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Introduction
Annual Report issue of
Medical College of Georgia
Today attempts to highlight
rhe
the school's best and brightest.
No
MCG,
small task.
with
its
2,200-plus student body (including
more than 400
residents) and
6,000-plus employees (including
than 1,400
is
and part-time
full-
more
faculty),
a wellspring of achievement.
The
subjects included in this magazine are
but a representation of the research,
MCG has
education and patient care
excelled at for 160 years, and the people
who make
People
MCG's
it
happen.
like Dr.
Francis
J.
sixth president. Dr.
joined the
Tedesco,
Tedesco
MCG faculty 10 years ago
as chief of the section of gastroenterology.
named
Soon
thereafter, he
then interim dean of the
activities,
School of Medicine.
dent July
is
was
vice president for clinical
1.
His
life
He became
on and
off
presi-
campus
profiled.
People
like Dr.
Gloria Clayton, a
School of Nursing faculty
studying vibrancy
old.
Her study
among
member
the oldest
participants are truly
inspiring, as is the confirmation that
old age needn't
be synonomous with
passivity and infirmity.
People
like
Ron Courson,
therapy student
in
who
a physical
tested his talents
the pinnacle of arenas:
athletic trainer for the
He was an
Summer
1988
Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea.
Turn the page to meet these three
and others like them.
—
MEDICAL
COLLEGE
GEORGIA
TODAY
The Health Sciences University
of the State of Georgia
USPS
Volume
867340
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Number
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Contents
Profile
21
Commitment to Success
Dr. Francis
J.
Tedesco brings values learned
in
childhood to his Medical College of Georgia
presidency.
Education
281 Labor of Love
Dr. Ralph
McKinney was warned
as a student that teaching would never be as lucrative as
private practice. But he wasn't motivated by
money; he was motivated by the
love of
academia.
301
Travelin'
Man
Donald Murphy logs about 25,000 miles a year visiting Georgia health care professionals and offering them the Medical College of Georgia's expertise.
Dr.
321 Going for the Gold
Physical therapy student
Ron Courson attended
the 1988
Summer Olympics
as an ath-
letic trainer.
Research
61
Golden Years
Dr. Gloria Clayton
121
is
studying vibrancy and independence
among
the oldest old.
Breaking Ground in Cancer Research
Dr. Alfred Bowles is probing an immunotherapeutic approach to curing brain tumors, and
preliminary results are impressive.
251 Digging Deeper
Dr. Wesley Covitz wants to know why patients with sickle cell anemia often have related
heart problems. The answer may hold hope for treatment.
Patient Care
91
Seeing the Light
A freak accident injured Todd
Canady's eye, jeopardizing his eyesight and entire future.
But with the help of the Medical College of Georgia, Todd's future is back on track.
341 Living Proof
Anne Moore Jones' chances
of surviving a malignant tumor at age 11 were slim. But thanks
Robert Parrish and what was then a new pediatric surgery program, Mrs. Jones
now a healthy, happy adult— has lived to tell her story.
to Dr.
Benchmark
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The
ohn Tedesco's motto was work hard and success
He was living proof.
He came to the United
Italy,
a teen-
ager leaving behind his family for the opportunities of
his
way up
to
manager
this
copper mill facone of the largest in
of a
tory; eventually bought a liquor store,
made wise property investments.
John Tedesco also made wise personal investments.
He met and married Lena Tufano. Together they brought
Connecticut; and
into the world four sons: John,
Tedesco thought about law school and business
The family business was his if he wanted it.
'I believe in my heart that if I'd chosen to be a lawyer or
a businessperson, I would have been successful at that.'
His father had taught him the basic ingredient of commitment to whatever task.
'In medicine, it turned out to be very, very easy. It's a
very rewarding field, because not only do you have the
intellectual stimulation which I think is very important, but
Dr.
States from
country.
He worked
Dominick, Francis Joseph
school.
'
'
the fact that
and Michael.
"It
They were to lose their youngest, Michael, at age 12
from pneumonia. The tragedy left permanent scars.
But the family was close and, by nature, strong.
John Tedesco was a tough father. There was a joke
between the brothers. 'If somebody would ask us if we
wanted something to eat, we ended up looking at my father
to see if we were hungry. That sounds like it was very
tough," said John Tedesco's third son, Francis Joseph.
'
it was a very caring environment.'
Everyone had chores and responsibilities. But there
were also the Sunday afternoon visits to the beach and
'
'But actually
summers
the shore.
at
"My father never had a formal education,'
Joseph.
"The day he
died, he
still
'
said Francis
spoke broken English.
