William O. Whetsell Jr Biographical File

Whetsell, a native of South Carolina, graduated from Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1962 (B.S. degree) and from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, in 1966 with an M.D. degree and an M.S. degree in neurobiology. He pursued post-graduate training at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City with a post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience and residencies in clinical neurology, anatomic pathology and neuropathology. He served in the U.S. Navy (1967-1969) as Lt. Commander at the Naval Aerospace Medical Center in Pensacola, Florida.

In 1975 he became Assistant Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology) and Neurology at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and adjunct Assistant Professor at the Rockefeller University. In 1978, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Mt. Sinai. In 1979, he accepted a position as Professor of Pathology and Director of Neuropathology at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Memphis. In 1983, he became Professor of Pathology and Director of Neuropathology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Source: https://www.vumc.org/pmi/person/william-o-whetsell-jr-md