Basic Information

• Category: Professional Organizations » Healthcare/Medical Services
• Tags: #medical #pediatric
• Location: 9303 New Trails Drive, Suite 350 The Woodlands, TX 77381  - Get Directions
• Description: The American Pediatric Society was founded during the last part of the nineteenth century, at a time when scientific medicine was only just emerging from the shadows of empiricism and polytherapy.
  
  The major impetus for the organization of the APS came from Job Lewis Smith of New York who saw the...  moreThe American Pediatric Society was founded during the last part of the nineteenth century, at a time when scientific medicine was only just emerging from the shadows of empiricism and polytherapy.
  
  The major impetus for the organization of the APS came from Job Lewis Smith of New York who saw the need for a forum for the discussion of pediatric issues and clinical problems. Smith was responsible for convening a small meeting of physicians who had attended the Pediatric Section
  
  of the Ninth International Medical Congress, held in Washington, DC on September 7-9, 1887. Smith was Chairman of the Section and invited a “few members” to meet after the adjournment with the express purpose of setting into motion activities to establish the American Pediatric Society. Among those attending were Smith, W.D. Booker of Baltimore, I.N. Love of St. Louis, S. C. Busey of Washington and W.P. Watson of Jersey City. Smith was elected temporary chairman, and Booker temporary secretary of the proposed society. A decision was made that the new society would be independent and avoid entangling alliances, especially with the AMA. ¹  less

Contact Details

• Phone: 346.980.9707
• Email: American Pediatric Society
• Website: https://www.aps1888.org/contact/