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Notes for John Perry HUBBARD
Dr. John Perry Hubbard, a physician and educator who helped to develop more reliable testing methods for medical education and medical licensing, died Tuesday in his home. He was 87. He died of pneumonia following a stroke, a family spokeswoman said
Dr. Hubbard was president and chief executive of the National Board of Medical Examiners in Philadelphia from 1950 until his retirement in 1974. He helped develop a relationship between state medical licensing boards and the national board, leading to the development of the Federation Licencing Examination and a uniform standard of qualification for medical practice.
From 1950 to 1966 he was also a professor and the chairman of the department of public health and preventive medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He also served on the Philadelphia Board of Health from 1952 to 1964.
After retirement Dr. Hubbard served two terms as president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and helped establish a teaching and research center to study the medical sciences and their relationship to current issues.
He was a 1931 graduate of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hubbard started his career in pediatrics and did early work in pediatric heart surgery. In 1966 he was honored by the American Heart Association. He served in the Army Air Forces in World War II and afterward directed a nationwide study of child health services and pediatric education for the Academy of Pediatrics. This work won the Lasker Group Award for the academy in 1949.
He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Edgerton and Florence Lloyd; and seven grandchildren
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