Harold T. Dodge, MD

Abstract

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. Dr Dodge …