Charles S. Bryan

Charles S. Bryan
Bryan, Montreal (2019)
Born
Charles Stone Bryan

1942 (age 81–82)
NationalityAmerican
Education
OccupationProfessor of internal medicine
Known for
  • Research in infectious diseases
  • Literary contributions to internal medicine and history of medicine
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician and medical historian
InstitutionsUniversity of South Carolina School of Medicine (UofSC)
Research
AwardsOrder of the Palmetto (2013)

Charles Stone Bryan (born 1942) is an American retired infectious disease physician, researcher, author and Heyward Gibbes distinguished professor emeritus of internal medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine (UofSC). His contributions to medicine have included working on a formula for administering the maximum possible dose of penicillin to people with kidney failure which would treat the infection and avoid penicillin toxicity, and treating and writing on HIV/AIDS. He is also a noted medical historian and an authority on the life of William Osler.

He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, and has been president of the South Carolina Infectious Diseases Society, the American Osler Society and the Columbia Medical Society. His awards include the American Osler Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and the Order of the Palmetto in 2013.

Bryan's publications include Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician (1997), Infectious Diseases in Primary Care (2002), and Asylum Doctor; James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra (2014), the result of 15 years of research.