Background
Opie, Eugene Lindsay was born on July 5, 1873 in Staunton, Virginia, United States. Son of Thomas and Sallie (Harman) Opie.
Opie, Eugene Lindsay was born on July 5, 1873 in Staunton, Virginia, United States. Son of Thomas and Sallie (Harman) Opie.
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins, 1893, Doctor of Medicine 1897, Doctor of Laws, 1947. Doctor of Science, Yale, 1930. Doctor of Laws, Washington University, 1940.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Rockefeller University, 1966.
Medical house officer Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1897-1898. Assistant instructor, associate in pathology Johns Hopkins, 1898-1904. Member Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1904-1910. board science directors, 1928-1932.
Visiting pathologist Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1907-1910.
Professor pathology Washington University, Saint Louis, 1910-1923. dean medical school, 1912-1915. Professor pathology, director department University of Pennsylvania, director laboratories
Henry Phipps Institute, 1923-1932, acting director, 1942-1946. Professor pathology Cornell Medical College and pathologist to New York Hospital, 1932-1941.
Science director International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation, 1935-1938.
Visiting professor Peiping Union Medical College, 1939. Research Rockefeller Institute Medical Research, 1941-1970. President National Tuberculosis.
Association, 1929.
Research Council Public Health Research Institute, New York City.
Member Rockefeller Institute for Medical. Served from captain to colonel Medical Roman Catholic, American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. Fellow American Association Advancement of Science.
Member National Academy Sciences, Association American Physicians, American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (president 1917).
American Association Immunologists (president 1929) Harvey Society (president 1936-1938). American Medical Association.
Married Gertrude Lovat Simpson, August 6, 1902. Married second, Margaret Lovat Simpson, September 16, 1916. Children: Thomas Lindsay, Anne Lovat, Helen Lovat, Gertrude Eugenie.