Born in New York City in 1913, Edgar Patrick Mannix, Jr. completed his college education at Fordham in 1934. He entered the medical profession upon graduating from the Long Island College of Medicine in 1940. Dr. Mannix interned at Brooklyn hospital until 1942 when he joined the Army Medical Corps. He was discharged with the rank of captain in 1946 and returned to Brooklyn hospital as a resident in surgery. He relocated to the University of Michigan in 1948, where he practiced as a resident in surgery while completing a Master of Surgery degree. In 1952 he accepted a teaching position and directorship of thoracic surgery at the State University of New York College of Medicine. There Dr. Mannix remained until 1955 when he advanced to director of surgery at St. Francis Hospital at Roslyn, New York. He maintained this position along with obligations as attending surgeon at both Brooklyn Hospital and St. Johns Hospital. He retired from St. Francis in 1971. Throughout his long career in New York hospitals, Dr. Mannix conducted what is considered pioneering work in heart surgery, performing over 1,200 such procedures. He died at Escondido, California in 1989.
From the guide to the Edgar P. Mannix Papers, 1934-1988, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)
