Clifton Meador

Clifton Meador

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A longtime local professor of medicine and health care executive, Clifton Meador, has died. He was 90. 

Meador first came to Nashville in 1948 at age 16 to earn his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University. He went on to graduate from Vanderbilt School of Medicine with the Founders Medal in 1959, completing his residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after serving as a captain in the Army Medical Corps from 1957 to 1959.Â