George Russell Callender

Brig. Gen. George Russell Callender was an American physician and army officer. He was the commandant of the Medical Department Professional Service Schools in Washington, D. C. , founding commandant of the Walter Reed Tropical Medicine Course, and author of Malaria in Panama .

Callender was born in Everett, Massachusetts on May 13, 1884. He graduated from Tufts College Medical School, Boston in 1908, was commissioned in the Medical Reserve Corps in 1912, and entered the service on May 18, 1913. He graduated from the Army Medical School in 1913. Afterwards he served in the Hawaii Department 19161918 and as a pathologist at Army Medical Center in 1939. Callender became the Assistant Commandant, then Commandant of Medical Department Professional Service Schools 19401946. He was promoted to Brigadier General in March 1945.

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