William Anderson Spickard Jr. Biographical File
Abstract
Includes photographs, letters, CV, newspaper articles.
Dates
- Creation: 1931-2021
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Biographical / Historical
Dr. Spickard linked his decision to become a physician to a family tragedy: In 1950 when he was an 18-year-old freshman at Vanderbilt University, his father was killed by a lightning strike on a Nashville golf course. During his junior year at Vanderbilt, on a walk across campus, in front of Furman Hall, the thought came to his mind, “I’ve got to be a doctor.”
He attended VUSM, graduating in 1957, and spent almost his entire career at Vanderbilt.
Dr. Spickard began his career as a resident in general internal medicine at Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins. He was appointed a clinical associate at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, and then returned to Vanderbilt in 1962 to complete his residency training as the first Hugh J. Morgan Resident in Medicine. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1963.
He died in Nashville, December 8, 2021.
Source: https://news.vumc.org/2021/12/08/pioneer-of-substance-abuse-prevention-and-treatment-anderson-spickard-jr-md-mourned/
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Language of Materials
English
Topical
- Title
- William Anderson Spickard Jr. Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-04-30
- 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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