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Janet Graham Travell (December 17, 1901 – August 1, 1997) was an American physician and medical researcher. [1] Early life and education. She was born in 1901 to John Willard and Janet Eliza (Davidson) Travell. Heavily influenced by her father's profession of physician, Travell made the decision to pursue a career in the medical field.
Janet G. Travell, my mother, was born on 17 December 1901, in her parents' home in a fashionable section of lower New York City. She decided to study medicine at an early age; in this she was inspired by her father, Willard Travell, MD, who was at first a general practitioner.
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Janet G. Travell, MD. Medical School: Cornell University Medical College, 1926. Specialty: Pain Medicine. Career Highlights: Leading pioneer in the study of referred pain and the discovery of trigger points. Honorary and Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine.
Janet G. Travell (1901-1997) was a distinguished member of the medical community, serving as Personal Physician to two United States Presidents: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (and the first woman to hold the post.)
Read an interview with famed doctor, and President Kennedy's personal physician, Dr. Janet Travell on understanding and treating myofascial pain.
Known as a guiding light in the diagnosis and treatment of mysofascial pain, Janet G. Travell was born in 1901 in New York City, the daughter of Willard Travell, a physician, and Janet Davidson Travell.
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Dr. Janet G. Travell (1901-97) served on the faculty of The George Washington University School of Medicine and University Hospital as Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine from 1961-70, Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine from 1970-88, and was made an Honorary Clinical Professor of Medicine in 1988.
