Walter Eugene Garrey Biographical File
Abstract
Biographical file includes photographs, obituaries, academic article, and other biographical information.
Dates
- Creation: 1945 - 1951
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Historical or Biographical Note
Walter Eugene Garrey, M.D., Ph.D., was born in Reedsville, Wisconsin, in 1874. He earned his B.S. from Lawrence College in 1894 and his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Chicago in 1900. He later earned his M.D. from Rush Medical College in 1909. Dr. Garrey taught at Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, Washington University, and Tulane University before he was asked by G. Canby Robinson to chair the Department of Physiology at the reorganized medical school at Vanderbilt in 1925. He served in that capacity until becoming Professor Emeritus of Physiology in 1944. He continued to conduct research at Vanderbilt until his death in 1951.
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Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Walter Eugene Garrey (1874-1951) biographical file
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by EBL Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2010-04-30
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is inEnglish.
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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