J. Richard Lilly
J. Richard Lilly is an American physician from Baltimore, Maryland. He served as the 148th president of the Maryland State Medical Association and has been a board member of several leading medical organizations in Maryland.[1] He served in the Navy as a senior medical officer and worked on Project Mercury, the first attempt to put a man in space.[1][2]
Early life and education
J. Richard Lilly grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended City College high school, where he was a standout athlete.[3] He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.[4] To help finance his education, Lilly worked summers as a crane repairman's helper at Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore.[1] Lilly attended medical school at Temple University in Philadelphia and did his internship at Church Hospital in Baltimore.[5]
Career
Lilly was commissioned an ensign while in medical school.[1] While in the Navy, he practiced general medicine on Indian Head Naval Base. Rising to the rank of lieutenant, Lilly worked as a physician on Project Mercury, the nation's first effort to put a man in space.[1] His role was to study the physical effects of space travel on the astronauts.[6] U.S. Senator John Glenn Jr. and Rear Admiral Alan B. Shepard were among the astronauts with whom he worked.[1]
Lilly is best known as a family physician. He joined the practice of Dr. Fred Musser in Landover Hills, Maryland, in 1966, and four years later, opened his own office as a family practitioner in Prince George's County, Maryland.
One of Lilly's early career objectives was to establish family practice as a viable field in an increasingly specialized healthcare industry. He told a journalist in 1995 that his driving goal in the late 1960s and early 1970s was to elevate the status of family physicians to the level of specialist doctors.[3]
In the early 1970s, Lilly worked with physicians Aris T. Allen and Edward Kowalewski to establish the department of family practice at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.[3] He was a Clinical Assistant Professor there from 1970 to 1973 and served as a faculty member from 1974 to 1978.[5]
On July 2, 1972, Lilly was a featured guest on the television program The Patient's Dilemma, which aired on Baltimore's CBS affiliate WMAR.[7][8]
In the mid-1970s, Lilly founded the Prince George's County Hospital's department of family practice and family residency program.[3] The program trained new doctors to become general practitioners. He was also a founding partner of AMI Doctor's Community Hospital in Lanham, Maryland, and served as chief of staff from 1993 to 1985.[3]
Lilly was the personal physician of Maryland governor Parris N. Glendening.[6]
The family practice office that Lilly established in Hyattsville expanded to include locations in Riverdale and Bowie, Maryland.[9] It became one of the largest multi-specialty groups in Prince George's County.[1]
Organizations
Lilly has been a member of multiple physicians’ organizations. From 1995 to 1996, he was president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.[10]
Additional organizations and involvement include:
- Vice President, Maryland Academy of General Practice[11]
- Executive committee member, Prince George's General Hospital.[10]
- Executive committee member, AMI Doctor's Community Hospital[10]
- Member, board of trustees, Doctor's Community Hospital[10]
- President, Maryland Academy of Family Physicians[10]
- President, Prince George's County Medical Society
- President, Maryland Medical Society[12]
- Member, board of directors, CareFirst[12]
- Chairman, Maryland State Council on Cancer Control[13]
- Chairman, Med-Chi Insurance Agency[13]
Honors and awards
- 1995 - Governor's Citation, "In Recognition of One of Maryland Most Respected and Admired Members of the Medical Profession."[3]
- 1996 - Selected by The American Hospital Association and The American Medical Association as one of the "50 Most Positive Physicians in America."[5]
- 2007 - President's Award for contributions to Med-Chi.[14]
Personal life
Lilly is married to Elizabeth Ann Brown Lilly, M.D., a retired psychiatrist.[6] The couple have two sons,[15] John Richard Lilly II, an attorney and retired Naval officer,[16] and Donald Wellington Lilly, an interior designer and real estate agent.[17] He lived in Crofton, University Park, and Crownsville, Maryland.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "MedChi Archives: J. Richard Lilly". MedChi Archives. Retrieved 2026-03-13.
- ↑ "Newspapers.com Atlanta Journal".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Smith, Vivian (May 1995). "J. Richard Lilly, M.D.: 1995-1996 president, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland". Maryland Medical Journal (Baltimore, Md. : 1985). 44 (5): 359–362. PMID 7769979. Retrieved 2026-03-13.
- ↑ "Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland". The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 1 (16): 549–550. August 1831. doi:10.1097/00000441-183100160-00111 (inactive 7 April 2026). ISSN 0002-9629. PMC 10032830 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 37824971 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Maryland State Council on Cancer Control" (PDF). Maryland State Council on Cancer Control. Annual Report 2006.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Lloyd, Mary Ellen (4 June, 1995). "Local Man to Head Physician's Group". The Sunday Capital. pp. D1, D8. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Baltimore Sun". 1972-06-22. p. 158.
- ↑ WMAR-TV (Television Station: Baltimore, Md ) (1972-04-24), Patients Dilemma, University of Baltimore, retrieved 2026-03-13
- ↑ "J. Richard Lilly, MD ABFP and Associates, PC". doctorlilly.com. Archived from the original on 2025-03-16. Retrieved 2026-03-13.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Castelli, Jennifer (1995-07-20). "Medical Leader Makes Families His Business". The Prince George's Journal.
- ↑ "The News". 1971-06-14. p. 9.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "CareFirst Board Will Fight Changes". The Baltimore Sun. 2003-07-22. pp. A8.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Maryland State Council on Cancer Control" (PDF). Maryland State Council on Cancer Control Annual Report 2003.
- ↑ "MEDCHI HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING; SETS ADVOCACY PLATFORM FOR 2019" (PDF) (Press release). MedChi. 2019-11-26.
- ↑ "Obit for Dorothy Elizabeth Lilly". Baltimore Sun. 2007-05-03. pp. B7.
- ↑ McCord, Joel (2000-11-22). "Monitor Bypass Brings Big Fine". Baltimore Sun. pp. B1, B6.
- ↑ Green, Susan (1999-12-03). "Today's Luxury Bathrooms: Glamour Without Glitz". Palm Beach Daily News. p. 7.
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