Charles William Mayo was an American surgeon

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, and a member of the board of governors of the Mayo Clinic

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 beginning in 1933. He was the son of Mayo Clinic co-founder Charles Horace Mayo

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 and Edith (Graham) Mayo.

In addition to his skill as a surgeon, he was also known as a medical administrator whose work was key in the development of group medical practice

Group medical practice

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. He chaired the Mayo Foundation, and the board of regents

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 at the University of Minnesota

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. He also had a role in the United Nations

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, appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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He and his wife Alice had six children. He died in a motor vehicle accident on his 70th birthday, near Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester, Minnesota

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Selected works

• Mayo, Charles William. Surgery of the Small & Large Intestine, Year Book Medical Publishers, 1962.
• Mayo, Charles William. Mayo: the Story of My Family and My Career, Doubleday, 1968.