Edward Franklin Bland

Edward Franklin Bland (born January 24, 1901 in West Point , Virginia , † September 27, 1992 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American cardiologist .

Life

Edward Bland was the son of an established Virginia family . After studying at the University of Virginia, he received his medical degree there. In 1927 he moved to Massachusetts General Hospital , where he trained as a specialist in heart disease. In 1939 he became a lecturer in medicine at Harvard University . During World War II, he served as Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Medical Corps in North Africa and Italy.

Returned to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1949, he succeeded Paul Dudley White , founder of the department, as head of the cardiology department. Bland headed it until 1964. In 1965 he received the status of full clinical professor at Harvard University and retired in 1967, but continued regular patient care until 1986. When he died in 1992, he left behind his wife Caroline, b. Thayer, a daughter (Frances), a son (Robert) and six grandchildren.

plant

While at the University of Virginia , Edward Bland and his colleague T. Duckett Jones (1899–1954) carried out extensive studies on rheumatic fever . The two followed the long-term course of the disease over ten and 20 years in 1000 patients. The results became a standard diagnostic tool for all cardiologists as Jones' diagnostic criteria. Together with his colleagues Paul Dudley White and Joseph Garland , he is the namesake of the Bland-White-Garland syndrome .

Web links

• Obituary in the New York Times

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edward Franklin Bland , US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed July 20, 2016