Background
Davis, Harry Louis was born on March 8, 1921 in Crab Orchard, Illinois, United States. Son of Lyman Erastus and Augusta Motsinger Davis.
Davis, Harry Louis was born on March 8, 1921 in Crab Orchard, Illinois, United States. Son of Lyman Erastus and Augusta Motsinger Davis.
Bachelor of Education, Southern Illinois University, 1943. Bachelor of Science, Southern Illinois University, 1946. Doctor of Medicine, University Illinois College Medicine, Chicago, 1950.
Master of Science, University Minnesota, 1955.
Intern United States Naval Hospital, San Diego, 1950—1951. Resident Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1952—1955. Assistant chief pulmonary disease section Baylor University, 1957—1958.
Associate director cardiopulmonary laboratory Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, 1958—1964. With University Tennessee, since 1964, chief division pulmonary medicine, 1971—1983, professor medicine, since 1971. Director training in internal medicine St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis, 1968—1971, medical director respiratory therapy department, since 1968.
With United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946.
Board directors Tennessee chapter American Lung Association. Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, Society Medical Consultant to Armed Forces, American Thoracic Society, American College Chest Physicians, Sigma Xi.
Married Edna Muriel McReynolds, June 25, 1949. Children: Randall Lyman, Harry Craig.