Isaac E. Atkinson

Artist: Thomas Cromwell Corner; Oil on canvas

Isaac Edmondson Atkinson was born in Baltimore on January 23, 1846. He was educated at the School of Letters and at the University of Maryland where he received his MD in 1865. 

He became a Vaccine Physician in 1873 and then the Superintendent of Vaccination in 1883. Dr. Atkinson was an attending Physician at the Baltimore General and Baltimore Special Dispensaries, and a Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of Maryland from 1879 to 1881. 

He was Professor of Pathology at the University of Maryland from 1881 to 1886 and then a Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Maryland from 1886 to 1900 when he became Emeritus Professor. He was a Dean at the University of Maryland from 1890 to 1893 as well as President of the Clinical Society of Maryland, Vice President of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1881-82 and 1884-85. In 1887, Dr. Atkinson became President Medical and Chirurgical Faculty. 

Dr. Atkinson was President of the American Dermatological Society in 1887-88, a Consulting Physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Member of the Lunacy Commission of Maryland. He was also the author of an article in Pepper’s System of Medicine. 

His offices were at 609 Cathedral Street in Baltimore. Dr. Atkinson died in 1906 and is buried at Greenmount Cemetery.