Cecil H. Coggins

Cecil Hammond Coggins (November 22, 1933–September 19, 2019), who went by Pete, was an American physician who specialized in nephrology, the branch of medicine dealing with the kidneys. He was the editor of the Annual Review of Medicine from 1994–2000.

Cecil H. Coggins
BornNovember 22, 1933
Long Beach, California
DiedSeptember 19, 2019(2019-09-19) (aged 85)
Education
Partner(s)Clemency née Chase
Children3
Scientific career
Institutions

Early life and education

Cecil Hammond "Pete" Coggins was born on November 22, 1933 in Long Beach, California to parents Dorothy née Hammond and Cecil Hengy Coggins. Because his father was a physician in the U.S. Navy, Pete traveled widely as a child. He lived in Oroville, California, Washington, D.C., and went to high school in Qingdao, China. He attended Yale University for his bachelor's degree and Harvard Medical School for his Doctor of Medicine.[1] While in Oroville, he was employed by the Oroville Mercury-Register, the local newspaper.[2]

Career

Following medical school, he interned at Massachusetts General Hospital. Afterwards, he joined the United States Navy for two years[3] and was stationed abroad in Cyprus. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, though moved back to the east coast in 1965 for a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He continued his practice at the hospital in nephrology and internal medicine, then worked at Beacon Hill Practice. From 1965–2015 he was also an instructor at Harvard Medical School.[1] In 1994, he succeeded William P. Creger as the editor of the Annual Review of Medicine. He held the editorship until 2000, at which time C. Thomas Caskey became editor.[4][5]

Personal life and death

He married Clemency Chase in 1956, daughter of novelist Anya Seton and granddaughter of naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton and suffragist Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson.[2] They had two sons and a daughter together. Coggins enjoyed outdoor activities like camping, hiking, and sailing:[1] in 1991, he sailed on the Meridian, a 45 ft (14 m) sailboat, on a 21-day and 3,200 mi (5,100 km) journey from Scituate, Massachusetts to Dartmouth, England.[6] He also practiced knot tying. He died on September 19, 2019.[1]

References
  1. "Cecil "Pete" Coggins". The Boston Globe. 19 September 2019.
  2. "Cecil H. Coggins reveals betrothal". Oroville Mercury Register. Oroville, California. 6 October 1955. p. 3.
  3. "Dr. Coggins will lecture at hospital". North Adams Transcript. North Adams, Massachusetts. 25 March 1971. p. 11.
  4. Creger, William P.; Coggins, Cecil H. (1993). Annual Review of Medicine: Selected Topics in the Clinical Sciences. ISBN 9780824305444.
  5. Coggins, Cecil H. (1994). Annual Review of Medicine, 1994: Selected Topics in the Clinical Sciences: 45. ISBN 0824305450.
  6. Bruzelius, Nils J. (2 August 1991). "Marine life". The Boston Globe. pp. 25, 29.
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