Cecil Hammond Coggins (November 22, 1933–September 19, 2019), who went by Pete, was an American physician who specialized in nephrology, the branch of medicine dealing with the kidneys.
He lived in Oroville, California, Washington, D.C., and went to high school in Qingdao, China.
He received his bachelor degree from Yale College in 1954 his Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School in 1958.
Afterwards, he joined the United States Navy for two years[3] and was stationed abroad in Cyprus.
[4] He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, though moved back to the east coast in 1965 for a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital.