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James L. Tullis was once a leading blood researcher and made substantial contributions to the field. During his career, he developed a method of storing human red blood cells of rare blood types for clinical use. Dr. Tullis also worked
closely with Edward Cohn to create the Cohn fractionator.
Dr. Tullis decided to become a physician while growing up in Ohio, and he was the first in his family to do so. After receiving his medical degree from Duke University in 1940, Dr. Tullis completed his training at Roosevelt Hospital in New York and during World War II as a captain in the Army Medical Corps.
He joined the New England Deaconess Hospital in 1948 as a research fellow and worked to investigate the permeability of white blood cells. Dr. Tullis became the first president of ASH in 1959.
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I've learned more about my father's interest in hematology from reading this [Dr. Tullis's oral history], than I did from talking with him during his life. I know that he was very dedicated to ASH and would have been pleased that your group has undertaken this project. I'm looking forward to perusing the memoires of all of the outstanding physicians included.
– Virginia T. Latham, MD
Dr. Tullis and my father, Allen Latham, Jr., worked together on research with the original Cohn blood fractionator. I dated and eventually married Dr. Tullis' daughter Virginia, but it was only several weeks after we started dating that our parents realized it was that Tullis and that Latham.
– David W. Latham
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