James S. McLester

James Somerville McLester (January 25, 1877 - February 8, 1954) was an American physician, nutritionist and writer.

James Somerville McLester
BornJanuary 25, 1877
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
DiedFebruary 8, 1954
Birmingham, Alabama
OccupationPhysician, nutritionist

McLester was born at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[1] He was educated at the University of Alabama and graduated M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1899.[2][3] McLester studied medicine at Göttingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Munich.[4] In 1902, he was appointed professor of pathology at Birmingham Medical College.[1] He became professor of medicine, a post he held until 1912. He was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He became professor emeritus in 1949.[1]

During World War I, McLester was commissioned as First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps.[2] He was promoted in 1918 to Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel in 1919.[2] McLester received a LL.D. degree from the University of Alabama in 1929.[2] McLester was president of the Alabama Medical Association in 1920.[5] He was Chairman of the Council on Food and Nutrition of the American Medical Association and was president in 1935.[1]

He married Ada Bowron in 1903, they had four children.[2] McLester was described as "one of the nation's outstanding nutritionists".[6] In 1953, he was awarded the Joseph Goldberger Gold Medal for outstanding work in clinical nutrition by trustees of the American Medical Association.[2][7] McLester died from coronary thrombosis in Birmingham, Alabama.[8]

A portrait of McLester was unveiled in January, 2018 in the main lobby of the UAB Community Health Services Building at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.[9]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Dr. James Somerville McLester". The British Medical Journal. 1 (4859): 464. 1954.
  2. Carmichael, Emmett B. (1962). "James Somerville McLester: Nutritionist-Physician". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 36 (2): 141–147.
  3. "James Somerville McLester, MD". Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame.
  4. Wilder, Russell M. (1954). "James Somerville McLester: 1877-1954". Science. 120 (3111): 242–243. Bibcode:1954Sci...120..242W. doi:10.1126/science.120.3111.242. PMID 13186826.
  5. "McLester, James Somerville, 1877-1954". Alabama Authors.
  6. Holley, Howard L. (1982). The History of Medicine in Alabama. University of Alabama School of Medicine. p. 187. ISBN 978-0817300852
  7. "Dr. McLester Receives Nutrition Award". JAMA. 153 (15): 1367. 1953.
  8. Smith, Carter (1955). "Dr. James S. McLester". Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. 66: lxi–lxiii. PMC 2248923. PMID 13256567.
  9. "Portrait of former chair of Medicine unveiled before descendants and School leaders". University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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