| In
June 1925, Tinsley R. Harrison arrived at the new Vanderbilt
Hospital to serve as the first Chief Resident in Medicine. A graduate
of Johns Hopkins, he was hired by Dr. G. Canby Robinson, first Dean
and architect of the new Vanderbilt Medical School and Hospital generously
financed by the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Robinson thought highly of Harrison and awarded him a one year travelling
fellowship in Europe before he assumed his duties as Chief Resident
in Medicine at Vanderbilt. |
Tinsley
Harrison stayed at Vanderbilt from 1925 until 1941. During this time,
his major focus was teaching, research, and experimental medicine. While
at Vanderbilt, he published many articles including 15 scientific articles
with his close friend Alfred Blalock, and published a book, Failure
of the Circulation in 1936. Tinsley Harrison left Vanderbilt in 1941
to chair the Department of Internal Medicine at Bowman Gray. He subsequently
chaired departments at Southwestern Medical College and the University
of Alabama Medical Center. He is best known for his text-book, Principles
of Internal Medicine, widely referred to as Harrisons. |
