Harvey W. Bender biographical file

 Collection
Identifier: EBL-0247

  • Staff Only

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

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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

Subjects

Digital Material

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

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

Repository Details

Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository

https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/specialcollections/history-of-medicine/
Contact:
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232

 

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