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Dr. McCarty was born in Pennsylvania, possibly in Upper Darby, on October 31, 1928. He earned is BS from Villanova in 1950 and his MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. He was a rheumatologist specializing in pseudogout, gout, and rheumatoid arthritis who taught in several academic institutions, including Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia, the University of Chicago medical school, and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He came to Wisconisn in 1974 after seven years at the University of Chicago and supervised the founding of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Arthritis Institute in 1989. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas Medical School.

Phillip D. Robinson, MHA, LFACHE was a Senior Vice President at Methodist Hospital and held many leadership roles in healthcare administration before retiring as President of Lankenau Medical Center in Philadelphia in 2022. During his time at Methodist, he traveled with Dr. Armin Weinberg to Russia and Ukraine to explore cooperation with organizations studying the health effects of exposure to low-dose radiation.

https://public-health.tamu.edu/documents/hpm/cv/2023/robinson-cv-2023.pdf

Sidney A. Schnur (June 23, 1910 – April 8, 1997) was born in Manhattan, New York and earned his MD from New York University in 1935. He was a physician and a clinical assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, and he served as president of the Harris County Medical Society in 1972.

One of Schnur’s patients at St. Joseph’s Hospital, near death from cardiogenic shock (when the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs) after a heart attack, was the test for Denton Cooley’s heart-lung machine in April 1956; the patient lived another six weeks before succumbing to a second heart attack.

Branch Tanner Archer (1790-1856) was a physician, legislator and secretary of war of the Republic of Texas

John Austin Wharton (1828-1865) was a Confederate major-general and lawyer

William S. Fisher (unknown-1845) was a soldier and secretary of war of Texas

Joseph Henry Barnard (1804-1861) was a military surgeon, diarist, and a private with the Red Rovers

Geoge Washington Barnett (1793-1848) was a physician, military captain, Texas Ranger, and Senator for the Republic of Texas

Booker Shields (unknown-1843) was a physician and surgeon of the Army of the Republic of Texas

Richard Fox Brenham (ca. 1810-1843) was a physician and member of the Texas Santa Fe expedition, Mier expedition, and the Somerville expedition against Mexico

David Gouverneur Burnet (1788-1870) was a financial speculator, lawyer, and vice president of the Republic of Texas

James Peckham Caldwell (1793-1856) Brazoria County planter and soldier

John Gordon Chalmers (1803-1847) was an editor and political figure in the Republic of Texas, and helped establish the Democratic party in Texas

William M. Carper (ca. 1810-1859) was a soldier, physician and surgeon for the Republic of Texas

Isaac Monroe Cline (1861-1955) was a physician, climatologist, and Chief of the U.S. Weather Service Bureau in Galveston during the infamous hurricane of 1900

Greensville S. Dowell (1822-1881) was a surgeon, teacher, editor of the first medical periodical in Texas, the Galveston Medical Journal, and co-founder of Texas Medical College (which later became the University of Texas Medical Branch)

George Achille Feris (1817-1898) was a Confederate Army doctor, surgeon with the military and the Texas Rangers, and a private practice physician

John Salmon Ford "Rip" (1815-1897) was a soldier, elected official, newspaper editor, Texas State senator, captain in Texas Rangers, Superintendent of Texas School for the Deaf, and charter member of Texas State Historical Association

Thomas Jefferson Gazley (1798-1853) was a physician, legislator, delegate at the Convention of 1836 and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence

Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1874) was an inventor, publisher, surveyor, and founder of the Borden (milk) Company

John D. Groesbeck (1816-1856) was a physician, surveyor, merchant, banker, sutler to several frontier posts (including Fort Sam Houston), alderman, and published the first San Antonio newspaper, the West Texan

Samuel Garner Haynie (1806-1877) was a physician, mayor of Austin, personal physician to Sam Houston, commissioner in charge of the erection of the capitol building in Austin, superintendent of the Austin Blind Institute

Thomas J. Heard (1814-1899) was a physician, soldier, and was one of Sam Houston's an attending physicians (along with Ashbel Smith) at the time of his death. Dr. Heard was also a founder of the Texas Medical Association, and also served on faculties of the Galveston Hospital and Medical College and Tulane University in New Orleans.

Thomas J. Heard (1814-1899) was a physician, soldier, and was one of Sam Houston's an attending physicians (along with Ashbel Smith) at the time of his death. Dr. Heard was also a founder of the Texas Medical Association, and also served on faculties of the Galveston Hospital and Medical College and Tulane University in New Orleans.

George Washington Hill (1814-1860) was a physician, congressman, secretary of war and secretary of the navy in Sam Houston's cabinet, and was appointed first agent for Brazos Indian Reservation

Asa Hoxey (1800-1863) was a physician, planter, slaveowner, and soldier of the Republic of Texas. Dr. Hoxey participated in the Siege of Bexar and served as medical censor during the first administration of President Sam Houston

Robert Anderson Irion (1804-1861) was a physician, surveyor, and secretary of state for the Republic of Texas under Sam Houston's first term of presidency

Anson Jones (1798-1858) was a physician, congressman, vice president of the Philosophical Society of Texas, and the last president of the Republic of Texas

Levi Jones (1792-1878) was a physician and land speculator, and was one of the ten people who formed the original Galveston City Company

Captain John T.K. Lothrop (1814-1844) was a lieutenant in the Texas Navy and second lieutenant on board the Independence. He was also the commander of the Zavala and the Wharton where he negotiated for fuel and supplies from the Yucatan