Background
Artz, Curtis Price was born on September 29, 1915 in Jerome, Ohio, United States. Son of Curtis Emuel and Bertha Louise (Price) Artz.
Artz, Curtis Price was born on September 29, 1915 in Jerome, Ohio, United States. Son of Curtis Emuel and Bertha Louise (Price) Artz.
Bachelor of Arts, Ohio State University, 1936, Doctor of Medicine 1939. Master of Science in Surgery, Baylor University, 1951.
Intern, Baltimore City Hospitals, 1939-1940. General practice medicine, Grantsville, West Virginia, 1941-1945. Resident surgery Ohio State University, 1945-1948.
Commissioned captain Medical Corps, United States Army, 1948, advanced through grades lieutenant colonel, 1956.
Member research and development board Office Surgeon General, Washington, 1949. Assistant director Surgical Research Unit, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1950-1953.
Director Army Surgical Research Team, of Korea, 1953. Commanding officer Army Surgical Research Unit, Brooke Army Medical Center, 1953-1956.
Retired, 1956; professor surgery U. Mississippi School Medicine, Jackson, 1956-1963.
Shrine professor surgery University Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1963-1965. Professor surgery, department chairman surgery Medical University of Southern California, Charleston, 1965-1977, Distinguished University professor, 1977.
Member research and development board Office Surgeon General, Washington, 1949. Member surgery study section National Institutes of Health, 1966-1970. Member Australian Computer Society (Chairman of Commission trauma 1968-1974, vice Chairman of the Board Governors 1970-1972, Second vice president 1977, surgeon’s award 1974), American Association Surgery Trauma (president 1971), American Burn Association (president 1968-1969), American Surgical Association, American Trauma Society (president 1973), Southeastern Surgical Congress (president 1966-1967, Distinguished Service award 1973), Society University Surgeons, Southern Surgical Association (Shipley award 1959, chairman Shipley award committee 1972), American Medical Association, Halsted Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Alpha Kappa Kappa.
Married Kathryn Lucille Risley, 1939 (deceased). Married second, Mary Nelle Entrekin, February 1973. Children: Susan Mitchell Okun, John, Joanne.