John P. McGovern
| John P. McGovern | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 2, 1921 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | May 31, 2007 (aged 85) Galveston, Texas |
| Residence |
 United States
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| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Allergology |
John P. McGovern (June 2, 1921 - May 31, 2007) was an American allergist, investor and philanthropist. He established the McGovern Allergy Clinic in Houston, Texas, created the Texas Allergy Research Foundation and the John P. McGovern Foundation, and co-founded the American Osler Society.
He received his B.S. in Medicine from Duke University in 1943 and received his M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1945.
He did post-graduate training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, McGuire Hospital and at Duke.
At Yale-New Haven Hospital, he was a pediatric intern from July 1945 to June 1946. Then, he served from 1946 to 1948 in the Medical Corps of the United States Army as Captain and as the chief of the paraplegic section.
He was an assistant resident at Duke for 6 months. He then spent the first half of 1949, in a pediatric fellowship in England and France, at L'Hôpital des Enfants Malades (Paris) and at Guy's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital (both in London). Next, he served as assistant chief, then chief resident for another year and a half at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C.. In 1951, he was a study of pulmonary pathology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.
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