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AAP News Vol. 30 No. 11 November 2009, p. 34 © 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics
AAP past president Dr. MacQueen, advocate for women, childrenTrisha KoriothStaff Writer John C. MacQueen, M.D., FAAP, of Iowa City, Iowa, died Sept. 23 at age 92. He served as AAP president in 1974-’75. An advocate for the health of women and children, he was a major contributor to the successful passage of the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant during the Reagan administration, according to R. Don Blim, M.D., FAAP, AAP past president (1980-’81). Dr. MacQueen was director of the Iowa Child Health Specialty Clinics, the state’s Title V public health program serving children with special health care needs, from 1956-’86 and president of the Association for Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children’s Services Program from 1967-’70. Active on all levels of AAP leadership, he was Iowa Chapter chair from 1963-’66, District VI chair and Executive Board member from 1967-’73, member of the Council on Pediatric Practice (1967-’73), chair of the Committee on Purpose, Policy and Structure (1972) and member of the Long-Range Planning Committee (1976-’82).
In 1988, Dr. MacQueen received the AAP Job Lewis Smith Award and in 1978, the AAP Clifford Grulee Award. Dr. MacQueen received his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine (1949) and completed pediatric residencies at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., from 1946-’47 and the University of Iowa Department of Pediatrics from 1947-’49. He also completed a residency in neurology at the University of Iowa Department of Neurology from 1954-’56. He served in a front-line hospital in World War II during the Battle of the Bulge, and his medical unit was the first to enter the Dachau concentration camp. Professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and University of Iowa Health Clinics (1958-’87), he co-founded and served as co-director of the National Maternal and Child Health Resource Center (National Health Law and Policy Resource Center) at the University of Iowa in 1981. In 1987, he became professor emeritus of pediatrics and continued to serve as adjunct professor of law at University of Iowa School of Law where he taught mediation law. He is survived by his wife, five children, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A fund was established in Dr. MacQueen’s memory to carry on his work on behalf of mothers and children. Contact Josephine Gittler at the University of Iowa at 319-335-9046 or Josephine-gittler{at}uiowa.edu.
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