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Cornell Medical Center (A.A.L.), New York, NY.
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Lewis Atterbury Conner, one of the founding group of the
American Heart Association in 1924 and its first president in 1924 to
1925, is honored by the Lewis Conner Memorial Lecture at the annual
American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
Conner was born in New Albany, Ind, and received the degree of bachelor
of philosophy from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University
in 1887.1 He then attended the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, where he received the
MD degree in 1890. Conner was appointed as a house officer at
New York Hospital from 1890 to 1892. From 1892 to 1894, he was in
Vienna, Munich, and Heidelberg as a postgraduate student. He returned
to clinical practice in New York City in 1894 (Figure 1
The Department of Medicine: Professor and Chairman
Most of Conner's career was devoted to the New York Hospital and
Cornell University Medical College. The New York Hospital was granted a
royal charter in 1771 and opened in 1791; in 1877, the hospital moved
to a new site that extended from Fifteenth to Sixteenth Streets, west
of Fifth Avenue. The Cornell University Medical College, founded in
1898, associated with the New York Hospital in 1927.
Conner had been appointed as an Instructor in Medicine in the original
faculty at Cornell in 1898 and became Professor of Clinical Medicine 2
years later. At that time he was also an Attending Physician to the New
York Hospital's House of Relief on Hudson Street and an Assistant
Pathologist
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Figure 1. The Conner chronology.
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