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Latest revision as of 21:18, 16 September 2024

170 medical practitioners as of Feb. 2024. If a name is in BLUE, there's additional data (testimony, anecdotes, etc.) to be found by clicking on their name. 

Chiropractors

1. Bitler, John - West Valley Bible Chapel elder (Canoga Park, CA)
2. Cox, Donald - missionary in Canada
3. Day, Daniel - Vinita, OK
4. Day, David - Portland, OR
5. Day, Kenneth - Washington
6. Elliot, Clara - Portland, OR; Jim Elliot's mother
7. Elliot, Robert - Jim Elliot's brother
8. Groothuis, Glen L. - Cedar Falls Gospel Hall (IA)
9. Hazel, Robert H., Sr. - Fifth Ave Chapel elder (Belmar, NJ) '65
10. Hazel, Robert H., Jr. - (Spring Lake, NJ) - 
11. Hollensed, William Charles - (Warrenville, IL & Dubuque, IA) 
12. Hunt, A.E.  - Riverside assembly elder (CA) '27-'36
13. Mandyke, George J. - 1945 @ Palmer School of Chiro., 1969 TW contact @ Samuels Meeting Room, ID ; practiced 1945-1995 WA, ID, BC; 
14. McCullough, Eric - Irish-Canadian Hall itinerant
15. Morgan, Jeremiah - cofounder [Renewal Waxhaw, NC] (2018 OB hive-off from Fairbluff Bible Chapel, NC).
16. Munro, Hugh Johnson St. Vital Gospel Hall elder '36; Grace Chapel elder '43 (Winnipeg)
17. Niequist, Richard - Carpentersville, IL assembly
18. Thropay, Adam D. -  (Downey, CA) current practice

Dentistry

1. Brend, Arthur - London dentist and photographer; Ministered among assemblies in the Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland; Bible translator in Faroese; 
2. Cronin, Augustus (1841-1891) - son of Dr. Edward Cronin (cofounder of PB); 16 years surgeon-dentist to the London Homeopathic Hospital (now the "Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine";
3. Dashwood, Percy Thomas - correspondent @ Atlanta Meeting Room, GA. Longtime faculty (crown & bridge works) at the Atlanta-Southern Dental College (Emory University School of Dentistry) 1887-1992.
4. Eliassen, Jústinus -Leirvík, Faroe Islands;
5. France, William W. - 1879 corr. Lincoln Exclusive Brethren Hall, DE
6. Gill, John D. - dentist - '36-'43 elder Westfield NJ assembly; founder Woodside Chapel; 
7. Gill, W.W. - dentist - supervisor of local school dental inspection; '27 elder Westfield NJ assembly; 
8. Harbaugh, Travis - Stout Gospel Hall (IA)
9. Harshaw, Edward Jr. - pediatric dentist - Lansdowne Gospel Hall elder (PA) '65
10. Harshaw, Robin - pediatric dentist (son of Edward)
11. Harshaw, Winslow - pediatric dentist (grandson of Edward)
12. Hinman, Thomas P. - raised at Atlanta Meeting Room, his father founded the assembly. Thomas served as the first Dean of Atlanta-Southern Dental College (1887-1992), later known as Emory University School of Dentistry. Thomas was elected President of the National Dental Association in 1922.
13. Lord, George T. - Dentist - 1876-1947; '36 Kensington Gospel Meeting (Buffalo, NY)
14. Johnson, Earl Latimer - (1885-1961 Pittsfield, MA); 1941 corr. @ Pittsfield Gospel Hall.
15. Nielsen, Karl Johan - dentist - Faroese grandson of highly respected early Brethren member 
16. Powell, Raymond W. - corr. @ Atlanta Meeting Room +1944-1973+; instructor +1922-1923+ @ Southern Dental College of Atlanta.
17. Rule, Robert William Sr. - dentist @ Oakland, CA 1904-1920+, professor of dentistry +1930-1940+. Son of Alexander Hume Rule, 1880 founder of Des Moines Meeting Room in IA (TW).
18. Sealey,  Vernon Thomas - noteworthy Australian oral surgeon; Taylor Brethren; 
19. Tan Yew Ee - Dentist in Singapore, his father Tan See Boo founded the first Chinese Gospel Hall in Singapore with Alexander Grant in 1862;

