THADDEUS M. KOPPA
1908 - 1949
Dr. Thaddeus M. Koppa was
born December 10, 1908, in Illinois. He
attended the University of Illinois at Urbana and graduated
from the
Medical School of the University of Illinois in 1932. He
received the
degree of Master of Public Health at the University of
California in
1938. He was a member of his local, state and national
medical societies.
He was also a member of the American Public Health
Association, the
Michigan and American Trudeau Societies, and the American
College of
Chest Physicians. He taught medicine and epidemiology at
different
times at the University of Illinois, University of Michigan,
Wayne University,
and Michigan State College. At the time of his death he was
Chief of the Tuberculosis Division, Branch 10, Veterans
Administration.
He was the author of numerous articles in the field of
tuberculosis
and public health. He served on numerous committees in the
field of
tuberculosis and public health in the state of Michigan.
Through his ability as an organizer he established
significant conferences
for the benefit of chest specialists in the medical
profession by
means of which the standards of medical practice in
tuberculosis control
and care in the community, as well as in the sanatoria, have
been
raised. The conference held in Southwest Texas each year has
been
named the Thaddeus M. Koppa Conference in his honor.
Elliott Mendenhall, Governor
for Texas.
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