TY - JOUR T1 - Harry Robert Brashear Jr., MD 1921-2010 Y1 - 2010/08/18 N1 - 10.2106/JBJS.J.00674 JO - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery SP - 2029 EP - 2029 VL - 92 IS - 10 N2 - Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 12, 1921, Bob moved with his parents to Los Angeles, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his MD degree from the University of California, San Francisco. After an internship at Georgetown University Hospital, he served two years as a medical officer in the United States Army, stationed at Pratt General Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida and at Fort Myers, Virginia. He completed an orthopaedic residency and fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953 to join the Division of Orthopaedics, which had been established the year before with the completion of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Bob progressed rapidly through the academic ranks, becoming a full professor in 1967. SN - 0021-9355 M3 - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.J.00674 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.J.00674 ER -