But he was one of the smartest people I've ever known.
very precise at
he did
He
things.
give
how
mâm^mmmmm^^^mmmmmm
taught us
the value of hard work.
also taught us that
decision to go to medical school had not been any
sort of revelation.
will follow.
if
is
it
is
so rewarding.
an incredible high to deal with people, to be able to
make
relieve their pain or discomfort or actually
in
which you can
alter a difficult
problem
for
The gratitude they express, you can never be
compensated for that. That is your biggest reward. I knew
early on that I was very content with the decision.
'The more I studied, the more exciting it became.'
He was a dutiful student. "I never crammed. I studied
every day. I never stayed up late at night studying for an
exam.' He loved to study. 'The challenge of learning was
incredible.
'
'
'
wonderful."
He was
fortunate, too, to find role
models
in
medicine
and education as he had in other aspects of his life.
Two such models were Drs. C. Rollins Hanlon and Vallee
L. Willman, surgeons
on the faculty of St. Louis, who gave
extra time to the students, either before the regular
He
Taking advantage of the
you
offer necessitated the
someone your word,
students being
at
have endured.
for Dr. Tedesco.
now an
executive for
Dominick Tedesco, the
second son, was an executive
with Xerox.
He
And Dr.
is
Commitment
Francis J. Tedesco
the sixth president of the
to
Success
Medical College of Georgia.
The
all
He can be
MCG campus
long before sunrise.
When it came
time for a
residency, he opted for
internal medicine with an
specialization. Just four
months before
his residency
ended, he settled on
gastroenterology.
son already had
third
That
a habit
eye toward further
died in
October.
became
found on the
John Tedesco, the eldest
is
the
hospital about 4 a.m.
early rising
Bell Telephone.
work
JHBBMKUBKUBKESBMBBHSBBB^ day began or Saturday
mornings.
you have to fulfill it.'
Lessons learned long ago
son,
a diagnosis
them. That's
"I
the credits he needed to
like
the technology
associated with gastro-
graduate by the end of his
enterology.
I
like
doing
third year at Fairfield
endoscopy.
I
like
doing
University
things with
my
in
Connecticut.
But his father encouraged
him to finish the senior
year, telling him he could
never learn too much.
So he took a full load that
senior year before beginning
St. Louis University
of Medicine.
2
School
He
hands."
took a two-year
fellowship at Washington
University School of
Dr. Francis J. Tedesco
brings values learned
in
Medicine
in St. Louis.
"I liked the teaching
It was very
be around people
environment.
childhood to his presidency at the
exciting to
always on the cutting edge.
It
was very stimulating and still is.'
These things cemented his decision
again to
He
go into academic
to
"You don't have
to
be
academic medicine
enemas
be an
outstanding physician or a caring physician, there is no
in
to
was made
to teacher,
fellow,
he was working with a faculty
member at Washington University to remove a polyp from
colon when he noticed some little bumps in the colon he'd
a
never seen before.
Dr. Tedesco asked his attending about the
bumps and
Tedesco to remove the polyp and
he wished.
his
He
to biopsy the
matory process, or
colitis, that
biotic called clindamycin
enemas were the standard method
can be caused
when an
anti-
causes an overgrowth of bacteria
His findings thrust him into the limelight and early on set
a pace for Dr. Tedesco' s career.
Senate subcommittee and the
Food and Drug Administration about his findings. He was
testified before a U.S.
invited to give grand rounds at the University of California
Los Angeles but couldn't
because of a scheduling
at
conflict.
Tedesco
learned that while he was at
UCLA he was supposed to
Later, Dr.
see Alfred Hitchcock
problems.
That finding had an impact on the way medicine is pracmeant that when President Ronald Reagan
had his first polyp, Dr. Tedesco was called for a consult.
Dr. Tedesco stayed in Miami for three years, but by then
he was looking for new challenges.
of his old medical school classmates, Dr.
him about
Within a few months,
made
gastroenterology at
'I
thought
it
quickly reflect
me,
It
was
Tedesco became chief of the section
a section that
I
how I thought about
it was a section
was everything
could
make
relatively
gastroenterology. To
had infinite potential.'
Tedesco imagined.
But after a time,
that
Dr.
became obvious
it
to Dr.
Tedesco that he had accomplished much of what he
wanted for the section of
gastroenterology.
About
that time, Dr.
Jesse L. Steinfeld was
this antibiotic-associated
named
MCG. He
Desk
fifth
ture the
president of
began
to restruc-
MCG administra-
and asked Dr. Tedesco
be vice president for
tion
lists
drugs, their purposes and
their side effects,
of
MCG.
colitis.
