Lorrin Andrews Shepard (March 24, 1890 – July 16, 1983) was an American medical missionary who served as the chief physician at the American Hospital (Istanbul) from 1927 to 1957.[1]
Born in Antep, Ottoman Empire, he was the son of Fred D. Shepard, a surgeon at Antep American Hospital, and Fanny Andrews Shepard, a physician who worked as a nurse and founded a vocational workshop due to local prohibitions on female physicians.[2]
Shepard completed his education in the United States, attending Yale University for his undergraduate studies and Columbia University for medical school.[2] Following a surgical residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York, he succeeded his late father as chief physician at the American Hospital in Istanbul in 1927.[2] During his tenure, he oversaw the planning and construction of the hospital's Nişantaşı building in 1939 and the Admiral Bristol Nursing School in 1949.[2]
After retiring in 1957, Shepard returned to the United States where he directed the Yale University Foreign Students Centre and managed the cataloging of the university's Ottoman Manuscripts Collection.[2] He died in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1983.[2]