“The Patient is first, and last…always”

A History of the Department of Pediatrics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

First Patients Admitted 1909

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Early Pediatrics at Walter Reed

12 deliveries/month between 1920-40; dependent care was optional

War Brides and 10,000 infants transported to U.S. in 1st year after VE Day

High Infant Mortality on the USNS Zebulon Vance

Sister ship to USNS Cateau-Therrieu pictured above

COL Ogden Bruton

Pediatric Section Established March 1949

Rapid Growth in Pediatrics from ’49-’57

Year Outpatients Inpatients

1949 12,000 3711950 17,365 5331951 29,777 1,2191952 27,000 1,2441953 26,571 1,2001954 27,708 1,1941955 35,600 1,4471956 32,600 1,2341957 29,782 1,629

Rapid Growth in Pediatrics from ’49-’57

Pediatric Clinic: Building 7, 2nd Floor

Inpatient Pediatrics, Building 1Wards 16, 17 and 22

Walter Reed Newborn Nursery, 1954

Disease Tokyo WRAHInfections 62.6 13.0Prenatalproblems

12.4 43.0

Trauma 5.6 9.0Cancer 1.3 10.0Metabolic/endocrine

2.1 4.1

Diagnostic Breakdown of Inpatient Admissions at Tokyo and Walter Reed, 1950s

Primary Pediatric Medevac Site for the Western Hemisphere

Hospital for Foreign Dignitaries

Life on the Ward

“Frequent Flier” on the Inpatient WardJoseph S. Holtoner, son of a USAF Major General J. Stanley Holtoner

Meanwhile, a few miles away….

NNMC Pediatrics Starts July 1948 under CAPT James T. Fowler

Bethesda Naval Hospital, 1957

CAPT ThomasCone

LCDR Howard Pearson

LT CharlesWaite

CAPT Andy MargilethFather of Pediatric Dermatology

Walter Reed Expands in the 1960s

COL James Bass – Chief of Pediatrics 1975-1981

Women Pediatricians

1975Dr. Donna Schuster1st Female Graduate

Walter Reed

Mid 1960sDr. Eve Kimball

1st Female Intern in the ArmyMadigan AMC

COL Erroll AldenChief of Pediatrics, 1983-1987

Base Realignment and Closure - 1995

• Two residencies combined as the National Capital Consortium

• NICU and Newborn Services – NNMC• PICU, Inpatient Pediatrics – WRAMC• Subspecialty Clinics – WRAMC (mostly)• Primary Care Clinics - Both

USAF Trainees

• Occasional USAF Pediatric Residents since 1956• B.J. Beard swaps spots with Jill Emerick in 2002• First class of USAF pediatric interns starts 2006

Base Realignment and Closure, Round 22005