Beaton, Lindsay Eugene

1911-1967. Mentioned in the 11/9/1948 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Lindsay E. Beaton MD; license date: 10/5/1946; medical school: NWU, FEINBERG SCH OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/15/1940; areas of interest: neurology and psychiatry.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Charter member (October, 1947) of the Graduate Club of Tucson (see Fish, Robert. “Annals of the Graduate Club of Tucson,” Aug 28, 1971 in the "Oscar Andreas Thorup, Jr. Papers, 1965-1978" [AHSL HT 0017].

JAMA. 1967;199(12):49: Lindsay E. Beaton, MD, chairman of the American Medical Association's Council on Mental Health, died of heart failure at his home in Tucson, Ariz. A psychiatrist for the University of Arizona, Dr. Beaton was also a psychiatric consultant to the Social Security Administration at the time of his death, February 8. Dr. Beaton was graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his Master of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees at Northwestern University Medical School. He continued at Northwestern's Institute of Neurology as a medical fellow of the National Research Council from 1940-1942. Before moving to Tucson in 1946, he served in the Army Medical Corps during World War II, becoming clinical director of psychiatry for the Tenth Army and a member of the Pacific Ocean Areas psychiatry team. Later, Dr. Beaton was chief of neuropsychiatry at the Tucson community hospitals and chief of staff at Tucson Medical Center. He was affiliated with such agencies as the Family Service Agency, American Red Cross, the Community Council, and State Hospital Board, and he was the president of the Arizona Medical Association in 1960. Co-editor of a volume of the US Army Medical History and author of numerous scientific articles, the 56-year-old psychiatrist was a native of Chicago.
JAMA, Apr 1967(200): 94: Beaton, Lindsay Eugene; Tucson, Ariz; Northwestern, 1940; chairman of the Council on Mental Health of the American Medical Association and from 1961 to 1965 a member of its House of Delegates; died Feb 8, aged 56, of multiple myocardial infarctions.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 10, page(s) 102,112,683; volume 11, page(s) 256
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