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Dr. Ellison Dies at 89

Dr. Robert Gordon Ellison Sr., a stalwart of the Medical College of Georgia who h the son of John Gordon Ellison and Fredricka Fisher Ellison, was a native of Millen, Ga. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Vanderbilt University in 1939 and a medical degree from MCG in 1943. After completing an internship and residency at University Hospital and MCG and a cardiopulmonary physiology fellowship at Bellevue Hospital of Columbia University Co joined the MCG faculty in 1947 as an instructor and became professor of thoracic surgery and chief of the Section of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery in 1959. He was named Leon Henri Charbonnier Professor of Surgery in 1973. He retired from MCG in 1987 as Charbonnier Professor of Surgery Emeritus and Chief of the Section of Thoracic and Cstartspan -->

 
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