TY  - JOUR
T1  - CHARLES H. HERNDON, M.D. 1915–1997
Y1  - 1998/02/01
N1  - 
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 303
EP  - 303
VL  - 80
IS  - 2
N2  - 
    Born in 1915 in Dublin, Texas, Charlie Herndon received his undergraduate education at the University of Texas and earned his M.D. degree from Harvard University in 1940. After having completed his surgical internship at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, he entered the United States Army in 1941 as a First Lieutenant and volunteered to serve at the American Hospital in Oxford, England, under the direction of Philip D. Wilson, Sr., M.D. He subsequently served in the Third and Twenty-third Station Hospitals and in the Second General Hospital throughout the entire European campaign; he was discharged with the rank of Major in January 1946. He began his orthopaedic residency at The Hospital for Special Surgery, then a small red-brick building on 42nd Street in New York City. On completion of his residency, in 1947, he returned to the University Hospitals of Case Western Reserve University Hospital in Cleveland to become its first full-time orthopaedic surgeon. He established the first full-time Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at that institution in 1953; the division became a full department in 1978. In relatively few years, his stewardship had made possible the development of a faculty and a resident program that today are regarded as among the finest in the nation.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ER  -