Dr. Anderson completed his undergraduate degree at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and earned his medical degree from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University.
In 1973, he created the kidney transplant program at what was then called Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Ten years later, he formed a similar program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
“He always said that he never worked a day in his life because he loved what he did,” said Dr. Anderson’s daughter, Kristin Anderson Redington.
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