Rudolf Bolling Teusler

Consultorio: Japón, Chuo City, St. Luke’s International Hospital
- Founder and mission architect: Dr. Rudolf B. Teusler formulated the hospital’s 1933 mission statement as the driving force behind management operations at St. Luke’s International Hospital.
- Built after disaster: the original hospital expanded from a clinic, was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake, and a full-fledged hospital was completed in 1933.
- International humanitarian leadership: in 1918, he was assigned to Vladivostok as Head Physician of the Japan–Siberia–USA Red Cross with 30 doctors and nurses.
- Institutional milestones: St. Luke’s Hospital was founded in 1901, and in 1917 it changed its name to St. Luke’s International Hospital.