Abstract: Dr. Joseph Stokes, Jr., Emeritus Physician-in-Chief of the Children9s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, died suddenly on the evening of March 9, 1972. He was 76 years of age. He was a brilliant Chairman of Pediatrics who introduced the first diagnostic virus laboratory into any clinical department in these United States shortly after his appointment to his academic post in 1939. With his retirement in 1963 he became active at the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania where he was Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics in Community Medicine.
Publication Year: 1972
Publication Date: 1972-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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