educator cardiovascular internist
B. Columbia, South Carolina., December 11, 1926;son Henry Howard and Ada Crosland (Sawyer) C. Bachelor of Arts, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1946.
Doctor of Medicine Meharry Medical College, Nashville, 1949. Master of Sciences, University Pennsylvania, 1972.
Diplomate National Board Medical Examiners, American Board Internal Medicine.
Research onstroke and hypertension.
Member of advisory board Hypertension Detection and Followup Program, Philadelphia, since 1974. Trustee American Foundation Negro Affairs, since 1969, Rockerfeller University, 1992. Served to captain United States Air Force, 1954-1956.
Fellow Philadelphia College Physicians (council), American College Chest Physicians.
Member American College of Physicians (master), American Heart Association (chairman, director, past national president), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Jean Marie Wilder, December 2, 1951. Children: Lisa Marie Cooper Hudgins, Edward Sawyer Junior.
