IHPBA Kenneth Warren Foundation

Kenneth Warren Tribute

Dr. Kenneth Wayne Warren
July 16th, 1911 - November 15th, 2001

"I have concentrated my energy and my efforts toward my primary professional goal and responsibility: to get sick people well, and when that has proven impossible, to add to their comfort, their continued sense of belonging and the knowledge that we would travel this road together."

Doctor Kenneth Wayne Warren, internationally recognized as an authority on diseases of the pancreas, liver and biliary tract died at age 90, November 15th, 2001 at the Boston New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts, in the United States after an extended illness with prostate cancer. Thus ended an illustrious surgical career that spanned over 60 years.

Kenneth Warren was the son of Dr. George and Judy Warren whose earliest ancestors arrived at the Jamestown, Virginia colony around 1625 on American soil. After the Revolutionary War, they moved west to South Carolina and then settled in Cairo, Tennessee by 1796. By 1830, they were in Wayne County, Illinois where his father was born in 1877.

Kenneth Warren was born July 16th, 1911 in Cartersville, Georgia and spent a few of his early years in that North Georgia city. Later, the family moved to Perry, Florida and Kenneth received his elementary and high school education in that area. In 1930 he enrolled in Harvard College and graduated in 1934. He obtained his M.D. degree from Temple University School of Medicine in 1938. He then entered and completed a six-year program of surgical residency training at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan under Dr. Roy D. McClure. It was there that Dr. Warren first showed a profound interest in surgical diseases of the pancreas, bile ducts, and liver; areas in which he would later make outstanding contributions.

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