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List of Professors

Name Years at Michigan Positionsort icon

George Irving Naylor

1914 - 1921
Assistant Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery

Claude A. Burrett

1905 - 1914
Director of the Pathogentic and Pathological Laboratories 1905-1908
Instructor in Toxicology 1907-1908
Instructor in Diseases of the Blood and Genito-Urinary Diseases 1908-1909

George Watson Roberts

1901 - 1905
House Physician in the Homeopathic Hospital
Non-resident Lecturer on Clinical Surgery

Harold Francis Closz

1919 - 1921
Instructor in Roentgenology

James Krotzer Durling

1921 - 1922
Instructor in Surgery

William Thomas Miller

1902 - 1903
Non-resident Lecturer on Surgery

Perry Wessel Cornue

1900 - 1901
Professor of Surgery

Edward Carroll Franklin

1878 - 1883
Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery
Dean of Homeopathic Medical College

Oscar Le Seure

1895 - 1900
Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery

Henry Lorenz Obertz

1883 - 1895
Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery
Chair of Surgery and Clinical Surgery

Dean Tyler Smith

1900 - 1914
Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery

Henry Obetz

1883 - 1895
Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery

Hugh McDowell Beebe

1914 - 1922
Professor of Surgery, Clinical Surgery, Orthopedics, Electro-therapeutics and Roentgenology
Director of the Homeopathic Wards, University Hospital