Anderson, Marion C.

Marion C. Anderson was born on October 9, 1926 in Concordia, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas followed by Northwestern University Medical School in 1953. After graduation he remained a member of the faculty at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago for ten years. He also served as a resident in Surgery at the VA Research Hospital in Chicago 1955-56 and as a consultant from 1965-69. After leaving Chicago, Dr. Anderson was appointed president of the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. In 1977, he was named chief of Surgical Service at the Charleston Veterans Administration Hospital and a professor and vice chairman of the Dept. of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC.) Dr. Anderson also served as dean and chairman of the Department of Surgery at MUSC as well as associate dean for continuing medical education. He was active in the Association of American Medical College and Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education and established the South Carolina Medical Leaders Partnership Initiative. He was married to Sonia Bennett Anderson. He died on February 2, 2001.