A private memorial service for Dr. Richard Bradley Davis, a longtime faculty member at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was held Friday in Minneapolis.
Davis, 84, died of cardiac problems Nov. 17 in Minneapolis.
A hematologist, he served on the UNMC faculty from 1969 until his 1994 retirement as emeritus professor of internal medicine.
At UNMC he was director of the Special Coagulation Laboratory and director of the Nebraska Regional Hemophilia Center. He also headed the hematology section in the department of internal medicine.
In 2008 he established the Davis History of Medicine Lectureship at the McGoogan Library of Medicine at UNMC. The annual lecture brings in nationally known speakers to address the process of scientific discovery.
Davis, a native of Iowa City, earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Yale University. After service in World War II, he received his medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1953 and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1964.
Davis is survived by his wife of 53 years, Jean Davis of Bloomington, Minn.; two daughters, a son and nine grandchildren.
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