Browse Items (1764 total)

Photographic portrait of Theodore R. Austin. Theodore Roe Austin grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi, the son of a general practitioner. He came to Vanderbilt University in 1925, received the BA in 1929, and his MD in 1932. From Vanderbilt he went to…

Photographic portrait of Randolph Batson. Oscar Randolph Batson was born in 1916 in Jackson, Mississippi. He graduated from Vanderbilt in 1938 with a Bachelor's degree. While an undergraduate, he was elected president of the student body and…

Photographic portrait of Stanley Cohen. Dr. Stanley Cohen was born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Brooklyn College (B.A. 1943), Oberlin College (M.A. 1945), and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1948). Dr. Cohen joined the faculty of…

Dr. Ernest Goodpasture (1886-1960) was a Vanderbilt pathologist, best known for his method of growing uncontaminated viruses in chick embryos. During his early years at Vanderbilt, Dr. Goodpasture and his associates carried out studies that laid the…

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,…

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

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,…

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 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…

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…