Ex-secretary of the Youth Health Study of Arizona. Mentioned in the 4/9/1946 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 (appears as Ellis): “Dr. Dixon asked Dr. Tappan to introduce Dr. Sydney Ellis [ Gellis ], ex-secretary [ i.e., Executive Secretary ] of the Youth Health Study in Arizona. He spoke a few words about the program.”
Arizona Medical Board record: Sydney S. Gellis MD; license issued: 10/05/1946; medical school: HARVARD MED SCH, Boston, Massachusetts; graduation date: 06/23/1938.
See Arizona Medicine Mar 1946, 3(2) p104-105: “Between March 1st and June 1st, 1946, a nation-wide study of the health services for the youth of the country is being made by practicing doctors under the sponsorship of the American Academy of Pediatrics. … [article signed by] Vivian Tappan, M.D., State Chairman for Arizona, American Academy of Pediatrics; Sydney Gellis, M.D., Executive Secretary for Youth Health Study in Arizona.”
Same Sydney Gellis?
SYDNEY S. GELLIS; A. GRAEME MITCHELL. CROSS INFECTION WITH TYPE I PNEUMOCOCCUS. J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1941; 116: 2580 - 2581.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1951; 146: 1142: Newly elected officers serving during 1951 for the Society for Pediatric Research include Dr. Horace L. Hodes, New York, president; Dr. F. Howell Wright, Chicago, vice president, and Dr. Sydney S. Gellis, Boston, secretary-treasurer.
JAMA, Dec 1962; 182: 37: A Boston pediatrician and professor, Dr. Sydney S. Gellis, has been appointed acting dean of Boston University's School of Medicine, according to "a joint announcement by University President Harold C. Case and Dr. Lewis H. Rohrbaugh, director of the Boston University Medical Center. Gellis succeeds Dr. Lamar Soutter who remains professor of surgery. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, class of 1938, Dr. Gellis has been professor of pediatrics and chairman of the department of pediatrics at Boston University since 1956. He is also director of pediatrics at Boston City Hospital.
Abraham B. Bergman, MD. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:218. Sydney S. Gellis, MD (1914-2002) [obituary]: The world of pediatrics lost a giant when Sydney Gellis, MD, died on December 6 in Newton, Mass, at age 88 years. A better clinical teacher did not exist. Gellis taught at all 3 medical schools in Boston, Mass, but was most closely associated with the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts University's New England Medical Center, where he worked from 1965 until his official retirement in 2001….
Arizona Medical Board record: Sydney S. Gellis MD; license issued: 10/05/1946; medical school: HARVARD MED SCH, Boston, Massachusetts; graduation date: 06/23/1938.
See Arizona Medicine Mar 1946, 3(2) p104-105: “Between March 1st and June 1st, 1946, a nation-wide study of the health services for the youth of the country is being made by practicing doctors under the sponsorship of the American Academy of Pediatrics. … [article signed by] Vivian Tappan, M.D., State Chairman for Arizona, American Academy of Pediatrics; Sydney Gellis, M.D., Executive Secretary for Youth Health Study in Arizona.”
Same Sydney Gellis?
SYDNEY S. GELLIS; A. GRAEME MITCHELL. CROSS INFECTION WITH TYPE I PNEUMOCOCCUS. J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1941; 116: 2580 - 2581.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1951; 146: 1142: Newly elected officers serving during 1951 for the Society for Pediatric Research include Dr. Horace L. Hodes, New York, president; Dr. F. Howell Wright, Chicago, vice president, and Dr. Sydney S. Gellis, Boston, secretary-treasurer.
JAMA, Dec 1962; 182: 37: A Boston pediatrician and professor, Dr. Sydney S. Gellis, has been appointed acting dean of Boston University's School of Medicine, according to "a joint announcement by University President Harold C. Case and Dr. Lewis H. Rohrbaugh, director of the Boston University Medical Center. Gellis succeeds Dr. Lamar Soutter who remains professor of surgery. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, class of 1938, Dr. Gellis has been professor of pediatrics and chairman of the department of pediatrics at Boston University since 1956. He is also director of pediatrics at Boston City Hospital.
Abraham B. Bergman, MD. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:218. Sydney S. Gellis, MD (1914-2002) [obituary]: The world of pediatrics lost a giant when Sydney Gellis, MD, died on December 6 in Newton, Mass, at age 88 years. A better clinical teacher did not exist. Gellis taught at all 3 medical schools in Boston, Mass, but was most closely associated with the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts University's New England Medical Center, where he worked from 1965 until his official retirement in 2001….
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