James Whittico Jr. (November 18, 1915 – August 21, 2018) was an American physician from St. Louis, Missouri. He was the first African American named a full clinical professor at any medical school in St. Louis and was the fourth African American in St. Louis to be named a fellow for the American College of Surgeons. Whittico was in the private practice of medicine specializing in surgery from 1952 until 2015.
Born in Williamson, West Virginia, he followed his father James Whittico Sr. into the career of medicine. James Whittico Jr. attended Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, the nation's oldest historically black university. He entered Meharry Medical College, a historically black medical school in Nashville at the age of 19. One of his mentors was Matthew Walker Sr. He graduated medical school in 1940 and trained at St. Louis' Homer G. Phillips Hospital which was the largest hospital which offered training for doctors of color.[1]
^"Pioneering physician and surgeon Dr. James Whittico Jr. passes at 102". August 23, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
^Fisher, W.D.; Buckley, J.H. (2015). African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. pp. 244–245. ISBN978-1-4766-2317-7. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
^"James M. Whittico Jr., M.D.: 1916–2018". Retrieved September 5, 2018.
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