W Bruce Fye

W. Bruce Fye was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He received his BA and MD degrees from Johns Hopkins, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed a medical residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan before returning to Johns Hopkins for his cardiology fellowship. During his tenure as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Fye received an MA from the Institute of the History of Medicine at Hopkins. He chaired the Cardiology Department at Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin from 1981 to 1999 and joined the Mayo Clinic in 2000.

Fye is the sole author of more than 100 historical or biographical articles and three books: Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization (2015); The Development of American Physiology: Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1987); and American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and Its College (1996). American Cardiology won the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. That prize is awarded to “one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award.” Fye is a past president of the American Association for the History of Medicine, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Osler Society, which honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He is emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine, Mayo Clinic. He and his wife Lois live in Rochester, Minnesota.