Arnold Bullock, MD, urologist, receives the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professorship within the Department of Surgery. Image: From left, Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean Larry J. Shapiro, Arnold Bullock, MD, and Chancellor Mark Wrighton, at Bullock’s endowed professorship installation ceremony, 2014
In early 2014, Kelvin Westbrook becomes the first Black chair of the BJC HealthCare board of directors. Image: Kelvin Westbrook
Upon the death of Betty Robinson, for decades a beloved surgical technician in urology, Gerald Andriole, MD, urology division chief, praises her “true wisdom, a rare combination of experience, intelligence and humanity.” The Betty Robinson Urology Residency Education Fund is named for her today.
The Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery institutes the annual Norman E. Seay Lecture, named for the Missouri civil rights leader.
The Barnes-Jewish Center for Diversity & Cultural Competence is founded with Brenda Battle appointed as its inaugural director, setting the stage for what would become the BJC Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Office of Community Health Improvement.
Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH, receives an $18.5 million grant — then the largest grant ever awarded to a pediatric faculty member at Washington University. With this funding, he heads an international, multicenter trial in sickle cell disease. In 2008, he becomes the Ferring Family Chair in Pediatric Cancer and Related Disorders. “Dr. DeBaun is […]
Brian Phillips becomes executive director of the Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corporation, which was founded in 1973 to expand the Medical Campus and to stabilize and revitalize its surrounding communities.
Nephrologist Will Ross, MD, MPH, becomes associate dean for diversity at the School of Medicine and establishes the Office of Diversity Programs. Later the Alumni Endowed Professor of Medicine, he institutes the Washington University Medical Plunge, a program for incoming medical students that includes a diversity retreat and visits to a health clinic for underserved […]
The annual Dr. Helen E. Nash Academic Achievement Award is established at Washington University School of Medicine.
After 34 years as a surgical technologist at Barnes Hospital, Thelma Stocking retires. She had assisted Eugene Bricker, MD, with pelvic cancer surgeries and was a longtime scrub nurse for Richard Bradley, MD. “She was the stabilizing force in our OR. [Dr.] Willard Walker had both hands in a patient one day, and Thelma said: […]