Date: 1998
Credit Line: Donated by Margaret (Peg) Leymaster
Made/Created
Artist
Joseph Routon
Date made
1998
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Framed
Height
42 in
Width
36 in
Interpretative Labels
Label Type
Exhibition Label
Label
Dr. Glen Leymaster received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene. After work in internal medicine and public health in Boston and time as a faculty member at Harvard and Johns Hopkins medical schools, he became chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah. He served as the Medical Education Advisor to Thailand under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service International Cooperation Administration from 1956-58.
As the Associate Secretary for the American Medical Association's Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, Dr. Leymaster championed emergency medicine as a formal specialty and was instrumental in the creation of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He served as the director of undergraduate education for the AMA, and was the executive director of the American Board of Medical Specialties from 1975-1981. He was a fellow of the American Public Health Association and a diplomat of Sigma Xi.
In 1964, Dr. Leymaster became the first male dean of the Woman's Medical College since the 1860s and oversaw its transformation into the co-educational Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1969.
