Rene Cailliet


Rene Cailliet, M.D., was an American physician of French ancestry best known for a very popular series of books on musculoskeletal medicine.

Personal life

Rene Cailliet was born in Philadelphia in June 10, 1917. He was the son of Lucien Cailliet, the French born American composer, conductor, arranger, clarinetist, and creator of music for films. After graduation from Medical School at the University of Southern California in 1943, he served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. After the war he was one of the pioneering physicians who developed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as a specialization.

Career

In 1953 he was one of the founding partners of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and practiced in the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles and West Los Angeles Medical Centers.

Retirement

After his retirement in 1974, he served as a chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Southern California. He was in private practice at Santa Monica Hospital for several years and was an emeritus professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA at the time of his death.
Cailliet resided near Los Angeles, California.

Selected works