Education
Harvard Medical School. Cornell University; Deep Springs College.
Harvard Medical School. Cornell University; Deep Springs College.
Aird also wrote a history of modern neurology and was a successful real estate speculator in the San Francisco area. Aird"s father, Doctor John Aird, founded the Aird Clinic in Provo, Utah. The facility was the only hospital in the Provo area for many years.
A lifelong musician, Aird was president of the Cornell University Glee Club as an undergraduate, and during his tenure as neurology chairman at University of California, San Francisco wrote a musical about the life of Joshua A. Norton (ca 1815-1880), the mentally ill self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States and Mexico.
Aird was educated at Cornell University, Harvard Medical School, and Deep Springs College.