Description: Up for auction a RARE! "Dermatologist" Richard L Sutton Jr Hand Written Letter on a Script. ES-7732E Physician, author, professor and founder of the Richard L. Sutton Jr. M.D. Geosciences Museum at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Vice president of the American Dermatological Society from 1969 to 1970. He was a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edinburgh, Scotland. He practiced dermatology in Kansas City, Missouri, for 44 years. He taught at the University of Kansas Medical Center, beginning in 1932; was chairman of the dermatology department from 1949 to 1956; and was a professor there until 1969. He was a clinical professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine from 1967 to 1970 and was a former senior consulting professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was co-author with his father, Dr. Richard L. Sutton, Sr., and sole author of later editions, of the textbook "Diseases of the Skin." He also wrote "The Practitioner's Dermatology, The Skin: A Handbook" and several other books on dermatology. He was named a master in dermatology by the American Academy of Dermatology in 1989. Dr. Sutton was an adjunct professor of geosciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; co-established the UMKC geosciences museum in 1973; and received an honorary doctor of sciences degree from UMKC in 1975. Beginning in 1980, he was an adjunct professor of ophthalmology at UMKC, and he helped design a deck of playing cards for the partially sighted. In 1981, he co-founded the Low Vision Clinic at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City. He attended Yale University, received a master's degree in embryology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1929, when he was 21 years old. He served on the board of trustees of the Barstow School, a private independent school for girls located in Kansas City, Missouri, and was president of the board from 1956 to 1957. During World War II, he served as a major in the Army Medical Corps. On Sept. 28, 1935, he married the former Serena Anne Neel, and they had four children: Serena Lee Sutton (b. 1938); Richard Neel Sutton, M.D. (b. 1940); Anne Louise Sutton Canfield (b. 1945); and Elizabeth Ellison Sutton Benefiel (b. 1950). As father and son same the same name, occupation, and similar careers they are often hard to distinguish. Sutton Jr was born in Kansas City on 11 May 1908. He attended Yale University for one year and then pursued studies at the University of Michigan. He earned a master's degree in embryology and an M.D. degree (1929) from the University of Michigan and went on to specialize in dermatology, joining his father's practice in Kansas City, Mo.
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