Charles Phillips Emerson

(Sept. 4, 1872-Sept. 26, 1938). Physician, medical textbook author, and long-time dean of medicine at Indiana University, Charles Phillips Emerson was a native of Methuen, Massachusetts. He received an A.B. degree from Amherst College in 1894 and an M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1899. He was an outstanding student and was an intern and faculty member under eminent physician William Osler, one of the four founders of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He took extensive postgraduate work in Europe. At Hopkins he wrote two books, Pneumothorax and Clinical Diagnosis; the latter became the standard work in its field.

In 1911, Emerson was appointed the dean of the Indiana University School Of Medicine (IUSM), a position he held until 1932. He was involved with the early development of the IUSM campus, which included the Robert W. Long Hospital, the Riley Hospital For Children, the William H. Coleman Hospital, the Ball Residence of Nursing, and the Medical School building that now bears his name.

Emerson wrote several medical textbooks that were extensively used nationally. He was elected president of the Association of American Medical Colleges and served as president or officer of other national medical organizations.

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