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5 unusual facts about Walter Reed Army Medical Center


Frank S. Besson, Jr.

On July 15, 1985, General Besson died of cancer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Lieutenant Colonel William Cline Borden was the initiator, planner and effective mover for the creation, location, and first Congressional support of the Medical Center.

After having served on other assignments, he returned as Professor of Medicine and Curator of the Army Medical Museum.

The Borden Institute, a "Center of Excellence in Military Medical Research and Education".

The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) was co-located in the same building with the AFIP.


Walle Nauta

He was a neurophysiologist in the Division of Neuropsychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (1951–1964) and a neuroanatomist at McLean Hospital (1975).

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007 is a medical textbook published in July, 2008 by the United States Army and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Borden Institute, with a foreword by reporter Bob Woodruff, who was severely injured in the Iraq War in 2006.


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.

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.

William Borden

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