Theodore E. Woodward was an American medical researcher in the field of medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Background
Born in Westminster, Maryland the son of Lewis K. Woodward, Senior and grandson of Lewis Woodward, Theodore E. Woodward, is the patriarch of one of Maryland"s large medical families, consisting of his wife, Celeste L. Woodward, his sons, William E. Woodward and R. Craig Woodward, and his daughter, Celeste L. Woodward.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Franklin and Marshall College, 1934. Doctor of Science (honorary), Franklin and Marshall College, 1954. Doctor of Medicine, University Maryland, 1938.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Western Maryland College, 1950. Doctor of Science (honorary), Hahnemann University, 1993.
Career
He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1938. After a two-year rotating internship at the University of Maryland Hospital, he trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, all in preparation to enter practice in Carroll County, Maryland. Woodward entered the service of the United States Army in January 1941, just prior to the outbreak of World World War World War II During the ensuing five years, he served in various medical units and with the United States Typhus Fever Commission with assignments in North Africa, Italy, England, France, New Guinea and offshore islands, and the Philippine Islands.
Following discharge from military service in June 1946, Woodward entered private practice.
In 1948, he was appointed as a full-time Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In June 1954, he was appointed to the Chair of Medicine, a position which he held until 1981, at the time of his retirement.
Woodward died in Baltimore aged 91. Woodward is credited with coining, in the late 1940s, the following celebrated medical aphorism:
"When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don"t expect to see a zebra.".
Life trustee Gilman School, Baltimore, since 1955. Lieutenant colonel Medical Svc. Corp United States Army, 1941-1946, European Theatre of Operations, PTO. Member American College of Physicians (master, governor Maryland. regent 1969-1970, James D. Bruce Memorial award1970, Distinguished Teacher award 1992), American Clinical and Climatological Association (president 1969-1970), Infectious Disease Society American (president 1976-1977, Finland award 1972, Bristol award, Kass award 1991), Institute Medicine NAS, ElkridgeClub (Towson, Maryland.), Mayo Fellows Association (honorary), Hamilton St. Club.
Decorated Order of the Sacred Treasure Gold and Silver Star Government of Japan. Named Student Council Faculty awardee of Year, University Maryland, 1966, 1972, 1974-1978, 1981-1993, 1985-1989, 1991, 1993-1996, 1998, 2000. Recipient United States of America Typhus Commission medal, Department Defense, 1945, Exceptionally Distinguished Service award, 1990, Outstanding Civilian Service medal with oak leaf cluster, Department Army, 1981, Louis Pasteur medal, Institute Pasteur, 1961, Distinguished Service award, American Medical Association, 1995.
Decorated Order of the Sacred Treasure Gold and Silver Star Government of Japan. Named Student Council Faculty awardee of Year, University Maryland, 1966, 1972, 1974-1978, 1981-1993, 1985-1989, 1991, 1993-1996, 1998, 2000. Recipient United States of America Typhus Commission medal, Department Defense, 1945, Exceptionally Distinguished Service award, 1990, Outstanding Civilian Service medal with oak leaf cluster, Department Army, 1981, Louis Pasteur medal, Institute Pasteur, 1961, Distinguished Service award, American Medical Association, 1995.