Charles Russell Bardeen
| Charles Russell Bardeen, M.D. | |
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Bardeen in 1914
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| Born |
8 February 1871 Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| Died | 12 June 1935 (aged 64) Madison, Wisconsin |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Medicine & Anatomy |
| Institutions |
Johns Hopkins University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Johns Hopkins University |
Charles Russell Bardeen (8 February 1871 – 12 June 1935) was an American physician and anatomist and the first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Bardeen was born to Charles William Bardeen and Ellen Palmer Dickerson Bardeen in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1871, but grew up in Syracuse, New York. His father was an educator and publisher. He attended the Teichmann School in Leipzig, Germany, and then completed his B.A. at Harvard University in 1893. By virtue of being in the first medical school class at Johns Hopkins University, and having a last name at the beginning of the alphabet, Bardeen was the first person ever to receive an M.D. from that institution, in 1897.
Bardeen taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1897 to 1904. He then left Johns Hopkins and accepted the post of professor of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Bardeen came to Wisconsin at a time when the university was expanding under President Charles R. Van Hise. Van Hise and Bardeen shared the view that the one element the university was missing was a medical school. Bardeen was asked to create a two-year program fully integrated into the university.
In 1907, he became the first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Bardeen wanted the new medical school to evolve into a four-year program. However, he had to battle local physicians, who believed that such an institution would rob them of their livelihood. Later, the First World War and the 1918 influenza epidemic convinced them, and the public, that more physicians were needed in Wisconsin. Finally, in 1924, Wisconsin General Hospital opened its doors, and a year later the Medical School invited students to participate in a four-year curriculum.
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