Mahlon Johnson Biographical File
Abstract
Includes photograph, newsppaer articles, book.
Dates
- Creation: 1954
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Biographical / Historical
Dr. Mahlon D. Johnson is a pathologist who received his medical degree from University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. During his tenure with Vanderbilt as an associate professor of Pathology, on Sep 14, 1992 he was infected with the HIV virus during an autopsy on an AIDS - infected corpse. Dr. Johnson began an aggressive drug therapy regimen using a combination of AIDS medications. As a result, the virus is undetectable in his bloodstream but he says he is not cured yet. As on 2024, practicing in Rochester, New York and is affiliated with Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester.
Full Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Mahlon Johnson Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-03-27
- 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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