Aycock, W. Lloyd.

William Lloyd Aycock (WLA), 1889-1951, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, specialized in epidemiology and communicable diseases research, including polio and leprosy.

WLA was born in Georgia in 1889, and received the MD from the University of Louisville in 1914. He became Instructor of Bacteriology at the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital and diagnostician at the New York State Health Department prior to World War I. From 1917-1919, he served as a first lieutenant in the US Army, directing a base hospital laboratory, and as epidemiologist at the Central Laboratories of the American Expeditionary Forces. WLA directed the research laboratory of the Vermont State Board of Health from 1919 to 1931. He joined the Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene at Harvard Medical School in 1923 and began work in the same field at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1926. In 1928, he became an assistant professor in both departments.

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