Frederic Atwood Besley

Frederic Atwood Besley FACS (18681944) was an American military medical doctor and surgeon during the during the World War I. He founded the American College of Surgeons, Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics and founding member of the American Board of Surgery. Background Besley was born at Waukegan, Illinois, his parent are William Besley (father) and (mother) Sylvia Jocelyn. He attended Chicago Manual Training School in 1880 and graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School in 1894 together with a colleague Franklin H. Martin. Medical career Besley started with internship at Cook County Hospital and began his practice in Chicago with specializing in surgery. From 1900 to 1908 he began to work in the Postgraduate Medical School together in the Northwestern Medical School and in 1901 to 1902 he worked as a professor of surgery in the Women's Medical College of Northwestern University. He later became an instructor of surgery in 1904 at the Northwestern University and finally became an advanced professor of surgery, serving as an staff member and consult of various hospitals in Chicago.