Photographic portrait of Arthur L. Brooks. Arthur L. Brooks was born in 1924 in Tennessee. A highly respected orthopaedic surgeon and teacher, Brooks graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1952, completed his orthopaedic residency here in 1958,…

Dr. Perry Bromberg was a professor of clinical urology at Vanderbilt University. He belonged to many medical and surgical societies. He was president of the Nashville Academy of Medicine and the Davidson County Medical Society. He died of coronary…

Photographic portrait of Isaac Alexander Bigger. Dr. Bigger was a surgeon who earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1919. He eventually became Associate Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt, where he remained until 1930, when he…

Photographic portrait of Charles S. Briggs. Dr. Charles Briggs graduated from the University of Nashville's medical department in 1875. He then left Nashville for Philadelphia to study surgery with Dr. S.W. Gross, returning in 1877. Dr. Briggs then…

Photograph of an oil portrait of William Thompson Briggs. Dr. Briggs graduated in medicine from Transylvania University in 1849. After moving to Nashville in 1851 to become demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Nashville, he became a partner…

Dr. Edmund W. Benz graduated from Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine in 1940. He received the Ben Witt Key Annual Award in 1940. Dr. Benz was a successful surgeon in Nashville and a member of the clinical faculty at Vanderbilt Medical School.…

Dr. William Shannon Stoney received his B.S. from the University of the South in 1950 and his M.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1954. After completing his surgical residency at Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1954-1962, he spent a year as a Senior…

In 1925, Dr. Brooks accepted the position of Chairman of the Vanderbilt University Department of Surgery and immediately devoted himself to the building of a strong department of surgery. He organized a strong laboratory of surgical pathology using…

Photographic portrait of Richard Alexander Barr. Richard A. Barr graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1892 and received the MD from Vanderbilt in 1894. After graduation he practiced as a surgeon in Nashville with an office in the Eve Building. He…

Photographic portrait of Benton Adkins. Professor of Surgery and Cell and Developmental Biology, Emeritus, VUSM. Born in Clarksville, TN, Dr. Adkins graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1958, and joined the faculty in 1966. He…