Long Island College Hospital - Lichonian Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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PROFESSOR WARREN and his Section in Jlledicine

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'ff'-' F 5 f f.W ' 554' W' ,f if sr 'ff f f f 5 - ---H 'is 'iifliliihlil ...i..?2Efi1'E,lml73asL5fL'2. 5..Q'ifiZ.,if''1.,FE?.ats.fv,2 :j1f'r,!.fQ2.:-12 IfELEZE'i'Q1IEl3EEZEQf2 H. SHERIDAN BAKETEL Professor of Prefzreniiive fllerlirine and Hygiene Phillips Exeter Academy, 1890, Medical Preparatory Course, Boston University, 1892, M.D., Dartmouth College, 1895, A.M., Holston College. 1908, F. A. C. P,, 1920, Instructor in Genito-Urinary Diseases and Syphilis, L. I. C. H., 1918, Lec- turer in Hygiene, 1916, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene and Lecturer in Genito-Urinary Diseases and Syphilis, 1917, Member of Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Kappa Kappa, Editor of Medical Times, 1911, President of American Medi- cal Editors' Association, 1920, Attending Syphilologist, Beekman Street Hospital, 1919, Attending Urologist, The Infantorium, 1921, Consulting Syphilologist, Peek- skill Hospital, 1923, Lt. Colonel, M. R. C., U. S. Army, Author of Treatment of Syphilis and many monographs on medical subjects, Member N. Y. Academy of Medicine, Am. Urol. Assn., Brooklyn Urol, Assn.-, Am. Public Health Assn., Am. Med. Ed. Assn., Associated Physicians of L. I., American Medical Association, etc. Page thu M emlzt