 He also served as president of the Boston Surgical Society, the New England Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, and the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.In the 1950s, Dr. Cannon also worked as a consultant for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and visited the Marshall Islands to study effects of radioactivity on the population from atomic tests.Bradford Cannon and his wife Ellen DeNormandie Cannon (died 2003) lived in Lincoln, Massachusetts.