J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:435-436
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: John Alexander (1891-1954)
Herbert Sloan, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
Received for publication June 9, 2004; accepted for publication June 16, 2004.
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John Alexander, the 17th president of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, was born in Philadelphia on February 24, 1891. He received his BS, MA, and MD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an outstanding student athlete, achieving multiple academic honors and serving as captain of the varsity crew. After an internship at the Pennsylvania Hospital, he enlisted with an American unit in the French Army transferring to the United States Army Medical Corps when the United States entered World War I. At the end of the war, he studied at the University of Lyon with Leon Berard, where he first became acquainted with the surgical treatment of tuberculosis, a disease that consumed much of his career, both as a patient and as an innovator and advocate of surgical treatment. During his lifetime, Dr Alexander was hospitalized multiple times for treatment of tuberculosis and its complications.
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After his return to the United States, he served a short period at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1920 joined the staff of the Department of Surgery . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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