Author Biographical Info
Francis Irving Catlin was born on December 6, 1925 in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1948 from Johns Hopkins University, where he also served two residencies in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery. Dr. Catlin served in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps from 1950-1952 at the rank of Captain and was the Assistant Chief of E.N.T. Service, U.S. Air Force, 1100th Medical Group, Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. Dr. Catlin taught and conducted research as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins from 1955-1972.
There, he was a part of the Department of Otolaryngology in the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health and Hygiene’s Environmental Medicine Department, and the Public Administration. In 1972 Dr. Catlin and his family moved to Houston, Texas, where he accepted the appointments as Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology; as Chief-of-Service in the department of Otolaryngology at St. Luke’s Episcopal the and Texas Children’s Hospitals; and as the Director of the Speech, Language, and Learning Disorders at the Texas Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Catlin died February 24, 2014 and is buried in Church Hill, Maryland.
Publication Date(s)
Compiled in January, 1992
Abstract
The Francis Catlin, MD papers contains photographs, pamphlets, magazines, university and government publications, notes from his medical research and experiments, and letters to colleagues documenting the research and the professional life of Francis Catlin, MD.
Keywords
Otorhinolaryngology, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Houston (Tex.), St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (Houston, Tex.), Baylor College of Medicine, Francis Catlin, photographs, pamphlets, magazines (periodicals), publications (documents), research (documents), letters (correspondence), correspondence
Recommended Citation
Francis Catlin (1925-2014), "MS 084 Guide to Francis Catlin, MD Papers (1942-1996)" (1992). Manuscript Finding Aids. 187.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/findingaids/187
