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The Harwell Wilson Award for Surgical Excellence Dr. Harwell Wilson, born in Lincoln, Alabama on May 23, 1908, recieved his B.A. and M.D. from Vanderbilt. He worked with Dr. Alfred Blalock on shock Therapy. At the begining of World War II he volunteered for service in the 300th General Hospital Unit, the Vanderbilt Unit. In 1948 he became Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of Surgery at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, a position he held for 26 years. In appreciation for Vanderbilt’s contribution to his education Dr. Wilson instituted the Wilson Award to encourage excellence in surgery by recognizing the resident judged out-standing in dedication to patient care, research, and teaching. Recipients of the Harwell Wilson Award for Excellence as the Chief Surgical Resident Who Epitomizes The Ideals of Dedication to Patient Care, Research and Teaching In the Vanderbilt University Integrated Hospitals: 1978 John Lewis Skudlarick 1979 William Easton Walker 1980 John Townsend Matthews 1981 George Waterhouse & Michael Ray Petracek 1982 John Willis Lea & Patrick Wallace Meacham 1983 Not awarded 1984 Vaughn Alden Starnes 1985 James Michael Whiteneck 1986 Charles Buford Huddleston 1987 Edward Burton Gerhardt 1988 William Wakefield Tipton 1989 Todd Alan Shuman 1990 Thomas Carles Naslund 1991 William C. Chapman & Hrayr K. Shahinian 1992 Steven Jeffery Hoff 1993 Ibrahim A. Melki & Lisa C. Nelson-Robinson 1994 Timothy L. Sell 1995 C. Craig Elkins 1996 James G. Drougas 1997 Yolanda Becker 1998 Benjamin Peeler 1999 Ann Bradley 2000 Scott Seidel 2001 Alan J. Herline

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