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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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"Doc" Nagele |
1848 - 1900 |
Janitor of the Medical Building Unofficial Demonstrator in Anatomy |
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Moses Gunn |
1850 - 1867 | Professor of Anatomy and Surgery |
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Edmund Andrews |
1852 - 1855 |
Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy Chair of Comparative Anatomy Superintendent of Grounds |
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Alonzo Benjain Palmer |
1854 - 1887 |
Professor of Matera Medica, Therapeutics, Diseases of Women and Children, Pathology & Theory and Practice of Medicine Dean of the Medical School |
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Corydon La Ford |
1854 - 1890 | Professor of Anatomy |
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William Lewitt |
1859 - 1867 | Demonstrator in Anatomy |
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George Edward Frothingham |
1867 - 1889 | Professor of Ophthalmology and Aural Surgery, Materia Medica, Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery, and Clinical Opthalmology |
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William Fleming Breakey |
1868 - 1912 | Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology |
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William James Herdman |
1875 - 1906 | Professor of Practical Anatomy and Diseases of the Nervous System |
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Gotthelf Carl Huber |
1887 - 1905 |
Professor of Histology, Embryology and Anatomy Dean of the Graduate School |
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William Aulls Campbell |
1889 - 1897 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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James Playfair McMurrich |
1894 - 1907 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Simon Menno Yutzy |
1896 - 1909 | Instructor in Osteology & Anatomy |
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George Linius Streeter |
1908 - 1914 |
Professor of Anatomy Director of Anatomical Laboratory |
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Rollo Eugene McCotter |
1912 - 1948 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Stacey Rufus Guild |
1915 - 1927 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Elizabeth Lockwood Thompson |
1918 - 1953 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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Orlow Chapin Snyder |
1919 - 1922 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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Elizabeth Caroline Crosby |
1920 - 1959 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Leon Henry Strong |
1928 - 1947 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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Norman Leslie Capener |
1929 |
Instructor in Anatomy Associate Professor of Surgery |
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Wilfrid T. Dempster |
1929 - 1965 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Bradley Merrill Patten |
1936 - 1959 |
Professor of Anatomy Chair Department of Anatomy |
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Russell Thomas Woodburne |
1936 - 1975 |
Professor of Anatomy Chair Department of Anatomy |
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Wayne Lewis Whitaker |
1937 - 1957 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Alexander Barry |
1938 - 1968 |
Professor of Anatomy Associate Dean of Medical School |
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Burton Lowell Baker |
1941 - 1978 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Theodore Christian Kramer |
1942 - 1975 | Associate Professor of Anatomy |
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Edward Willard Lauer |
1943 - 1974 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Darvan A. Moosman |
1947 - 1982 | Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
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John F. Kent |
1949 - 1957 | Associate Professor of Anatomy |
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George Clark Rinker |
1950 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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George R L Gaughran |
1951 - 1961 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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Joshua Harlan Carey |
1952 - 1956 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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Thomas Mann Oelrich |
1952 - 1986 | Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology |
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Robert L Hunter |
1953 - 1963 | Associate Professor of Anatomy |
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James K. Avery |
1954 - 1991 |
Professor of Dentistry, Anatomy Chair of the Department of Oral Biology |
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Raymond H Kahn |
1954 - 1986 | Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology |
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Donald H. Enlow |
1957 - 1972 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Donald F. Huelke |
1957 - 1997 |
Professor of Anatomy Research Scientist at the U of M Transportation Research Institute |
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F. Gaynor Evans |
1959 - 1976 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Maynard M Dewey |
1959 - 1966 | Associate Professor of Anatomy |
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Charles L. Votaw |
1960 - 1977 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Allan R. Beaudoin |
1961 - 1993 | Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
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Donald S. Strachan |
1963 - 1996 |
Professor of Dentistry Associate Professor of Anatomy |
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Jan Manuel Denuce |
1964 - 1965 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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Walter A. Castelli |
1966 - 1994 | Professor of Anatomy |
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William E. Burkel |
1966 - 2003 | Professor of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology |
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Bruce M. Carlson |
1966 - 2006 |
Professor of Anatomy Professor of Biological Sciences Senior Research Scientist Institute of Gerontology |
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Muriel D. K. Ross |
1966 - 1987 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Peter Coyle |
1967 - 1996 | Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
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Margaret I. Lomax |
1967 - 2008 | Research Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
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Alton D. Floyd |
1970 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Anatomy |
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Sarah Winans Newman |
1970 - 1996 | Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
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Don Lowell Fisher |
1972 - 2007 | Associate Professor of Anatomical Sciences |
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John H. Lillie |
1972 - 1997 |
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology Professor of Dentistry |
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Leslie J. Fisher |
1972 - 1981 | Adjunct Associate Professor of Anatomy |
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Johannes A. G. Rhodin |
1974 - 1977 | Professor of Anatomy |
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Jokelainen T. Pentti |
1974 - 1998 | Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology |
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Kent Christensen |
1978 - 1999 |
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology Research Scientist Chair of the Department of Anatomy |
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Thomas R. Gest |
1998 - 2011 |
Associate Profesor of Anatomical Sciences Director, Academic Program, Anatomical Sciences Division Associate Professor of Medical Education |