Hematology

1. Mikhael, Joseph Riad - Scottsdale, AZ - Uplook missions conference speaker; faculty of advanced cancer research @ TGen; Chief Medical Officer @ International Myeloma Foundation; Councilor on the Executive of the American Society of Hematology; Myeloma Physician @ HonorHealth Research Institute; Former Hematologist @ Mayo Clinic

Homeopathy

1. Cronin, Edward - 1801-1882 - Irish pioneer of homeopathy (1836) in England; cofounder of the PB;
2. Cronin, Eugene Francis - son of Edward
3. Kidd, Joseph (1824-1918) - physician of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, who twice served as PM of the U.K., and played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies & broad outreach, according to Wikipedia.
4. Mackern, Thomas (b. 1819 Limerick, R.I. - d. 1874 Eastbourne, East Sussex, Eng.)

Nephrology

1. Hull, Alan R. - Trinity Fellowship elder - found. pres. Dallas Nephrology Assoc. (TX)

Neurology/Psychiatry

1. Gardner, Jim - 25+ years mental health professional; former elder Hutchinson Gospel Chapel; author "Trading Pain For Peace";
2. Joseph. Preti - Arbor Oaks Bible Chapel, Dubuque, IA
3. Mathai, Samuel - psychiatrist 21+ years specializing in veterans; elder @ Edmonds Lane Bible Chapel (TX);

Nursing

1. Engle, Mary Lou Leonard - Woodside Bible Chapel, Chicago, IL / Grace and Truth Gospel Chapel, Abilene, KS
2. Kosin, Gladys Puckey - first nurse at Wheaton College '31
3. McDougall, Janet- commended by many assemblies to Chad where she laboured for the Lord as a nurse for the locals for over 30 years. 
4. Mottram, Anna - Quadra Bible Chapel '60

Obstetrics

1. Bier, T.H. - obstetrics lecturer at Brantford General Hospital School; '27 Bethel Hall elder (Brantford, ON)

Oncology

1. Thropay, John P. - founder Beverley Oncology & Imaging (Montebello, CA)

Opthalmology

1. Brandt, David E. - Seattle, WA
2. Dahlstrom, Ralph R. - elder @ Los Alamos Christian Fellowship, NM; currently Anchorage, Alaska; 52+ years experience;
3. Harper, Howard F. - NZ to Pakistan 1954-1973+; Taught @ Jalalabad Medical School;
4. McIntyre, Michael Winfield - corr @ Birmingham Meeting Room, AL 1966-1968 while doing residency, setup practice ca. 1968 Gadsden where he has been corr @ Gadsden Meeting Room, AL since then.  Affiliated with the TW-N Exclusives +1966-2016+.  52+ years experience in opthalmology. 

Optometry

1. Aceti, Peter - '93 cofounding elder Queen Street Bible Chapel (Sault Ste. Marie, ON)
2. Brandt, Larry L. - corr Hitesville Gospel Hall (IA) 
3. Dobson, Irene May Boyd (1915-1969) - lifetime Roberts Memorial Gospel Hall (IL); wife of  Herbert Gladstone Dobson (1905-1981), evangelist
4. Littlefield, David Townsend - KCMO
5. Littlefield, Clara Etta Bomgardner (1865-1956) - KCMO
6. Littlefield, James Edwin (1860-1950) - Atascadero, CA; Maine; KCMO; operated correspondence school "Kansas School of Optics"
7. Littlefield, Lawrence (1921-2016) - KCMO & Atchison, KS; first eye doctor in KC to fit contact lenses, has patents on contact lens manufacturing machines; Elder @ Riverbend Bible Church & Spruce Hill Bible Chapel; 
8. Littlefield, Ralph Edwin (1885-1976) - KCMO
9. Munson, George S. - '36 elder Albany Gospel Hall (NY)
10. Youmans, G.A. - '36 (Flint, MI)
11. Youmans, George Henry -  '36 Central Gospel Hall of Flint, MI.  (b. 1876 Washington Co., IN - d. 1943 Flint, MI)

