Subject files, 1899-1953 (inclusive).

Harvard Medical School. Office of the Dean

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The Office of the Dean is responsible for the day-to-day operations and long-range planning for Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. This includes all faculty appointments, medical education, research enterprises, community relations, student issues, and relations with affiliated hospitals and other offices of Harvard University. The Dean is assisted in this executive role by a number of decanal officers, including the Dean for Academic and Clinical...

Burwell, C. Sidney (Charles Sidney), 1893-

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Burwell (Harvard, M.D., 1919) physiologist in cardiovascular diseases and teacher, was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1935 to 1949. From the description of Papers of Charles Sidney Burwell, 1926-1965 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281427973 Charles Sidney Burwell (1893-1967), M.D.,1919, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, was Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University (1928-1935), Dean of the Harvard Medical School (1935-1949), Rese...

Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...

Hale, Worth, 1876-1961.

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Harvard School of Dental Medicine

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The Harvard Dental School was founded in 1867 by the Harvard Corporation. Early deans of the school were Nathan Cooley Keep (1868-1872), Thomas Barnes Hitchcock (1872-1874), Thomas H. Chandler (1874-1895), Eugene H. Smith (1895-1924), and Leroy M. S. Miner (1924-1939). Professorships were created in dental pathology and therapeutics, operative dentistry, and mechanical dentistry. The faculty consisted of three dental professors and three others from the Harvard Medical School (professors of anat...

Harvard School of Public Health

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The Harvard School of Public Health began as a cooperative program between Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The School for Health Officers of Harvard University and M.I.T. opened in 1913 as the first formally organized school of public health in the U.S. The name of the school was changed to Harvard-M.I.T. School of Public Health in 1918, and courses in industrial hygiene were offered in that year. In 1922 the school was reorganized under the direction of Harvard whi...

Berry, George Packer

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Berry (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1925) was a bacteriologist whose research interests are in the fields of immunology and virology. As dean of the Harvard Medical School (1949-1965), professor of bacteriology at Harvard, and past president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), he has done much to shape the quality of medical education. He also unified the Harvard Medical School and its private teaching hospitals into one corporate organization, the Harvard Medical Center, and served a...

Friend, Dale G.

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Harvard Cancer Commission.

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Christian, Henry A. (Henry Asbury), 1876-1951

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Civil War corporal, 35th New York Infantry, Company A, 1861-1863. From the description of Document, 1863 June 5. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287268 Christian (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1900; Harvard, A.M. 1903) held the Hershey Chair of Theory and Practice of Physic and served as Dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1908 to 1912. He was also physician-in-chief at Carney Hospital from 1907 to 1912 and at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1910 to ...

Bradford, Edward H. (Edward Hickling), 1848-1926

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Lichty, Joseph S.

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Edsall, David Linn, 1869-1945

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Edsall (1869-1945) (University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1893) was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1918 to 1935 and dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from its beginnings in 1921 to 1935. Following graduation from medical school, he worked for four years in a hospital laboratory, then began teaching at University of Pennsylvania (1899-1911) and Washington University in St. Louis (1911-1912); he came to Harvard as the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine (1912-1923). His deanship, ...

Morison, Robert Swain

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Fitz, Reginald, 1885-

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Fitz (Harvard, M.D. 1909) was associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1922 to 1936; he also taught history of medicine during the last twenty years of his career. From 1947 to 1952 he served as assistant dean of the Faculty of Medicine and from 1935 to 1952 was a marshal of Harvard University. In 1936 Fitz was appointed professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, and he directed the Evans Memorial for Clinical Research and Preventive Medicine until 1...

Harvard Medical School.

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