Lorrin Andrews Shepard (March 24, 1890 – July 16, 1983) was an American medical missionary who served as the chief physician at the American Hospital (Istanbul) from 1927 to 1957.
[1] Born in Antep, Ottoman Empire, he was the son of Fred D. Shepard, a surgeon at Antep American Hospital, and Fanny Andrews Shepard, a physician who worked as a nurse and founded a vocational workshop due to local prohibitions on female physicians.
[2] Shepard completed his education in the United States, attending Yale University for his undergraduate studies and Columbia University for medical school.
[2] During his tenure, he oversaw the planning and construction of the hospital's Nişantaşı building in 1939 and the Admiral Bristol Nursing School in 1949.
[2] After retiring in 1957, Shepard returned to the United States where he directed the Yale University Foreign Students Centre and managed the cataloging of the university's Ottoman Manuscripts Collection.