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January 4, 2026

Led by Advisory Deans, Dr. Rebecca Tenney-Soeiro and Dr. Prithvi Sankar, this house is named after Francis C. Wood, MD, a cardiologist, who graduated from the medical school in 1926 and served as the Chairman of the Department of Medicine from 1947 to 1965. In 1928, Dr. Wood joined the then newly organized Cardiovascular Section as teacher, clinician, and scientist. He won acclaim for his collaborative efforts on the development of chest leads for electrocardiograms. During World War II, he served with distinction as Chief of Medicine at the 20th General Hospital, the major military hospital organized and run by Penn Medicine to provide medical care for the American, British and Chinese forces in northeastern India. The Hospital won acclaim for achieving an overall mortality rate of only 0.4 percent for its 73,000 patients despite primitive conditions and constant threat of malaria and other infectious diseases. Upon his return to Penn, Dr. Wood was named Chair of the Department of Medicine, a position he held for 17 years. He assumed emeritus status in 1970 yet continued to teach and maintain an active practice until 1984. He served as President of the Association of American Physicians and of the American Clinical and Climatological Society.

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