Victor Almon McKusick (October 21, 1921 – July 22, 2008) was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

[1] Before deciding to work as a dairy farmer, Victor's father served as a high school principal in Chester, Vermont.

[1] Since none of his close family were doctors, the events of 1937 represented McKusick's first substantial experience with the medical community.

Anne served Johns Hopkins Hospital as associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology.

During World War II The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine could not fill its classes.

[1] Victor applied during his sixth semester at Tufts, and began in the fall of 1942, as one of the first, of very few, who ever entered the school without a bachelor's degree.

[2] In 1956 McKusick traveled to Copenhagen to speak about the heritable disorders of connective tissue at the first international congress of human genetics.

[2] In the following decades, McKusick went on to head the Chronic Disease Clinic and created and chaired a new Division of Medical Genetics at Hopkins beginning in 1957.

[1] In 1960, McKusick founded and co-directed the Annual Short Course in Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

[5] OMIM is distributed through the National Library of Medicine, and has been a part of the Entrez database network system since 1995.

He also led the Annual Course in Medical Genetics at the University of Bologna Residential Center in Bertinoro di Romagna, Italy in 1987.

[7] He led a Congressionally-chartered committee examining the ethics of testing Abraham Lincoln's tissue for the presence of Marfan syndrome genes.

[1] On the 21st, the day before he died, he watched a live-stream of a course on medical genetics from Bar Harbor, Maine, which he helped found and direct in 1960.