Born 1910 in the territory of Arizona (Williams, Arizona). ArMA president: 1959. Dates: 1910-1985. MD degree: University of Pennsylvania, 1935. Moved to Phoenix in 1945 to accept partnership with Drs. Fred Holmes and Howell Randolph. Professor of surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Father: Prince Albert Melick MD.
Arizona Medical Board record: Dermont W. Melick MD; license issued: 10/06/1936; medical school: UNIV OF PA SCH OF MED, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; graduation date: 06/22/1935.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 170.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
See: Melick DM: “The practice of medicine by four generations of the Melick-Dodge family encompassing the years 1920 through 1982." Ariz Med. 1982 Aug;39(8):535-7.
JAMA, Nov 1985; 254: 2485: MELICK, Dermont Wilson, 75, Phoenix; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1935; certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery; died July 20, 1985.
See also: Joseph Leidy, MD (1823-1891): Dr. Melick was related to Dr. Leidy’s first wife, Catharine Melick Leidy.
AHSL has a color photograph taken by Dr. Melick of the oil portrait of Joseph Leidy which is owned by the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and a color photographic print of UA COM founding dean, Merlin K. DuVal MD [undated, before July 20, 1985] (AHSL Special Collections XP-3 03; 1000-16).
Arizona Medical Board record: Dermont W. Melick MD; license issued: 10/06/1936; medical school: UNIV OF PA SCH OF MED, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; graduation date: 06/22/1935.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 170.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
See: Melick DM: “The practice of medicine by four generations of the Melick-Dodge family encompassing the years 1920 through 1982." Ariz Med. 1982 Aug;39(8):535-7.
JAMA, Nov 1985; 254: 2485: MELICK, Dermont Wilson, 75, Phoenix; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1935; certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery; died July 20, 1985.
See also: Joseph Leidy, MD (1823-1891): Dr. Melick was related to Dr. Leidy’s first wife, Catharine Melick Leidy.
AHSL has a color photograph taken by Dr. Melick of the oil portrait of Joseph Leidy which is owned by the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and a color photographic print of UA COM founding dean, Merlin K. DuVal MD [undated, before July 20, 1985] (AHSL Special Collections XP-3 03; 1000-16).
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 9, page(s) 86,87,89; volume 10, page(s) 93,208,471,594,595,683,684,690; volume 11, page(s) 141,253,256,295; volume 12, page(s) 4,16,34,68
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Residence(s)
Williams
Phoenix