Edwards A. Park (doctor)

[1] During his career, Park was Chief of Pediatrics at the Harriet Lane Home for two decades, and published articles on medical conditions such as rickets and lead poisoning.

He spent the next two years as an intern at the New York Foundling Hospital, working for six months in pediatrics where Dr. John Howland was an attending physician.

[4] Park also spent several months at the City Hospital on Blackwell Island, where he cultivated pathological skills and insight crucial to his later research in rickets.

[5] After completing varying internships, Park began his career at a private practice from 1909-1912 where he worked for Theodore Caldwell Janeway as an office assistant.

Although Park initially declined because he was working with Dr. Janeway at that time and felt obliged to stay in the position, he later joined the small staff in an effort of creating a new full-time department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins.

When World War I broke out in 1914, the American Red Cross sent Park to Le Havre, France, to run an orphanage for Belgian children.

With a limited staff of only three doctors, a nurse, and an executive secretary, Park established a clinic and a small hospital in the local neighborhood.

This experience affected his decision to hire Ruth Wendell Washburn in the summer of 1918 and build a department of social service.

On 1 December 1927, Park collaborated with the Rockefeller Institute and the Commonwealth Fund to set up a pediatric heart disease clinic at Johns Hopkins in the outpatient dispensary.

Park invoked concerns about access to and cost of pediatric health care and advocated for a central focus surrounding a few particular diseases.

Park received the Goldberger Award for this study at the age of 85, and he also included his findings through years of bone growth research in the publication of his last paper in 1964.

While working at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Park lived in Garrison, Maryland, with his wife, Agnes Bevan, an English woman he had met in London in 1911.