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Photographic portrait of John C. Burch. John Christopher Burch, eldest son of Dr. Lucius E. Burch and Sarah Polk (Cooper) Burch, was born on July 21, 1900, in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University from 1917-1919 and then entered the…

In 1925, Dr. Brooks accepted the position of Chairman of the Vanderbilt University Department of Surgery and immediately devoted himself to the building of a strong department of surgery. He organized a strong laboratory of surgical pathology using…

Amos Christie (1902-1986) was a pediatrician, child health advocate, professor, and administrator at Vanderbilt University Medical School. Dr. Christie is best known for his research in histoplasmosis, known as the "Vanderbilt disease," but he also…

Dr. Allan D. Bass (1910-2005) was a scientist, an educator, and an administrator; he pioneered pharmacological research on skin sterilizing agents, sulfonamides, hormones, adrenal corticosteroids, anthelmintics and chemical transmitters. At…

Photographic portrait of Richard Alexander Barr. Richard A. Barr graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1892 and received the MD from Vanderbilt in 1894. After graduation he practiced as a surgeon in Nashville with an office in the Eve Building. He…

Photographic portrait of Joseph H. Akeroyd. Joseph H. Akeroyd was born in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1909. He received his B.S. from the University of Michigan and his M.S. from Ohio State University. From 1932-35 he worked as a research chemist in…

Roy C. Avery was born in 1885 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from Connecticut State College, B.S., Massachusetts State College, M.S., and received the Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1928. Dr. Avery taught at Vanderbilt Medical School from…

Photographic portrait of George S. Allen. Dr. George S. Allen graduated from Wesleyan University and from Washington University School of Medicine. He served an internship at Duke University and completed his training at the University of Minnesota,…

J. Lionel Alloway was a resident in medicine from 1928-1930.

Eugene Fowinkle, M.D., M.P.H., joined the VUMC administration in 1983 as Associate Vice-Chancellor for Medical Affairs. Before this he served as Tennessee's Commissioner of Public Health for three decades. During his years at Vanderbilt, 1983-1999,…