Osteopathy

1. Jones, David Andrew - 1952-2017 - (Topeka, KS)
2. Moomaw, Bertha Ella Fahrney - 1874-1974 - Washington, D.C. - Grad. American School of Osteopathy in 1909; 
3. Moomaw, Kenton Benjamin - 1870-1939 - Washington, D.C.  Grad. American School of Osteopathy in 1909;  Ministered at Grace Gospel Chapel, Plumsteadville, PA Memorial Day conference.
4. Rule, James Clarke 1903-1940+ (1880-1964) @ Stockton, [{California|CA]], son of Alexander Hume Rule, founder of Des Moines Meeting Room (TW) in Iowa.
5. Waskey, Bertram Henry - 1918-1996 - EB - (Troy, MI)

Pediatrics

1. Dippy, Theodore Albert - 1925-2013 - Hiawassa Bible Chapel elder (Orlando, FL)
2. Rendle-Short, Tyndale - 1919-2010 - Univ. of Queensland professor - Child Autism (AU)

Pharmaceutical

1. Stephens, Samuel founder Southside Gospel Chapel (Chicago, IL)

Podiatry

1. Nutt, Gary - Des Moines Meeting Room, IA (TW) +1958 - son of Walter Lee Nutt, Jr.
2. Nutt, Walter Lee, Jr. - Des Moines Meeting Room, IA (TW) +1958
3. Nutt, Walter Lee, Sr. - Des Moines Meeting Room, IA (TW) +1933-1958?
4. Petterson, Kurt - Hickory GH (NC) / founding elder @ Denver GH (NC); Former Owner @ Brookdale Foot Clinic, Statesville (NC)

Public Health

1. Rochat, Roger - Atlanta, GA faculty mentors graduate students @ Emory U; MD since '66; raised TW to Presbyterian; Swiss ancestor founded one of the earliest (open?) assemblies in his home in St. Paul, MN in 1850;

Radiology

1. Craddock, Mark Christopher James - PBCC radiologist @ Sydney, Australia;

Surgeon

1. Ahrenholz, Donald J. - plastic/recon surgeon - Waterloo Gospel Hall elder (IA)
2. Arge, Eliesar - 1925-2007 - specialist in anesthesiology & surgery - Chief Surgeon @ Faeroe National Hospital (1964-1995); 
3. Baker, Daniel - 2019 studying @ Harvard - Jackson Gospel Hall (MI) / Saugus Gospel Hall (MA)
4. Fisher, Walter - NZ to Africa with Fred. Arnot 1889
5. McKilliam, Robert - (1837-) MD & CM @ Aberdeen; Practiced as physicians and surgeon @ Old Meldrum, Forgue, and Huntly (til 1880).
6. Garnes, Arthur L. - first black plastic surgeon in America - Grace Gospel Chapel (NYC)
7. Kendall, Arthur Samuel (b. 1861 Sydney, N.S. - d. 1944), son of Samuel Frederick Kendall, pioneer evangelist on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
8. Rendle-Short, Arthur - 1880-1953 - Bristol Univ. professor of surgery (UK); founder IVF;
9. Schofield, Alfred Taylor - 1846-1929; 
10. Schofield, James Ewart - 1901-1964 - General Surgeon -
11. Schofield, Robert Harold Ainsworth - 1851-1883; China Inland Mission surgeon; Pioneered the treatment of opium addicts; dying prayer resulted in intro of the Cambridge Seven which inspired IVF/IVCF;

Urology

1. Currie, Alison - Urology @ John Hopkins University; daughter of Harold Garnes
2. Garnes, Harold - Chief of Urology @ Harlem Hospital; Assoc. Clinical Prof. of Urology @ College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University; Grace Gospel Chapel (NYC)

Veterinary

1. Innes, John Lael (1923-2010) - Asheville Gospel Chapel elder (NC) from Minneapolis;
2. Landis, Dr. George Marsh (1941-2019) - large animal vet 34 years; ministries: Monterey Chapel (PA); Gideons; Lancaster Prison ministry; Water Street Rescue Mission; bible camps; [https://memorials.groffeckenroth.com/dr-george-landis/3825637/index.php Obit] 

