Background
Blocker, Truman Graves was born in 1909 in Westpoint, Mississippi, WAS0.
Blocker, Truman Graves was born in 1909 in Westpoint, Mississippi, WAS0.
Doctor of Medicine, University Texas, 1933.
Intern, Pennsylvania General Hospital, 1933-1935; resident in surgery, then attending surgery and plastic surgery, John Sealy Hospital, Galveston, Texas, 1935-1936; medical administrator, then dean clinical faculty, University Branch Hospitals, 1950-1955; instructor, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1936-1937; faculty, University Texas Medical School, 1937-1984; professor surgery, University Texas Medical School, 1946-1984; department chairman, University Texas Medical School, 1960-1964; executive director, dean, University Texas Medical School, 1964-1967; president, University Texas Medical School, 1967-1974; president emeritus, University Texas Medical School, 1974-1984. President University Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1977-1979.
Colonel Medical Corps, United States Army, 1942-1946. Brigadier general Reserve. Fellow American College of Surgeons (vice president), American Association Plastic Surgery.
Member American Medical Association, American Surgical Association (Vice-President), Southern Surgical Association, American Association Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.