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5 unusual facts about Walter Reed


Adolfo Lutz

Lutz was the first Latin American scientist to study in depth and to confirm the mechanisms of transmission of yellow fever by the Aedes aegypti species of mosquitoes, its natural reservoir and vector, as they had been discovered a few years before, by American physician Walter Reed.

Jesse William Lazear

After a few months in Quemados, Lazear, together with Walter Reed (1851–1902), James Carroll (1854–1907) and Aristides Agramonte (1869–1931), participated in a commission studying the transmission of yellow fever, the Yellow Fever Board.

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Welch was responsible for training many of the outstanding physicians of the day, such as Walter Reed.

Paul-Louis Simond

From 1901 to 1905 he participated on a mission to study yellow fever in Brazil where he and his colleagues confirmed the results that the U.S. Army Commission led by Walter Reed had just obtained in Cuba.

Walter Reid

Walter Reed (1851–1902), United States Army Surgeon who made a break through in Yellow Fever research


Borden Institute

In 1992, to honor Lieutenant Colonel William Cline Borden (Major Walter Reed’s personal physician and conceiver of the original Walter Reed General Hospital) the Center’s name was changed to Borden Institute.

Robert Garlick Hill Kean

He married Jane Nicholas Randolph, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Randolph and descendant of Thomas Jefferson, and their children included Dr. Jefferson Randolph Kean, who became a distinguished Army doctor and colleague of Walter Reed.


see also

Fisher House Foundation

President George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush opened the second Fisher House at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.

Joseph Brady

Joseph V. Brady (1922–2011), behavioral neuroscientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States

Kevin C. Kiley

Francis J. Harvey had appointed Kiley to return to Walter Reed as acting commander, replacing his original successor at the post, Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, who had been fired by Harvey that day.

Michael S. Tucker

Shortly after, General Tucker was selected to succeed Albert Bryant, Jr. as the Deputy Commanding General/Assistant Commandant, United States Army Armor Center and Fort Knox, and then assigned to Walter Reed in April 2007.

Tim Vakoc

Vakoc received the Purple Heart in his room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center during a private ceremony limited to immediate family members, Army personnel, and then-U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, who presented the medal.

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

The Pilot Bioproduction Facility (PBF) was established in 1958 as the Department of Biologics Research and is now located at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Walter Reed Medal

The Walter Reed Medal may refer to a Congressional Gold Medal awarded in 1929, or a medal currently awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

William Borden

William Cline Borden (1858–1934), American surgeon and planner of Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Wilmette Junior High School

Aaron Dubnow's grandfather, Leo Melamed, a holocaust survivor, and Mr. Walter Reed came to speak during the 2008-2009 school year.