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Dr. James D. Hardy

Dr. James D. Hardy was chairman of the Department of Surgery from 1955 to 1987. He was one of the original faculty of the University of Mississippi Medical Center who participated in the opening of the University Hospital on July 1, 1955.

For more than three decades, Dr. Hardy nurtured the Department of Surgery, and in the process, he became one of the major medical innovators of the 20th century.


History Happened Here Walking Tour Stops

Original Classrooms and Lecture Hall

Medical Firsts: Lung and Heart Transplant Rooms