The 31st Annual
Rollin A. Daniel, Jr., M.D. Lecture
Featured Speaker
G. Alexander Patterson, M.D.
Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
"History, Current Status and Future
of Lung Transplantation"
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Friday, November 13, 2009
7:00 a.m.
208 Light Hall
Rollin A. Daniel, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Rollin A. Daniel, Jr. was one of those rare individuals to achieve excellence in all three roles of academic medicine - as an educator, an investigator, and a practitioner. He influenced the careers of legions of medical students, house officers, and colleagues in Nashville and throughout the United States. He exemplified the best in American medicine. For that reason and for the reverence in which he was held by his colleagues, a lecture series was established in his name at his retirement in 1977.
Dr. Daniel graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1930, and from the Vanderbilt School of Medicine in 1933. His training in surgery was obtained first at the Vanderbilt University Hospital and then at Washington University's Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Subsequently, he returned to Vanderbilt to join the fulltime faculty and became a full professor of surgery. He served as Chief of the Thoracic Surgery Service at Vanderbilt. From 1970 until his retirement, Dr. Daniel served as Chief of Surgery at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville.
Dr. Daniel was certified by the American Board of Surgery, and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, where he served as a member of the Founders Group, Chairman of the Credentials Committee, and Secretary. He also served as Chairman, American Board of Thoracic Surgery (1965-1967). He was a member of the Society of University Surgeons, and served as President of both the Nashville Academy of Medicine and the Nashville Surgical Society. "He was the father of thoracic surgery in the Nashville surgical community." (Scott Jr HW, South Med J. 75:1439-52, 1982).
Dr. Daniel authored 56 publications. His first paper, co-authored with Drs. Alfred Blalock and Sam Upchurch, appeared in 1933 in the journal Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. His publications cover a wide range of surgical problems, but from 1944 they reflect his concentration of interest in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. His papers range from the descriptions of his studies on the regeneration of defects of the trachea and bronchi and the experimental production of 'wet lung' to the surgical management of a wide variety of thoracic and cardiovascular disorders.
Dr. Daniel was always considered a 'doctor's doctor.' He was a warm, sensitive, and caring person, and those qualities helped in making him an outstanding physician.
Rollin A. Daniel, Jr. Lecturers
1977, G. Rainey Williams, MD
1978, Frank C. Spencer, MD
1979, John A. Walhausen, MD
1980, Herbert Sloan, MD
1981, Paul A. Ebert, MD
1982, Hassan Najafi, MD
1983, R. Robinson Baker, MD
1984, Mark B. Orringer, MD
1985, E. Stanley Crawford, MD
1986, W. Gerald Austin, MD
1987, Henry T. Bahnson, MD
1988, David C. Sabiston, Jr., MD
1989, George J. Magovern, MD
1990, Aldo R. Castaneda, MD
1991, Nicholas T. Kouchoudos, MD
1992, L. Penfield Faber, MD
1994, Johns L. Ochsner, MD
1995, Edward L. Bove, MD
1996, John W. Hammon, Jr., MD
1997, Ronald C. Elkins, Jr, MD
1998, D. Craig Miller, MD
1999, David J. Sugarbaker, MD
2001, Ray Chu-Jeng Chiu, MD
2002, Fred Crawford, MD
2003, Joel D. Cooper, MD
2004, Marc R. DeLeval, MD, FRCS
2005, Lawrence H. Cohn, MD
2006, Carolyn E. Reed, MD
2007, Bruce W. Lytle, MD
2008, Thomas L. Spray, M.D.
