Blalock, Alfred

1899 - Born in Culloden, Georgia on the 5th of April.

1913 - Entered Georgia Military Academy, a preparatory school for the University of Georgia.

1918 - Graduated from the University of Georgia with an A.B. at the age of 19.

1922 - Blalock earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins.

1925 - With Harrison at Vanderbilt University in Nashville to serve as first chief resident in surgery.

1927 - Published his first paper on shock

1938 - He tried to produce pulmonary hypertension in experiments joining the left subclavian artery to the left pulmonary artery.

1941 - Offered Chief of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Collaborator with Vivien Thomas.