William Thomas Councilman served as the first pathologist-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (PBBH).

Councilman had arrived in Harvard Medical School earlier in 1892 and was an expert in the study of amebiasis, diphtheria, smallpox, and yellow fever.

His vivid morphologic description of changes seen in the liver of yellow fever lives on today as "Councilman body".

[6] By invitation, two years after his retirement at Harvard, he temporarily joined the staff of the Peking Union Medical College in China.

[2] A gifted horticulturist, Councilman always found time to care for his beautiful garden outside his office.