Isaac Alexander Bigger

Background

Bigger, Isaac Alexander was born on June 25, 1893 in Bethel, South Carolina, United States. Son of Isaac Alexander and Mary Neel (Johnston) Bigger.

Education

Student Erskine College, Due West, South Carolina., 1909-1910, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1910-1911, 1912-1913, University of Virginia, 1919, Doctor of Medicine 1919.

Career

Intern University of Virginia, 1919-1921, resident surgery, 1921-1922. Instructor surgery University of Virginia, 1922-1923, assistant professor surgery, 1923-1927. Associate professor surgery Vanderbilt University, 1927-1930.

Professor surgery and surgeon-in-chief Medical College of Virginia since 1930.

Member deans committee and consultant surgery, McGuire Victoria and Albert Hospital, Richmond, since 1946. Consultant Portsmouth Naval Hospital since 1950.

Achievements

• Isaac Alexander Bigger has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member deans committee and consultant surgery, McGuire Victoria and Albert Hospital, Richmond, since 1946. Member Appeal Board, State of Virginia (Selective Service), 1943-1946. Member subcommittee thoracic surgery of committees on military medicine, division medical sciences, National.

American College of Surgeons fellowship

Member American Surgical Association, American Cancer Society (president Virginia division, 1945, 1947-1948), American Association Thoracic Surgery (treasurer, 1937-1944, vice president, 1944-1945, president, 1946), American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association (chairman surgical section, 1935-1936), Southern Surgical Association (president 1952-1953.

Connections

Married Beatrice Haslam September 9, 1922. Children: Dorothy Neel (Mistress Jack Grober), Barbara Norvelle (Mistress George West. Reahm), Edith Millicent (Mistress Claude South. Coleman).