Background
Johnson, Hollis Eugene was born on April 11, 1893 in Weakley County Tennessee. Son of Hollis Eugene and Martha Reuben (Roach) Johnson.
Johnson, Hollis Eugene was born on April 11, 1893 in Weakley County Tennessee. Son of Hollis Eugene and Martha Reuben (Roach) Johnson.
Student, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1916. Doctor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 1921.
Assistant anatomy, assistant medical, assistant clinical medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1917-1955;
professor clin.medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1955-1958;
professor emeritus, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1958-1992;
intern, Davidson County Tuberculosis Hospital, 1921-1922;
resident physician, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, 1922-1923;
visiting physician, director chest clinic, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, 1926-1958. Consultant Baptist Hospital, St. Thomas Hospital. Staff Nashville General Hospital.
Consultant chest diseases Thayer General Veterans Administration Hospital. Past lecturer on tuberculosis Meharry Medical College. Introduced collapse therapy by pneumothorax, 1922, bronchography, 1927.
Board of directors Nashville chapter American Red Cross, Bill Wilkerson Hearing and Speech Center. Past chairman professional Executive Committee Tennessee division American Cancer Society. Chairman advanced.coun.
Civil Defense, Nashville-Davidson County. Board of trustees Belmont College. Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Chest Physicians (board regents.
Secretary-treasurer, president Southern chapter, national president 1961-1962). Member American Medical Association (past house delegations), Southern Tennessee Medical Association, Middle Tennessee Medical Association, Vanderbilt Medical Association, American Trudeau Society, American Association Thoracic Surgery, National Tuberculosis Association (past member, board directors), Tennessee Thoracic Society, Nashville Thoracic Society, Nashville-Davidson County Academy Medicine, Nashville Society Internists (past president), Nashville Chamber of Commerce, United States Chamber of Commerce, American Legion, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Kappa Kappa.
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Married Frances Settle, August 2, 1932. Children: Hollis, Eugene III, John Settle, Robert Marshall.