Time Trace Back: Prof. Frederick E. Dilley was a Presbyterian medical missionary from the United States, specializing in surgery and otolaryngology. From 1916 to 1920, he served as Associate Professor of Surgery at the Peking Union Medical College. In September 1916, during the hospital’s early years under new management, he was appointed as the Director of the newly established Xinkailu Hospital (now the location of the male dormitory on Xinkailu) and Acting Head of Surgery. As a key figure in the transitional medical team, he played a vital role in the hospital’s foundation.

Photo 1: Frederick E. Dilley, appointed in September 1916 as the Director of the Xinkailu Hospital affiliated with the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) and Acting Head of Surgery. (The hospital was located at what is now the male dormitory on Xinkai Road.)

Photo 2: A hospital ward in the early 20th century.

Photo 3: Nurses at the hospital at the beginning of the 1900s.

In early 2025, the granddaughter of Prof. Frederick E. Dilley wrote to Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), expressing the family’s wish to visit the very place where their grandfather once worked more than a century ago. On February 24, the three-generation Dilley family visited the hospital, toured the History Exhibition Hall and the former site of the affiliated hospital of PUMC, witnessing a century of transformation.

Photo 4: Group photo at the west gate of the Old Building.

Photo 5: The Dilley family sharing their family’s story in the Sunshine Hall of the Academic Auditorium.