Eugene W. Fowinkle Biographical File
Abstract
Includes photographs, letters, CV, newspaper articles, negatives
Dates
- Creation: 1934-2011
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Biographical / Historical
Dr. Eugene Wesley Fowinkle earned his medical degree at the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine, interned with the City of Memphis hospitals and was a resident in Neurosurgery at Baptist Hospital, Memphis. He earned a Master's of Public Health degree at the University of Michigan in 1962. He began his career in public health as Director of Communicable Disease Control at the Memphis-Shelby County Health Dept. and became Director of that department in 1966.
In 1969 Dr. Fowinkle was appointed Tennessee Commissioner of Public Health, serving as the state’s chief public health official under four governors: Buford Ellington, Winfield Dunn, Ray Blanton and Lamar Alexander. In 1983 he became Associate Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University, where he served until his retirement in April 1999. He died in Memphis on August 26, 2011.
Biography adapted from an obituary that appeared in the Memphis Commercial Appeal https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/commercialappeal/name/eugene-fowinkle-obituary?id=13854010
Full Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Eugene W. Fowinkle Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-03-05
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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