The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board
THE ARMED FORCES
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL BOARD
Its First Fifty Years
by
Theodore E. Woodward, M.D.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board
1. History. 2. Biological Research.
(eds.) Zajtchuk, R., Jenkins, D. P., Bellamy, R. F., Ingram,V. M., and Quick, C. M.
I. Woodward, Theodore E.
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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 the Health Sciences
Managing Editor
Donald P. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Director, Center of Excellence
Associate Professor of Surgery, Georgetown University
Visiting Associate Professor o f Anatomy,
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Associate EditorColonel Ronald F. Bellamy, MC, USA
Thoracic Surgery Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Associate Professor of Military Medicine and Surgery,
Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesSenior Editor
Virginia M. Ingram
TMM Publications, Center of Excellence
American Registry of Pathology
EditorColleen 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 ARMED FORCES EPIDEMIOLOGICAL BOARD
The Coat of Arms
1818
Medical Department of the Army
A 1976 etching by Vassil Ekimov of an
original color print as it appeared in
The Military Surgeon, Vol. XLI,No. 2, 1917
