Edward Franklin Bland

Background

Bland, Edward Franklin was born on January 24, 1901 in West Point, Virginia, United States. Son of James Edward and Mary L. (Bowden) Bland.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Virginia, 1923; Doctor of Medicine, University Virginia, 1927; research fellow, University College Hospital, London, 1930-1931.

Career

Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1927-1929; resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1929-1930; chief cardiac unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1949-1964. Consultant visiting physician, 1960-1986, private practice specializing in cardiology, Boston, 1932-1986. Senior visiting physician House of Good Samaritan, Children's Medical Center, 1962-1986.

Member consultant staff W. Roxbury, VA, Winchester, Malden, Brockton, Framingham, Gloucester hospitals. Associate clinical professor medicine Harvard Medical School, 1954-1964, clinical professor medicine, 1964-1967, clinical professor medicine emeritus, from 1967. Retired 1986; civilian consultant to surgeon general United States Army, 1946-1950.

Achievements

• Edward Franklin Bland has been listed as a noteworthy Physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member training review committee National Heart Institute, 1965-1992. Served to lieutenant colonel, Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1942-1945, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. Member American Society Clinical Investigation, American Clinical and Climatological Association, Association American Physicians, New England Cardiovascular Society (past president), American Heart Association (past director, Paul D. White award 1975), Massachusetts Heart Association (past president) Clubs: Aesculapian (Boston).

Brookline Country (Massachusetts).

Connections

Son of James Edward and Mary L. (Bowden) B. M. Frances Poinier, September 7, 1935 (deceased). Children: Frances B. Youngblood, James Edward (deceased), Robert Poinier.

M. Caroline B. Thayer, December 31, 1984.

Father:

James Edward Bland

Mother:

Mary L. (Bowden) Bland

Spouse:

Frances Poinier

Spouse:

Caroline B. Thayer

child:

Robert Poinier Bland

child:

James Edward Bland (deceased)

child:

Frances B. Youngblood Bland