Bruce Millard Smith Biographical File

Bruce Millard Smith was born on July 26, 1945 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, he attended Waggoner Highschool where he excelled both academically and athletically. He attended Dartmouth College where he played both baseball and football, and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Dragon Society.

Upon graduating from Dartmouth, Bruce attended Harvard Medical School. He completed his surgical residency and training at Duke, which included a 2 year stint as a General Medical Officer in the Navy during the Vietnam War. In 1980, Bruce moved his family to Nashville to accept a position on the faculty of Vanderbilt University. He remained at Vanderbilt for several years until entering into private practice at (then) Baptist Hospital. In 1989, Bruce joined the Air Force practicing medicine and researching at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, CA. His time there included a post in England for a portion of the Gulf War, but was culminated by meeting and marrying Lisa Boyle, who was also a surgeon at Travis. He retired from the Air Force in 1993 with the rank of Lt. Col. After the Air Force, Bruce moved to Washington D.C. to become the Chief of Vascular Surgery at the Washington Hospital Center where he worked until his retirement in 2010.

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