General Medicine and/or TBD

1. Abadir, Sami MD - anesthetist Mount Ridge, NJ
2. Allen, William - North Shore Assembly (Zion, IL) '66
3. Andrews, H.D. - East Aurora assembly elder (NY)
4. Bardsley, G. Percy - NZ to Singapore, specialized in T.B. 1947-1960
5. Barnardo, Thomas John - Irish founding director Barnardo children's homes; 
6. Barton, William - Angola 1922+ from Elim Hall, Glasgow; founded the Murchison Mission Hospital
7. Bell, John P., MD - Long Beach Gospel Hall elder (CA)
8. Best, D.R. - Kingstown Gospel Chapel elder (Bristol, VA) '65
9. Binns, C.G. - St. Catherine, Jamaica elder '65
10. Bitler, John - West Valley Bible Chapel elder (Canoga Park, CA) '65
11. Bow, H.G. - De Land Gospel Hall elder (FL) '43
12. Boyce, H.A. - Kingston Gospel Hall elder (ON) '36
13. Brown, Graham - NZ to Papua New Guinea 1973
14. Brown, R.R.H. - Adrossan, Scotland; courtesy Mark Alamangos of Sydney, Australia (via Gordon Rainbow)
15. Brown, Roger H. - UK (married NZ) to Bolivia 1935-1967; 1973+ Translated Quechuan New Testament 1949;
16. Cameron, Hugh A. - Scottish right-hand-man of Thomas Donald William "T.D.W." Muir, who encouraged Will Pell to start Assembly Annals;
17. Candlish, Henry Maiben - Bethany Gospel Chapel elder (Montreal, QC) '69
18. Case, J. Norman - Medical College of NY U grad 1880; China 1891-1915; Wrote for "The Treasury"
19. Coates, Peter - NZ? to Kasaji, Africa 1968;
20. Cronin, Edward - co-founder of the PB;
21. Darling, John Singleton - served council 1925-1926 British Medical Association; elder Lurgan Hall, Northern Ireland; Harold (& Ian) Paisley's mother served as governess for Dr. Darling pre-marriage.  
22. Davis, Christopher James (1842-1870)- "The Good Black Doctor", from Barbados, served at St. Barthomew's Hospital, then head of an International Hospital in Sedan, France during the Franco-Prussian War where he contracted (and died) of smallpox.  Earliest black graduate of Aberdeen University; obit from Neil Dickson
23. Drake, S.J. - Fort Lauderdale Gospel Chapel elder (FL) '65
24. Edwards, Rowland Campbell (1884-1971); contributor to PB history;
25. Eitel, Dr. - Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bethesda; 
26. Fisher, John - NZ to Africa with Murchison Mission Hospital; son of Singleton Fisher;
27. Fray, S. - Shiloh Chapel elder (White Plains, NY)
28. Gilpin, Terence - NZ to Africa with Murchison Mission Hospital
29. Gracey, J.A. - 1860-1930; 1890 - Waxahachie, TX; '09 vice-pres North TX District Med Assoc.; '15 pres. Tarrant County Med Soc. (TX); '27 elder Ft. Worth, TX assembly; 
30. Hagen, Samuel J. - Loch Hill Chapel elder (Baltimore, MD) '65
31. Hawthorne, Steve - Bolivia missionary
32. Higgins, A.J. "Sandy", MD - Barrington Gospel Hall elder (NJ)
33. Hill, Arthur Clare - co-founder Grace Chapel (Sherbrooke, QC)
34. Hinman, Richard Edward (1859-1919) - his father founded Atlanta Meeting Room in 1888. He was a practicing physician and taught physiology and histology at the Atlanta-Southern Dental College 1917-1919 alongside his brother Thomas, and two others from his assembly.
35. Horton, Donald R., MD - Quadra Bible Chapel teacher '60
36. Innes, William James (1865-1940)- '36 founded Pennington Gap, VA assembly
37. Jeffrey, C.E., MD - Ferndale assembly elder (Detroit, MI) '27 
38. Jetter, W.A. - '36-'43 Memphis Gospel Hall (TN); 
39. Jones, Ray., MD - 1926-2009 - founder Baldwin City Gospel Chapel (KS)
40. Keiser, Earl - Hardy, AR assembly elder '65
