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Strong (RICHARD PEARSON an American)

RICHARD PEARSON, an American scientist, born at Fortress Monroe, Va., in 1872. He was educated at Yale University and in 1897 received the degree of M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He also studied at the University of Berlin, and received honorary degrees from Yale and Harvard. After having served as resident house physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he was appointed a first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, U. S. A., in July, 1898, and, in the following year, president of the board for investigating tropical diseases in the Philippine Islands. He established and directed the work of the Army Pathological Laboratory and from 1901 to 1913 was director of the government biological laboratory at Manila. From 1907 to 1913 he was professor of tropical medicine at the University of the Philippine Islands, and in 1913 became professor of tropical medicine at Harvard STRONG University. In 1915 he served as medical director of the International and American Red Cross Sanitary Commission to Serbia. During the World War he served in the Medical Reserve Corps, first with the British and French armies and later at A. E. F. Headquarters, being promoted eventually colonel, M. R.

C. He was a member of the Headquarters Investigating Committee and of the Inter-Allied Sanitary Commission in charge of the Division of Infectious Diseases. From December, 1918, to April, 1919, he was the director of the Department of Medical Research, American Red Cross, and in August, 1919, became general medical director of the League of Red Cross Societies. He war decorated with the D. S. M. and also received British, French, Chinese and Serbian decorations. He was a delegate to many international congresses and a member and officer of many domestic and foreign medical and scientific societies.