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Dr Willis Cohoon Campbell

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Dr Willis Cohoon Campbell

Birth
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
Death
4 May 1941 (aged 60)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Dr. Willis C. Campbell was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1880 and received his medical education from the University of Virginia in 1904. After his internship, Dr. Campbell opened his medical practice in Memphis, specializing in general surgery, anesthesia, and pediatrics. He studied orthopaedics in London and Vienna and returned to Memphis in 1909 to open his orthopaedic practice.

The history of the Campbell Clinic is deeply seated in the accomplishments of Dr. Willis Cahoon Campbell. At the time Memphis was growing rapidly and orthopaedic surgery was evolving as a surgical specialty. These conditions provided him with the opportunity to do many things that were visionary. He established the Campbell Clinic and the Department of Orthopaedics for the University of Tennessee.

He aided in founding hospitals and clinics for private patients and patients who were indigent. His major contributions to the field of orthopaedics include the recruitment of outstanding associates who would follow and build on his high standards of performance, the establishment of an outstanding residency program, the publication of Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, and providing leadership for many orthopaedic surgeons.

It can be said without reservation that Campbell and the early staff members played an important role in the growth of orthopaedic surgery essentially from its infancy and into the second half of the century. The legacy of excellence that Campbell and all the members of the staff established has continued to be the hallmark of the Campbell Clinic.

http://www.uthsc.edu/ortho/introduction/history.php
Dr. Willis C. Campbell was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1880 and received his medical education from the University of Virginia in 1904. After his internship, Dr. Campbell opened his medical practice in Memphis, specializing in general surgery, anesthesia, and pediatrics. He studied orthopaedics in London and Vienna and returned to Memphis in 1909 to open his orthopaedic practice.

The history of the Campbell Clinic is deeply seated in the accomplishments of Dr. Willis Cahoon Campbell. At the time Memphis was growing rapidly and orthopaedic surgery was evolving as a surgical specialty. These conditions provided him with the opportunity to do many things that were visionary. He established the Campbell Clinic and the Department of Orthopaedics for the University of Tennessee.

He aided in founding hospitals and clinics for private patients and patients who were indigent. His major contributions to the field of orthopaedics include the recruitment of outstanding associates who would follow and build on his high standards of performance, the establishment of an outstanding residency program, the publication of Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, and providing leadership for many orthopaedic surgeons.

It can be said without reservation that Campbell and the early staff members played an important role in the growth of orthopaedic surgery essentially from its infancy and into the second half of the century. The legacy of excellence that Campbell and all the members of the staff established has continued to be the hallmark of the Campbell Clinic.

http://www.uthsc.edu/ortho/introduction/history.php


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