41. Kendall, Henry Ernest - son of Samuel Francis Kendall, founder of Victoria Gospel Hall & Sydney Assembly, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
42. Kennedy, Robert - missionary to West Indies from Kilbirnie, Scotland; 
43. King, S.F. - 1898 treas. N TX Med Soc.; vice-pres '12 El Paso Med Soc - '27-'36 El Paso Gospel Chapel (TX)
44. Klinck, William J. - co-founder Grace Chapel (Sherbrooke, QC); Huntingville Christian Church '70
45. Letts, Thomas Blake Edmonton, AB, (1910-1995) fellowshipped at Grace and Truth Gospel Hall (AB)
46. Littlefield, James - Bellevue Chapel elder (WA) '66
47. Mackern, Thomas - Blackheath, South London, England pioneer missionary to the West Indies
48. MacLean, John Lindsay - part of an early missionary interest group that included Henry Groves, Lord Congleton, and Robert Mitchell; 
49. McKilliam, Robert (1837-1915) - editor "The Morning Star"; elder Alexandra Hall, Blackheath, Scotland
50. Maki, Dr. - Tokyo, Japan assembly 1891
51. Matthews, William J. - pioneer assembly planter and itinerant to North America from  Northern Ireland; MD with high honors in 1880 from Queens University. 
52. Morey, O. - medical doctor to Africa commended early 1900's Southside Chapel (St. Louis, MO), worked with F.S. Arnot; 
53. Morris, "Bud" Morton C., MD - (1940-2017) - Delavan, IL
54. Murray, William - '27 elder Chicago Ave Gospel Hall (IL)
55. Neatby, Thomas (1835-1911) - London itinerant Methodist evangelist, then EB, then OB; author (1877) "Our Lord's Coming Again"
56. Nesbit, Albert - Downing Ave Gospel Chapel elder (Waterloo, IA) '65
57. Parks, T.D. - Northern Hills Bible Chapel elder (Cincinatti, OH) '65
58. Paterson - Birmingham, England; Glanton Brethren; courtesy Paul Allison of New Zealand (via Gordon Rainbow)
59. Price, Steve MD - Bible Chapel of Shawnee elder (Kansas City); itinerant preacher;
60. Rae, Don I. - Oaklands Chapel elder (Victoria, BC) '66
61. Rose, J.T. - Healdsburg assembly elder (California) '43
62. Saiki, Dr. - Kyoto, Japan assembly 1891
63. Sanctuary, Richard R., MD - Grace Bible Fellowship (Walpole, NH)
64. Shaw, Henry - early Brethren itinerant
65. Soutter, W.R. - missionary to Manchuria with J.H. Brewster, from Brechin asssembly, Scotland; 
66. Stephens, R.O. - Don Valley Bible Chapel elder (North York, ON) '65
67. Stollery, R.M. - EB @ Westminster Central Hall conference 1959
68. Taft, Albert Atherton (b. 1868 Hancock, Hillsborough, NH - d. 1946 West Swanzey, Cheshire, NH); wife: Ermine M. Taft; correspondent 1922 @ 20th & Dickerson (OB) assembly in N.H., possibly Nashua.
69. Tan Yew Wee - MD in Singapore, his father Tan See Boo founded the first Chinese Gospel Hall in Singapore with Alexander Grant in 1862;
70. Taylor, Addison - Central Gospel Hall elder (Toronto, ON) '36
71. Taylor, Donald Stewart (1924-2011) - son of Donald Munro Taylor (1892-1976), editor of Letters of Interest
72. Vallance, David - Itinerant preacher from Stark Road Gospel Hall (MI)
73. Wardrop, James - Buchanan Court Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
74. Warrick, D. - Hope Bible Chapel elder (Port Hope, ON)
75. Webber, N.B. - Hollywood, FL home assembly elder '27; Highland, MI doctor who served in '09 as early warden of St. John's of Detroit; 
76. West, S.H. - Sault Ste. Marie Gospel Hall elder (ON) '66
77. White, R.T. - Hamilton Gospel Hall elder (ON) '36
78. Wilson, Walter L. - founder Central Bible Hall & Calvary Bible College (Kansas City)
79. Wolston, Walter Thomas Prideaux - (1840-1917) Author and Editor @ The Gospel Messenger