Robert vL Campbell, MD

Robert vanLieu Campbell was a general practitioner in Hagerstown who became the 1965-1966 president of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty. He had been a Faculty delegate to the AMA for ten years, and was a chair of the Faculty’s Reference Committee for several years. He also served on the Public Relations Committee, the Corporate Practice Committee, the Policy and Planning Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Osteopathy.

Dr. Campbell was born in 1917 and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1935 and then persued his medical education at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1939. He interned at Baltimrore City Hospitals.

Later in 1939, he went to London to study pediatrics as an exchange student at St. Bartholomew Hospital. In 1942, he attended the School of Tropical Medicine at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Dr. Campbell served in the US Army from 1942 to 1946, when he returned to his hometown of Hagerstown and began a general practice of medicine. He was active in the Washington County Medical Society, and was its President in 1963-1964. He was also Past President of the staff at the Washington County Hospital.