Founder

Born in Rome, Georgia, in 1876, Rudolf Bolling Teusler was raised in a Christian home under the strict discipline of a pious and devoted mother and an uncle, Judge Bowling.
Dr. Teusler entered Virginia State University Medical School in 1892 and graduated in 1894. He assumed the position of Associate Professor at the State Medical School at age 21. In 1898, he married Mary Woodward and lived in Richmond. He arrived in Japan in February of 1900 as the fourth missionary doctor from the American Episcopal Church, and opened a clinic in Tsukudajima, Tokyo, in 1901. In 1902, he founded St. Luke’s Hospital in Akashi, Tokyo. Dr. Teusler significantly contributed to the development of the hospital until 1933, when construction was completed. The large, preeminent, modern facility was the most famous hospital in Asia at the time.
Dr. Teusler passed away in the summer of 1934 from chronic heart disease.

Philosophy This hospital is a living organism designed to demonstrate in convincing terms the transmuting power of Christian love when applied in relief of human suffering.
	Dr. Rudolf B. Teusler, Founder