Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

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Pinner, Max

Of the Desert Sanatorium. Mentioned in the 11/15/1932 and 2/13/1934 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Read papers on “Changes in Morphology in Blood in Certain Types of Blood Dyscrasia” and “History and Present Status of B.C.G. Vaccination.”

Piper, John Kemp Warfield

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

J Am Med Assoc. 1923;81(1):58: John Kemp Warfield Piper, Russellville, Ky. ; University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1893 ; member of the Kentucky State Medical Association; aged 52; died, June 12, at Phoenix, Ariz., of pneumonia.

Piper, Virginia Galvin

The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust was created in 1995 by Virginia Galvin Piper, the widow of Motorola founder Paul Galvin. Ten years after Galvin's death in 1959, she married Kenneth Piper, vice president of Motorola, who passed away in 1975. Following Virginia Piper's death in 1999, the trust received $589 million from her estate, making it the largest foundation in Arizona and one of the one hundred largest in the nation. Since opening its doors to the public, in September 2000, it has awarded grants totaling $140 million.

Plath, Otto Ernest

Arrived in Phoenix in October, 1896. ArMA president: 1906. Dates: 1864-1919.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 143.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 364: “Earnest”

Platt, William Erastus

Arizona Medical Board record: W. E. Platt MD; license number: 41; license issued: 05/27/1903; medical school: UNIV OF LOUISVILLE SCH OF MED; graduation date: 06/30/1893.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: born December 10, 1859, died November 13, 1941.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 364.

Ploussard, Charles Nicholas

Arizona Medical Board record: Charles N. Ploussard MD; license number: 1012; licensed date: 04/06/1926; medical school: ST LOUIS UNIV SCH OF MED, St. Louis, Missouri; graduation date: 05/31/1922; area of interest: general surgery
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Plummer, Norman H.

Mentioned in the 10/7/1941 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Carrell then opened the scientific program introducing Dr. Dozois who presented Dr. Norman Plummer’s ‘Film on Pneumonia’.”

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1939; 112: 1484: Treatment of Pneumonia with Sulfapyridine (Lantern Demonstration). Herbert K. Ensworth and Norman H. Plummer, New York. [AMA Ninetieth Annual Session, St. Louis, Mo. Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Wednesday, May 17 -- 2 p.m.]

Podolsky, Abe I.

Middle name “Israel”[?]
Came to Arizona in 1937. ArMA president: 1956. Dates: 1908-1984. Arizona Medical Board record: Abe I. Podolsky MD; license date: 10/6/1937; medical school: ROSALIND FRANKLIN U OF MED & SCI, North Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 02/19/1937.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 168.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: middle name appears as “Israel”

Poehner, John

Practiced in 1950-1961.
Johnson, Scott. Something more: osteopathic medicine in southern Arizona. Tucson, Ariz. : Osteopathic Press, 1992, pages 37, 42, 45, 107.
Arizona Medical Board record: John Poehner DO; license issued: 11/19/1950; medical school: Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine CCOM, Chicago, IL; graduation date: 06/30/1944.