Background
Obenour, Richard Alexander was born on October 4, 1930 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of William Hypes and Helen Hutton (Murrian) Obenour.
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Richard Alexander Obenour
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Bachelor of Science, U. Tennessee, 1953; Doctor of Medicine, U. Tennessee, 1955.
Career
Chief division of pulmonary medicine, University Tennessee Memorial Hospital, Knoxville, 1964-1991;
medical director, respiratory therapy, University Tennessee Memorial Hospital, Knoxville, 1991;
clinical professor medicine, University Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville, 1965-1972;
professor medicine, University Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville, 1973-1991;
president, Knoxville (Tennessee) Pulmonary Group, since 1972. Vice department chairman medicine clinical affairs, U. Tennessee Graduate School Medicine, Knoxville. Medical director Roan State Respiratory Therapy Program, Harriman, Tennessee, 1981-1991.
Board directors Physicians Medical Edition and Research Foundation.
Achievements
Membership
President Kiwanis Club of East Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967, East Tennessee Heart Association, Knoxville, 1967, Physicians Medical Edition and Research Foundation, 1995-1996. Fellow American College Physicians, American College Chest Physicians, Royal Society Health. Member American Thoracic Society, New York Academy Sciences, Knoxville Society Internal Medicine (president 1969), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
Married Mary Archer, December 23, 1953. Children: Patricia J., Jane A.
