J. Clayton Davie, MD Joins the Ranks of Leading Professionals

    BIRMINGHAM, AL, May 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. J. Clayton Davie, a retired physician, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in all aspects of medicine.

Throughout his 40 year career in medicine, Dr. J. Clayton Davie specialized in Neurosurgery. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Alabama in 1952 and then attended the University of Alabama, graduating in 1955. While attending the University of Alabama Medical School, he received an NIH Fellowship, spent 18 months in cardiology, and graduated in 1960. In 1961 he did his surgical internship at UAB and received an appointment as a clinical associate at the National Institutes of Health in conjunction with the first and second place graduates of Yale Medical School. He spent two years of his time in neurosurgery at NIH. In 1963 he was the first individual to be selected to be trained by the NIH in Neurosurgery. He was supported by the NIH as a Lieutenant Commander in the Public Health Service and then completed his Neurosurgical residency from 1964 to 1967 at Washington University, Barnes Hospital. From 1968 to 1970 he returned to the University of Alabama as a full time associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. During that period, he acquired a second electron microscope for the University. In 1970, he joined Carraway Methodist Medical Center and formed the first Department of Neurosurgery. He developed the first specific neurosurgical intensive care unit in the Southeast and was the first to develop a micro-neurosurgical unit in the Southeast in 1970.

In 1968 he was visited in St. Louis by Dr. Ludwig Kempe who had been a Czechoslovakian resistance operative and was brought as a reward and protection to Walter Reed Army Hospital. Dr. Kempe offered him a non medical job with the U.S. Government, which was not accepted.

The major portion of his career of 22 plus years at Carraway Methodist Medical Center was concerned with intracranial and micro neurosurgical procedures. He participated in developing the first trauma center and helicopter transport program in the Southeast at that institution. He also participated in the training of a number of young neurosurgeons during his career. Most notably, Dr. Arthur Day, who was Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida and then later Professor of Neurosurgery at Mass General in Boston.

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