Photographic portrait of Ben V. Branscomb. Ben V. Branscomb, M.D., attended Duke University School of Medicine from 1944-47 and interned at the University of Chicago Clinics from 1947-48. He conducted his residency at Vanderbilt University as…

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…

Photographic portrait of Allan D. Bass. "Professor Allan D. Bass (1910-2005) was a scientist, an educator, and an administrator; he pioneered pharmacological research on skin sterilizing agents, sulfonamides, hormones, adrenal corticosteroids,…

J. Lionel Alloway was a resident in medicine from 1928-1930.For more information please see the Finding Aid for J. Lionel Alloway.

Photographic portrait of Randolph Batson. Oscar Randolph Batson was born in 1916 in Jackson, Mississippi. He graduated from Vanderbilt in 1938 with a Bachelor's degree. While an undergraduate, he was elected president of the student body and…

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…

W. David Strayhorn, Sr. (1904-1981) was a physician, cardiologist, and teacher. He conducted research in heart disease and pregnancy. He was the first Chief of the Cardiovascular Disease Clinic at Vanderbilt Hospital in 1951. For more information…

John L. Shapiro (1915-1983) was a pathologist and professor. He was a successor to Dr. Ernest W. Goodpasture as chairman of the Department of Pathology at Vanderbilt, and he helped establish one of the first diagnostic cytopathology laboratories in…

Sarah H. Sell (1913-2012) was a pediatrician, author, and professor. She is an authority on immunization and is a researcher on infectious diseases of children. Dr. Sell devoted much of her professional career to the development of a vaccine to…