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Dr. C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD
Dr. C. Everett Koop was born in Brooklyn, on October 14, 1916, graduated from Dartmouth college in 1937 and received his MD degree from Cornell Medical College in 1941.
After completing an internship at the Pennsylvania Hospital, he pursued postgraduate training at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital.
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After promotions up the academic ladder, he was named Professor of Pediatric Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in 1959 and Professor of Pediatrics in 1971. Most recently he was the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School.
A pediatric surgeon with an international reputation, Dr.
Koop became Pediatric Surgeon-in-Chief of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1948 and served in that capacity until he left academia in 1981. He was the founding Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery and served in that c