Henry Enos Tuley, M.D. (1870-1923)

Fourteenth Dean, 1914-1923

M.D., University of Louisville, 1890

Henry E. Tuley was born in Louisville, earned his M.D. at the age of 20, and received a second degree from New York Polyclinic in 1891.  He served as Resident Physician at the New York Infant Asylum, then at Sloane Maternity Hospital.  He returned to the University of Louisville during the school’s reorganization of 1907 as Professor of Obstetrics and Embryology, and later served as Professor of Pediatrics.

He contributed greatly to the literature of obstetrics, obstetrical nursing and pediatrics and authored The Diseases of Children and Pediatrics:  A Manual for Students and Practitioners.

During his time as Dean, the University of Louisville developed the graduate school and dental school.  Dr. Tuley continued the administrative and educational reforms of Dean Evans and raised standards for entrance and graduation.  He also served as Superintendent of Louisville City Hospital.  He served through World War I and the influenza epidemic of 1918, which killed 400 in the city of Louisville and 800 at the Army’s Camp Taylor.

Dean Tuley requested a leave of absence during the year of 1921, at which time Stuart Graves was appointed Acting Dean.  For 25 years Tuley was secretary of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association and was President of that Association at the time of his death.  He was 53 years old when he died of heart disease in 1921 while still Dean.