Fouad Bashour

Fouad Bashour, MD, PhD (1924–2003) was a noted cardiologist and Ashbel Smith professor of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

[1] Following completion of his studies, Dr. Bashour moved to Dallas, Texas.

He became instructor, and later professor, of internal medicine in 1959 at UT Southwestern, where he practiced until his death in 2003.

Bashour was the resident cardiologist at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and admitted to the hospital.

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