Membership of the Committee of American Physicians for Medical Preparedness (1916)
The Committee of American Physicians for Medical Preparedness was created at the Union League Club in Chicago on April 14, 1916. Frank F. Simpson, a Pittsburgh gynecological surgeon organized the group and led it's lobbying campaign in Washington. This self appointed group constituted the backbone of the General Medical Board, created by the Council of National Defense to assist its Advisory Commission in X of 1916. The members of the Committee's Executive appear in bold. Members of the General Medical Board appear in red. Each member's service to the committees of the General Medical Board are in italic.
William J. Mayo (Chairman) [President, American College of Surgeons] (Chairman, Committee on States Activities and Examinations; Chairman, Committee on Surgery)
Frank F. Simpson (Secretary) (Chief of Medical Service Division; Vice Chairman, General Medical Board; Vice Chairman, Executive Committee; Chairman, Committee on Standardization of Medical and Surgical Supplies)
Frank Billings (Medical Aid to Governor of Illinois; member, Central Governing Board of Volunteer Medical Service Corps)
John Fairbairn Binnie (Member, Committee on Surgery)
Joseph C. Bloodgood (Member, Committee on States Activities; Member, Editorial Committee)
George E. Brewer (Member, Committee on Surgery)
George W. Crile (Member, Committee on Standardization of Medical and Surgical Supplies and Equipment; Member Committee on Research)
J.M.T. Finney (Member, Committee on States Activities; Member, Committee on Legislation.
Charles L. Gibson (Member, Committee on Standardization of Medical and Surgical Supplies and Equipment)
Robert G. LeConte
Fred Bates Lund (Medical Aid to Governor of Kentucky)
Edward Martin (Chairman, Committee on States Activities and Examinations; Chairman, Committee on Medical Advisory Boards; First Vice Chairman, Committee on Surgery).
Franklin H. Martin [Member, Advisory Commission, Council of National Defense; (Chairman, General Medical Board; Chairman, Executive Committee).
Rudoph Matas
Charles H. Mayo [President, American Medical Association] (Chairman, Committee on Surgery).
Lewis S. McMurtry (Medical Aid to Governor of Kentucky)
Albert J. Ochsner
Charles A. Porter (Executive office, Council of National Defense)
Charles A. L. Reed
Emmet Rixford
Hubert A. Royster (secretary, Committee on Medical Publicity)
George E. de Schweinitz (member, Sub-committee on Ophthalmology, Committee on Surgery)
Henry Sewall
William S. Thayer [President, Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons]
Albert Vander Veer
Victor C. Vaughan (Chairman, Committee on Research; Chairman, Committee on Legislation)
Ex-officio Members
W. C. Gorgas, Surgeon General, United States Army
W. C. Braisted, Surgeon General, United States Navy
Rupert Blue, Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service
Colonel Jefferson R. Kean, Director of Military Relief, American National Red Cross
Major Robert E. Noble
President of the American Medical Association
President of the American Surgical Association
President of the Congress of Physicians and Surgeons of North America
President of Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America
President of American College of Surgeons.
