldiers..
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Dr. Halsted was married to Isabella Hopkinson from 1930 to 1951. They had two sons, Thomas and Charles (currently professor of Internal Medicine at the Uni versity of California, Davis, and president-elect of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition), and two daughters, Elinor and Isabella. After divorce he met and married Anna Roosevelt Boettiger in 1952 and adopted her son, John. Following Anna's death in 1975, he was briefly married to Diana Hopkins. In 1982, finally re tired, he returned to Boston where he died of leukemia at age 79 on March 2, 1984, surrounded by his family members.
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Dr. James Addison Halsted, M.D.'s Timeline
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April 19, 1905
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Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States
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| 1984 |
March 2, 1984
Age 78
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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