Born: April 26, 1888 in Toronto, Canada
Died: November 29, 1970
Married: Janet Randolph Grace McPhedran
Children: Mrs. Ernest J. Mayer, Mrs. Robert Bingham, Dr. Alexander McPhedran, Dr. Peter McPhedran
Dr. Francis Maurice McPhedran was doctor in residence at the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis.
Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, 1977; 88: xlvi.
MEMORIAL FREDERICK MAURICE McPHEDRAN
BY J. EDWIN WOOD, III
Frederick Maurice McPhedran was born in 1888 in Toronto, Canada. He attended schools there and received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1912. Doctor McPhedran continued as an intern at the Toronto General Hospital in the following year. After that, he journeyed to London and was an assistant pathologist at the London Hospital for one year. He came to the United States in 1913 and served one year as an assistant resident physician at the Trudeau Sanitarium in New York. In 1923 Doctor McPhedran joined the Henry Phypps Institute as an assistant in clinical research in charge of the X-Ray Department for diagnosis of tuberculosis, where he remained until 1936.
He then joined the staff at Germantown Hospital until he retired in 1955. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a member of the staffs of the Children's Hospital and St. Christopher's Hospital in Philadelphia. He was made a member of the senior staff at the Germantown Hospital in 1958. Doctor Mc-Phedran was a member of the Association of American Physicians and the American Thoracic Society.
Doctor McPhedran belonged to the Germantown Society of Friends.
Doctor McPhedran is survived by his wife, the former Janet Randolph Grace, two daughters, Mrs. Ernest J. Mayer and Mrs. Robert Bingham as well as by two sons, Dr. Alexander McPhedran and Dr. Peter McPhedran. He had one sister, and there are ten grandchildren.