Walter Reed - Legacy

Legacy

Reed's breakthrough in yellow fever research is widely considered a milestone in biomedicine, opening new vistas of research and humanitarianism.

• Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH), Washington, D.C. was opened on May 1, 1909, seven years after his death.
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) opened in 1977 as the successor to WRGH; it is the worldwide tertiary care medical center for the U.S. Army and is utilized by congressmen and presidents.
• Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), near Washington, D.C., is the largest biomedical research facility administered by the DoD.
• Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a new hospital complex to be constructed on the grounds of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland by 2011.
• Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, Virginia (near Reed's birthplace) opened on September 13, 1977.
• Walter Reed Medal (1912 to present) was awarded posthumously to Reed for his yellow fever work.
• Walter Reed Middle School, North Hollywood, California is named in Reed's honor.
• Reed was portrayed by Lewis Stone in a 1938 Hollywood movie, Yellow Jack Also a few screenplays of his work were portrayed. (from a 1934 play). The same storyline was again presented in television episodes (both titled "Yellow Jack") of Celanese Theatre (1952) and of Producers' Showcase (1955), in the latter of which Reed was portrayed by Broderick Crawford.
• PBS's American Experience series broadcast a 2006 episode, The Great Fever, on the Reed yellow fever campaign.
• Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center Firefighters Washington D.C. IAFF F151
• The Walter Reed Tropical Medicine Course
• Reed appears in sculpture on the great stone chancel screen at Riverside Church, NYC. (Section 4: "Humanitarians", rather than Section 1: "Physicians".)