Professor Nigel M. de S. Cameron has authored Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General., a biography on Dr. C. Everett Koop, a former Surgeon General of the U.S., also a member and ruling elder at Tenth (see memorial plaque on the Spruce Street wall of the sanctuary) and a pioneering pediatric surgeon at CHOP. The book has chapters on many aspects of his life, including Tenth Presbyterian Church and his medical and governmental careers. The Koops came to a life-changing faith at Tenth. Ministers Dr. Barnhouse and Dr. Boice and their wives, Tenth members Dr. Louise Schnaufer and RN Erna Goulding (close friends and colleagues at CHOP), and former Tenth pastoral staff member Cora Hogue Koop (Koop’s second wife), are all very present in the book.

Cameron has been invited to give a lecture at the College of Physicians about his biography of Dr. C. Everett Koop on October 16, 6 pm. Copies of the book will be available at the event, and he will be happy to sign them. The Department of Surgery at CHOP is co-sponsoring the evening.

The link to register is below. There will be a reception with refreshments. The lecture is open to the public, and there is no charge.

“Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General” Book Talk | The College of Physicians of Philadelphia