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In Memoriam
Burton Combes
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Burton Combes, MD, Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and a former Ashbel Smith Professor at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern died in late November at the age of 86.
Dr. Combes earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1947 and his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1951. He completed an internship and residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital and was subsequently a research fellow of the American Heart Association, serving at Columbia and then the University College Hospital Medical School in London. He joined the faculty at UT Southwestern in …