Charles A.L. Reed | |
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Born | 1856 |
Known for | President of the American Medical Association, 1901-1902 |
Medical career | |
Profession | Medical doctor |
Charles A. L. Reed (1856-1928) was an American medical doctor. He served as president of the American Medical Association from 1901 to 1902.[1]
Charles Alfred L. Reed was born in Wolf Lake, Indiana, in 1856, the second son of Dr. Richard Cumming Stockton Reed and Nancy (Clark) Reed.[1][2] He was educated in the schools of Ohio and held a Master of Arts from Miami University, Oxford.[2] His medical education was received in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, in which institution his father held the professorship of materia medica and therapeutics.[1] Following graduation, he also studied in London and Paris.[2] He practiced medicine in Cincinnati, specializing in surgery.[2] He also practiced gynecology at several Cincinnati hospitals.[2]
He was President of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association in 1892 and the Secretary-General of the first Pan-American Medical Congress in 1893.[2][3] He later served as chairman of a committee on medical legislation within the AMA, circa 1905–1909.[4] He was also a lecturer and promoter of public health initiatives and professor emeritus of the medical faculty at the University of Cincinnati.[5]
Reed was a prolific author of monographs and journal articles.[2]
He was an opponent of Prohibition.[6][7]
He was married to the former Irene E. Dougherty. The couple had two children.[2]
He died of a heart attack on August 28, 1928, at the age of 72.[6]