Jack Elmer Tetirick (1926-August 26, 2019) was born in Marysville, Ohio. He joined the Armed Forces at the age of seventeen. He enlisted in the Navy and was sent to Naval Station Great Lakes and later for training to become a Naval Aviator. WWII ended prior to the completion of his training and after his Honorable Discharge he matriculated to The Ohio State University where he met the love of his life, Helen Hartman. Jack and Helen were married 70 years, until her death, and had three children.
Tetirick finished his undergraduate work at Ohio State and was accepted to medical school at the university. Two years later he transferred to Harvard University where he completed medical school and afterwards was accepted into a surgical residency at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital in 1951.
Tetirick returned to Columbus and settled into a busy practice at Riverside Methodist Hospital and Grant Medical Center. In the last 15-20 years of his medical practice he also served as the Director of Medical Affairs at Grant. He and the administrator of Grant, Don Ayers, brought the first air transport medical service to central Ohio, LifeFlight, in 1983. With the influx of terribly injured patients, of course there had to be the necessary support for the critically ill and injured. Thusly the foundations of its Level I Trauma designation, a task Mr. Ayers laid at Tetirick's feet to recruit those qualified and put them in place. While at Grant, Tetirick also started the Grant Hospital Family Practice Program. He modeled the development of this program from what he had seen at the Massachusetts General. Currently known as the Family Medicine Residency at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, its establishment in 1971 was one of the first programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Tetirick was also a past president of the Columbus Medical Association (1976), the author of four books, and acquired two U.S. patents.
The Jack E. Tetirick, MD Papers (approximately 0.5 linear feet) contains information about and writings by Dr. Tetirick.
The collection is arranged alphabetically.
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[Identification of item], Jack E. Tetirick, MD Papers, SPEC.201122.TETIRICK, Medical Heritage Center, Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University.