Harry Harlan Stone, MD, a member of the Department of Surgery from 1962-1983, passed away on April 7, 2022, at the age of 92. We offer our deepest sympathies to Dr. Stone's family as well as his former friends, colleagues, patients, and mentees.
We will forever be indebted to the foundational role Dr. Stone played in building the department's symbiotic relationship with Grady Memorial Hospital as the director of the Grady Burn Unit from 1965-1983 and both Grady Pediatric Surgery and the Grady Trauma Service from 1968-1983. He also directed the Surgical Bacteriology Lab from 1963-1983.
Born in Atlanta, Dr. Stone received his MD at Emory, did his surgical residency at Grady Memorial Hospital, and completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of London. While on our faculty, he conducted numerous high-profile burn studies and investigations of surgical infections, and initiated efforts with Dr. Robert Smith, III, and the late Dr. Garland Perdue to develop an organ transplantation program at Emory, culminating in Georgia's first kidney transplant in 1966.
After leaving Emory, he chaired the Division of General Surgery and served as the surgical residency program director at the University of Maryland. His passion for education led him to subsequent surgical training positions at the Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency at the University of Arizona, and the University of South Carolina Medical School in Greenville. He was the author of nine medical books, over 100 textbook chapters, and more than 1,000 journal publications.
Dr. Stone was preceded in death by his wife, Jean Martin Stone. He is survived by his three sons Dr. John H. Stone, Dr. William M. Stone, and D. Claiborne Stone, as well as seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Memorial gifts in his honor may be made to the Jean and Harlan Stone, MD, Endowed Chair of Surgery Fund at Prisma Health; the Jean and Harlan Stone Professor of Surgery Fund, Emory University School of Medicine (this endowment helped initiate the H. Harlan Stone Lecture in Trauma at Emory in 2007); or the University of Arizona Foundation/Stone Endowment.