Biography:

Physician; medical educator and administrator. Born– Dec. 5, 1897, Hartselle, Ala. Parents– Henry August and Carrie Camilla (Puryear) Kracke. Married– Virginia Carolyn Minter, Oct. 17, 1925. Children– Six. Education– Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1913-1914; University of Alabama, B.S., 1924; Rush Medical College, University of Chicago, M.D., 1927. Worked as a pharmacist, 1914-1917; U.S. Navy, 1917-1921; taught, University of Alabama, 1925-1926; taught, Emory University, 1926-1944; first Dean of the Medical College, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1944-1950, where he taught pathology, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine, and began building the UAB Medical College into a major medical center. Awarded a certificate of merit for medical research by the American Medical Association, 1934; gold medal, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1935. Elected to the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame, 2004.  Fellow, American College of Physicians; member; American Board of Pathology; American Medical Association; Medical Association of Georgia; Georgia Academy of Science; Phi Beta Pi; Phi Beta Kappa. Died June 27, 1950.

Source:

Who Was Who in America online; Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama in Birmingham; Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame website

Publication(s):

Color Atlas of Hematology, …. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1947.

Diseases of the Blood and Atlas of Hematology. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1937.

A Laboratory Manual of Bacteriology and Serology for Students of Medicine. Atlanta; Banner Press, s.d.

Editor:

A Textbook of Clinical Pathology. Baltimore; W. Wood & Co., 1938.