Dr. Dennis A. Stouder
June 18, 2022 at 1:03 a.m.
Dr. Dennis A. Stouder
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Dr. Stouder was born in Columbia City in 1938 and graduated from Warsaw High School in 1956. The cherished antics of his youth were reflected in the retelling of stories about the lifelong friends he made at this time, working at Penguin Point and visiting Collamer Dam. His friends admired his intelligence, unbridled energy and colorful personality.
He graduated from the Indiana University Medical School in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in premedical education, a masters in physiology and an M.D. degree. As a graduate, Dr. Stouder was recognized with four outstanding scholarship awards including the Marcus Ravdin Medal. This is given to the senior student with the highest scholastic scores. He was also initiated into Alpha Omego Alpha, a national medical honor society.
For the next 10 years, Dr. Stouder completed medical internships, residencies and fellowships across the country. He established his private Internal Medicine and Nephrology practice in Nashville in the mid 1970s. Over the next 35 years, he passionately advocated for his patients through his private practice as well as serving as a Medical Director for Dialysis Clinic Inc., a non-profit organization that provides outpatient dialysis. Dr. Stouder was respected by his peers for his brilliance and analytic skills, often asked to consult on the most complicated medical cases.
His unorthodox approach made Dr. Stouder popular with patients and their families because they could identify with him. He never wore a coat and tie and rarely a lab coat, he was always accessible, waited on his patients in his stocking feet, and would announce the beginning of 5 a.m. hospital rounds with a rooster crow to alert patients and nurses alike that he was on the floor and ready to work. Dr. Stouder’s highest regards were saved for the men and women that make a medical community run. Wherever he worked he knew the name of every nurse, tech, security guard, housekeeper, and cleric earning him fierce loyalty from all.
“Doc” or “Den” as he was called by friends, was a charming, eccentric, irresistible force who could command an audience with his exuberance and fantastic storytelling. He was a complicated, humble everyday man with an exceptional mind. He loved music, movies, animals, and March Madness, devotedly cheering for the Hoosiers.Dr. Stouder passed peacefully at his beloved farm outside of Nashville. He is survived by two daughters, a grandson and a niece.
Dr. Stouder was born in Columbia City in 1938 and graduated from Warsaw High School in 1956. The cherished antics of his youth were reflected in the retelling of stories about the lifelong friends he made at this time, working at Penguin Point and visiting Collamer Dam. His friends admired his intelligence, unbridled energy and colorful personality.
He graduated from the Indiana University Medical School in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in premedical education, a masters in physiology and an M.D. degree. As a graduate, Dr. Stouder was recognized with four outstanding scholarship awards including the Marcus Ravdin Medal. This is given to the senior student with the highest scholastic scores. He was also initiated into Alpha Omego Alpha, a national medical honor society.
For the next 10 years, Dr. Stouder completed medical internships, residencies and fellowships across the country. He established his private Internal Medicine and Nephrology practice in Nashville in the mid 1970s. Over the next 35 years, he passionately advocated for his patients through his private practice as well as serving as a Medical Director for Dialysis Clinic Inc., a non-profit organization that provides outpatient dialysis. Dr. Stouder was respected by his peers for his brilliance and analytic skills, often asked to consult on the most complicated medical cases.
His unorthodox approach made Dr. Stouder popular with patients and their families because they could identify with him. He never wore a coat and tie and rarely a lab coat, he was always accessible, waited on his patients in his stocking feet, and would announce the beginning of 5 a.m. hospital rounds with a rooster crow to alert patients and nurses alike that he was on the floor and ready to work. Dr. Stouder’s highest regards were saved for the men and women that make a medical community run. Wherever he worked he knew the name of every nurse, tech, security guard, housekeeper, and cleric earning him fierce loyalty from all.
“Doc” or “Den” as he was called by friends, was a charming, eccentric, irresistible force who could command an audience with his exuberance and fantastic storytelling. He was a complicated, humble everyday man with an exceptional mind. He loved music, movies, animals, and March Madness, devotedly cheering for the Hoosiers.Dr. Stouder passed peacefully at his beloved farm outside of Nashville. He is survived by two daughters, a grandson and a niece.
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