Wood W Lovell, MD
1917 - 2007
Wood Lovell died on July 13, 2007 at the age of 90. He was born in Columbus, Mississippi and grew up in Florence, Alabama. He attended Mississippi Sate and got his MD degree from Tulane in 1942. He interned at Charity Hospital in New Orleans and after two years in the Army, serving in England and France toward the end of World War II, he returned to Charity for his residency.
Dr. Lovell then did a fellowship with Dr. Hiram Kite at the Scottish Rite Hospital in Decatur, Georgia and went on to found the Atlanta Orthopedic Clinic and to develop the Georgia Baptist Scottish Rite Residency. In 1965 he became Medical Director of the Atlanta Scottish Rite Hospital and began the impressive transition of that institurion to a full-service Pediatric Hospital.
In 1982 he retired to Sea Island, Georgia, but was lured back into academia by the newly-opened Nemours Children’s Clinic in nearby Jacksonville, FL where he served as Chair of Orthopaedics and Medical Director.
Dr. Lovell served as President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Secretary of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, and as Trustee of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. He was a Charter Member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society and served as its president in 1974. He was the second recipient of the POSNA Pioneer Award, now known as the Distinguished Achievement Award.
