Background
Pruitt, Basil Arthur was born on August 21, 1930 in Nyack, New York, United States. Son of Basil Arthur and Myrtle Flo (Knowles) Pruitt.
Pruitt, Basil Arthur was born on August 21, 1930 in Nyack, New York, United States. Son of Basil Arthur and Myrtle Flo (Knowles) Pruitt.
AB, Harvard University, 1952; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1952-1953; Doctor of Medicine, Tufts U., 1957.
Intern, Boston City Hospital, 1957-1958;
resident in surgery, Boston City Hospital, 1958-1959, 61-62;
commissioned captain, Medical Corps, United States Army, 1959;
advanced through grades to colonel, United States Army, 1972;
resident, Brooke General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1962-1964;
chief clinical division, Institute Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1965-1967;
chief professional services, 12th Evacuation Hospital, Vietnam, 1967-1968;
commander, director, United States Army Institute Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, 1968-1995;
retired, United States Army Institute Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, 1995;
professor general surgery, University Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, since 1996;
professor surgery, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1978. Member surgery, anaesthesiology and trauma study section National Institutes of Health, 1978-1982. Member Shriners Burns Advisory Board, 1985-1992.
Member Shriners Research Advisory Board, since 1996. Member Shriners Medical Advisory Board, 1992-1995. Member merit review board for surgery, VA, 1990-1993.
Fellow American College of Surgeons (governor 1973-1979, pre and postoperative care committee 1969-1979, vice chairman 1973-1975, commission on trauma 1974-1984, international relations committee 1983-1993, chairman 1987-1989), American College Critical Care Medicine. Member American Burn Association (president 1975-1976), International Society Burn Injuries (national representative 1974-1982,co-chairman disaster planning committee 1982-1986, president-elect 1990-1994, president 1994-1998), Smoke Burn and Fire Association (advisory county), American Trauma Society (director, president Texas division 1974-1975, secretary 1986-1988, 2d vice president 1988-1990, president-elect 1990-1992, president 1992-1994), Society University Surgeons, American Surgical Association (2d vice president 1980-1981), Texas Surgical Association, Western Surgical Association (district representative 1984-1988, president 1993-1994), Southern Surgical Association, Halsted Society (president 1985-1986), American Association Surgery Trauma (recorder 1976-1980, president 1982-1983), Surgical Biological Club III, Society International Surgery, Association Academy Surgery, Surgical Infection Society (recorder 1980-1984, president 1985-1986), International Surgical Group, North American Burn Society (president 1993-1994), Shock Society (clinical counselor 1995-1998), Surgeons' Travel Club.
Married Mary Sessions Gibson, September 4, 1954. Children: Scott Knowles, Laura Sessions, Jeffrey Hamilton.