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Edgar R. Pund, M.D.
Dr.
Edgar Rudolph Pund was president of the Medical College of Georgia
from 1953 to 1958 and is remembered for his work in helping to acquire
a teaching hospital, Eugene Talmadge Memorial, for the college. He was also instrumental in helping form the MCG
Foundation, Inc., which today is building endowment to help with
student aid, research, faculty recruitment and other areas.
In the area of research Dr. Pund's interests were many. He made more than fifty contributions to the literature. He was the first to develop a satisfactory method for staining the Donovan bodies of granuloma inguinale in tissue and to demonstrate that the disease may become generalized. Also he recognized the dissemination of lymphopathia venereum and showed that it may be a primary cause of death. Always interested in cancer, he was one of the early workers in exfoliative cytology and emphasized its value in the diagnosis of preinvasive carcinoma of the cervix uteri.
Born in Augusta, Dr. Pund was a graduate of the University of Georgia, MCG School of Medicine and was past chairman of MCG's Department of Pathology. He was a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity, the AMA, and was a life member of the Georgia Medical Association.
MCG Today
Fall 1975 Volume 5, #1