![]() ![]() In short order he became director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, initiated the nuclear imaging program in Cardiology, and started the first clinical trials research at MUSC. in the United States Public Health Service from 1962 - 1964 before joining the MUSC faculty in 1965 where he remained until he retired in 2015, receiving the Faculty Service Award in 2001.Īfter living in England and working at Guy's Hospital during two separate sabbatical years, he returned to Charleston inspired to develop MUSC's Cardiology Department. ![]() He graduated from Erskine College in 1954 and from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1958. At the time of his death, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and recipient of The Grand Order of the Cross from the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia.īorn to Julia Hinson Hendrix Hunter and Walter Herbert Hendrix in 1933, he led the Heath Spring Blue Devils to victory in the 1950 State Championships against Macedonia, 6 - 0. Born at home in Heath Springs, SC, he began his elementary education in a one-room school house, and went on to initiate the nuclear imaging program at the Medical University of South Carolina, perform the first cardiac catheterization at the Ralph H Johnson VA Hospital, and retired a Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division, at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Pleasant, SC, cared for by his wife and children. Grady Hinson Hendrix, 89, died at his home in Mt. ![]()
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