Harvey W. Bender biographical file
Abstract
Biographical file includes a curriculum vitae from 1999. This file also includes many photographs of Dr. Bender and other prominent surgeons. Included are reprints and several newspaper clippings about Dr. Bender, and a program from a Symposium Weekend held in his honor at Vanderbilt in September 1996.
Dates
- 1971 - 2005
Notes about Access to this Collection
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Reproduction Rights
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Historical or Biographical Note
Dr. Bender received his M.D. from Baylor University College of Medicine in 1959. After his residency at Johns Hopkins and a Fellowship at the National Heart Institue he returned to Hopkins as faculty. He came to Vanderbilt in 1971 as Professor of Surgery, Chair of the Dept. of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery. In 1996, in honor of his 25 years at Vanderbilt, a symposium was held in his honor. Dr. Bender was elected President of the American College of Surgeons in 1999.
Extent
0.3 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Harvey W. Bender biographical file
- Author
- Processed by EBL Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2005-07-27
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is inEnglish.
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
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