# Randolph Whitfield Jr.

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{{Infobox medical person
| name              = Randolph Whitfield Jr.
| education         =  [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia)
| profession        = Doctor
| field             = [Ophthalmology](/source/Ophthalmology)
}}

'''Randolph Whitfield Jr.''' (born 1938)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/repositories/2/resources/384 |title=Randolph Whitfield Papers|access-date=January 19, 2024|publisher=Georgia Tech|quote=Whitfield married Shirley Brown McPhaul on June 25, 1931. Together, they had three children: Clare Grantham Whitfield (b. 1936), Dr. Randolph Whitfield, Jr. (b. 1938), and Mary Croom Whitfield Coward (b. 1943). ... Randolph, Jr. is a well-known ophthalmologist in Kenya, working to promote health in African countries.}}</ref> is an American [ophthalmologist](/source/ophthalmologist). During his career, he conducted pioneering surveys that traced the spread of blindness in deprived areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.

==Life==
He received his medical and graduate degrees from [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia) in 1965 under a dual program.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/gpo/awards/whitfieldrandolph.cfm |title=Whitfield Randolph Scholarship |website=www.healthsystem.virginia.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512224428/http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/gpo/awards/whitfieldrandolph.cfm |archive-date=2008-05-12}}</ref>
He received his undergraduate degree from [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University).

At Nyeri Provincial Hospital near [Mount Kenya](/source/Mount_Kenya), he trained paramedics and clinical officers to combat eye diseases such as [glaucoma](/source/glaucoma) and [trachoma](/source/trachoma).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604115340/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,955197-2,00.html "Education: The Most Happy Fellows", ''Time'', J. MADELEINE NASH; Kenneth M. Pierce, Aug. 08, 1983]</ref>

He is the son of Randolph and Shirley Whitfield. He married Suzanne Sellars of [Atlanta, Georgia](/source/Atlanta%2C_Georgia)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.me.gatech.edu/alumni/whitfield_obit.shtml |title=The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering |accessdate=2010-02-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207014904/http://www.me.gatech.edu/alumni/whitfield_obit.shtml |archivedate=2010-02-07 }}</ref> and has two children: Eston Whitfield and Louisa Rendall. Both live and work in Kenya.  Whitfield's paternal grandfather, [James B. Whitfield](/source/James_B._Whitfield), was a state public servant in Florida for over 60 years, including a stint as a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1904 to 1943.

Whitfield's cousin, Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, was president of Florida State University, president of the ABA (American Bar Association) in 1991–1992, and started CEELI- http://apps.americanbar.org/rol/europe_and_eurasia/- which has been successful at converting communist and socialist countries into democracies through the development of judicial systems and access to courts.

==Awards==
* 1982 [MacArthur Fellows Program](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program)

==Works==
*[https://archive.today/20110726150934/http://archopht.highwire.org/cgi/content/summary/105/10/1438 "Ophthalmology in Kenya", ''Arch Ophthalmol''. 1987;105(10):1438-1441]
*{{cite book| title=Microbiology of the eye| editor=Deborah Locatcher-Khorazo| editor2=Beatrice Carrier Seegal| publisher=Mosby| year= 1972| isbn= 978-0-8016-3024-8| chapter=Ocular syphilis}}

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Category:University of Virginia School of Medicine alumni
Category:MacArthur Fellows
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