(Circulation. 2000;101:2552.)
© 2000 American Heart Association, Inc.
In Memoriam |
Harold T. Dodge, MD
1 Puget Sound Health Care System,
Seattle, Wash
Harold Trace Dodge, Jr, MD,
great physician,
investigator, teacher, and friend of many in the
cardiology community, died in Seattle on
February 26, 1999. Dr Dodge grew up in Seattle and attended the
University of Washington for 2 years and Harvard University for 1 year
before entering Harvard Medical School. He graduated in 1948. He did
his internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and then
returned to Seattle, where he completed a year of residency in medicine
and a year of fellowship in hematology with Dr Clement Finch.
By this time, he had decided to specialize in
cardiology, so he returned to the East Coast for a year
of training at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a
year at Emory; this was followed by 3 more years at the NIH as a
clinical investigator working with Dr Robert Grant. Dr Dodge then
joined the faculty at Duke for a year before being recruited by Drs
Robert H. Williams and Robert A. Bruce to return to Seattle to become
the first Chief of Cardiology at the new Seattle
Veterans Administration Hospital. Dr Dodge remained in Seattle for most
of his career, with the exception of a 3-year interval as Professor of
Medicine and Head of the Division of Cardiology
at the University of Alabama in the late 1960s.
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Dr Dodge began his investigative career as a junior associate of Dr
Robert P. Grant at the National Institutes of Health. His first
article, which was published in