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Dr. Carl Nelson passed away on January 12, 2005, after suffering a massive
stroke. His death was sudden and unexpected. His colleagues, patients, and
family were stunned and stricken with grief. His passing was observed at a
memorial service on Friday, January 14, at the Arkansas Cancer Research Center
in Little Rock. University Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, Dean Albert Reece,
faculty, and colleagues had a chance to pay tribute to Dr. Nelson before a
packed auditorium.A native of Indiana, Dr. Nelson graduated from Purdue University in 1955
and from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1959. Following internship
at Los Angeles County General Hospital in Los Angeles, he completed
residencies in general surgery and orthopaedic surgery at The Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. After two years in the Army, he was Nuffield
Scholar at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Center in Oxford, England, in 1968-69. He
returned to the Cleveland Clinic and stayed on the faculty as head of the
Section of Orthopaedic Research until 1974.