Consultant emeritus and retired chief of the Vanderbilt cardiac clinic, died at his summer home in Sorrento, Maine. Dr. Bruenn, a cardiologist, grew to prominence as attending physician to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the president's last year of life. Chief of cardiology at Bethesda Naval Hospital during his Navy service, he met the president during a routine physical exam and was later assigned to accompany the president as his attending physician. He served Roosevelt until the president's death from a cerebral hemorrhage in April 1945. The Columbia College graduate earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins in 1929 and interned at Boston City Hospital. He specialized in cardiology during a residency at CPMC. He married Dorothy Conner, a graduate nurse at Presbyterian Hospital, after opening a private practice. As clinical professor of medicine, Dr. Bruenn was a renowned physician and author of many important articles on internal medicine and cardiology.
Doctor of medical science, 1934.