Edward W. Hook
Academic physician and expert in infectious diseases
About Edward W. Hook
Lived 1924 – 1998 (aged 73–74).
Edward Watson Hook, Jr (1924–1998) was an academic physician and international expert in infectious diseases.
He attended Wofford College, Yale University, and Emory University School of Medicine, receiving his medical degree in 1949. After completing his residency and two years of fellowship in bacteriology at Emory University and four years of residency at the University of Minnesota and at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, he joined the Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases group in 1956. At Johns Hopkins, Ed worked primarily on the influenza virus and salmonella infection.
Hook was married in 1949 to Jessie Thurecht, who died in 2014. They had four children, one of whom is an infectious disease physician.
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Who was Edward W. Hook?
academic physician and expert in infectious diseases (1924-1998)
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Edward W. Hook was born in 1924.
When did Edward W. Hook die?
Edward W. Hook died in 1998.
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