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Mrs. Louis Alsberg.

Adolf Alt was an opthalmologist who studied medicine at the University Heidelberg and moved to St. Louis in 1885. He was the founder of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, first published in 1884.

Bennett Young Alivs graduated from St. Louis University Medical School in 1918, and entered private practice in Ophthalmology with Dr. Meyer Weiner in 1920. He also served as an Associate Professor at Washington University School of Medicine from 1920 until his death in 1977.

Dr. Edmund B. Alvis (1910-1988) was a longtime St. Louis ophthalmologist who graduated with an M.D. from the Washington University Medical School in 1934. He served his residency at Barnes Hospital where he continued on staff for 50 years. He also worked in private practice with his father Bennett Y. Alvis in St. Louis. During World War II, Dr. Alvis rose to the rank of colonel in the Army after his exemplary service as an eye surgeon with the 21st General Hospital Unit in North Africa, Italy, and France. At war's end, he returned to his father's practice (later known as Alvis, Kayes & Knopf). As Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, he taught at Washington University through 1978, the same year he retired from practice. Dr. Alvis also published a number of articles on ophthalmic surgery, his chief interest.

*Sources: Obituary, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 17 September 1988, and Barnes Hospital Bulletin, October 1988, p. 6.

The American Academy of Neurology is a medical professional society established in 1948 by A.B. Baker of the University of Minnesota.

The American Board of Thoracic Surgery is a surgical organization devoted to surgery of the chest.

The American Cancer Society is a nationwide voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer.

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice. Source: https://www.facs.org/about-acs/archives/acshistory

The American Medical Association is the largest association of physicians and medical students in the United States, with a mission "to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health." Source: https://ama-assn.org/about

American Medical College was organized in 1873. Its backers were promoters of “eclecticism,” which was an approach to therapeutics that emphasized herbal remedies. The first class graduated in 1874, when instruction was offered at 7th and Olive Streets. The college admitted two classes each subsequent year up to 1883, thereafter a single class annually but with a longer term of instruction. From 1878 until 1890 the institution was located at 310 North 11th Street in St. Louis, and then moved to 407 S. Jefferson Avenue. Some time around 1900 the faculty staffed what was billed as “the only eclectic hospital in the west,” Metropolitan Hospital, but this facility evidently did not remain open long. Flexner graded American along with several other Missouri medical schools as “utterly wretched” following his visit in 1909. In 1910 the college abandoned eclecticism and formally embraced “regular” medicine. The college purchased a new building and also opened a second hospital and a dispensary on Pine Street at Theresa Avenue. Again the clinical facilities were short-lived. In 1911 American merged with nearby Barnes University. The combined institution was renamed National University in 1912.

The American Medical Student Association is a student-led, national association that exists to cultivate, inspire, and inform medical students. Source: https://amsa.org/about/