Its First Fifty Years
by
Theodore E. Woodward, M.D.
Contents
Foreword by the Surgeon General of the United States Army
The Founders and Presidents of the Board
Section 1 THE COMMISSION SYSTEM 1940-1972
II The Transition to the Army Epidemiological Board
III The Postwar Planning for, and the Reorganization of, the Army Epidemiological Board
IV The Army Epidemiological Board is Reorganized as the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board
Section 2 THE AD HOC COMMITTEE SYSTEM 1973-1990
I The Decade of the 1970s: Reassessment and Reorganization after the Commission System was Abolished
III The End of the Decade and the Golden Anniversary Celebration
Administrators of the Board
Awards to Board Members
Preventive Medicine Officers
Commandants of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Members of the Commissions
A publication of the
Center of Excellence in Military Medical Research and Education
Office of the Surgeon General and Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Department of the Army, United States of America
Editor in Chief
Colonel Russ Zajtchuk, MC, USA
Deputy Commander
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Managing Editor
Donald P. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Director, Center of Excellence
Associate Professor of Surgery, Georgetown University
Visiting Associate Professor of Anatomy,
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Associate Editor
Colonel Ronald F. Bellamy, MC, USA
Thoracic Surgery Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Associate Professor of Military Medicine and Surgery,
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Senior Editor
Virginia M. Ingram
TMM Publications, Center of Excellence
American Registry of Pathology
Editor
Colleen Mathews Quick
TMM Publications, Center of Excellence
Dedicated, with homage and grateful appreciation,
to the Founders, the many capable and inspired Board and
Commission members, and the military scientists who
made the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board Possible
The Coat of Arms
1818
Medical Department of the Army
A 1976 etching by Vassil Ekimov of an
original color print that appeared in
The Military Surgeon, Vol XLI, No 2, 1917
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The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board
1. History. 2. Biological Research
(eds) Zajtchuk, R., Jenkins, D.P., Belleamy, R.F., Ingram, V.M., and Quick, C.M.
I. Woodward, Theodore E.
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