Reference, which
Peter
to order.
A decade ago Dr.
'
J.
MCG where he was working.
a job opened at MCG that seemed
who
of having
Physician's
for
But Dr. Tedesco found using colonoscopy, a more invaanywhere from 35 to 40 percent of the
time there was some serious problem such as a polyp or
cancer in these patients who appeared to have no serious
Rissing, told
leading to inflammation of the colon.
was suspected
inflam-
sive procedure, that
One
if
This inquisitiveness led to the discovery of an inflam-
The
enemas or
common
ticed. It also
attending gave the honest reply that he didn't know.
He
rectal
ing the bleeding.
to order.
he also was
touched by the eager, inquisitive minds of students who ask
why and why not and daily provide intellectual challenge.
As research
that indicated diverticulitis, a fairly
Single contrast
As he moved from learner
bumps
who had
determining whether patients had serious problems caus-
Tedesco, academic medicine offered a
stimulation and challenge that
told Dr.
man.
mation of the colon.
question about that."
for Dr.
a visible
bleeding but had negative single contrast barium
medicine.
But
become
looked at hundreds of patients
to
was
clinical activities.
modified to include the
'
'That probably
me
problem Dr. Tedesco found
kept
related to clindamycin.
Tedesco
Follow-up led to the
in
is
what
Augusta," Dr.
said.
From
third floor of the
the
MCG
discovery that the treat-
Administration Building, Dr.
ment
Tedesco's career
for this colitis
another
was
He remained
on
for a year
the faculty of Washington
moved to
the University of Miami
University, then
School of Medicine.
quickly
moved from
at
MCG
became somewhat more
antibiotic.
global.
He became
involved in
reviewing existing
facilities to
clinical
determine
He
needs and ways to meet
assis-
those needs.
tant professor to associate
professor and co-director of
a clinical research unit.
Here Dr. Tedesco was
The
Specialized Care
will enhance
emergency, trauma and
Center, which
intensive care capabilities of
MCG,
and the Ambulatory Care Center, which
will consoli-
date and enhance outpatient care, are the results of these
and carried out by many
Dr. Tedesco. These buildings are scheduled for
efforts fostered by Dr. Steinfeld
people
like
completion
in
early 1991.
exposure.
"I think
we
are a very major resource in the community.
say that because
we have
things
to
I
But
believe that.
do
to
I
also
know there
are
our mission as an academic
One
of those things is to take care
and to make sure that we provide the environment for both an outstanding educational program and a
Luann and daughter Jennifer
talked with wife
to
make
"I didn't respond for a long time," he said of his nomination for the presidency.
He
liked the challenges of being
dean and felt himself to be a very viable candidate for the
permanent job.
"But as president, I would not only be able to define the
directions of one school, but the whole institution. That to
He and Mrs. Tedesco made
a philosophical decision to
stay in administration and accept the potential gamble.
of patients
program where we can
He
me is exciting.'
fulfill
health sciences center.
at getting
the job.
this pivotal decision.
He was able to create a patient care policy that clearly
denned the need to have a broad spectrum of patients at
MCG so that students and residents could get broad-based
I
wanted the president's job.
And he wondered about an insider's chance
July
recruit the very best people to our
1,
he became president.
"I think every day
decision.
faculty.
think
I
am more
sure that
I
made
the right
going to be challenging, exciting and
it's
patients,
I'm even more convinced that it is going to be successful.'
He sees as his most important role the bringing together
of people to define common goals and work together to
of
bring the goals to fruition.
"If that
interpreted or translated as being
is
then so be
petitive,
it.
But
if
we were
more com-
I
to just have referred
we would be teaching on a very small component
what the graduates are going to have to know when they
get into practice.'
'
As Dr. Tedesco delved
activities at
Then
into the
would be doing
it
would do it as if I
would not just
would go on to develop new pro-
the rest of
maintain status quo.
We
I
my life. We
grams and do new things, that I would run the School of
Medicine. That's what really happened."
The more Dr. Tedesco did the job, the more he loved it.
He
'
'I
feel
in administration,
meant
it
significantly impacted.
very strongly for you to be a patient's doctor, you
commitment to that patient, not only an emotional commitment, but a time commitment. What I found,
even as dean, was that my day was getting to be less and
are making a
less of
call
my own.
I
don't think
it's fair
to a patient
when
they
their doctor to have to get a call back either the next
day or 18 or 20 hours
So,
first
gradually
later.
as dean, and
moved
I
now
into a role
feel
uncomfortable with
that
that.'
as president, Dr. Tedesco has
he defines as expeditor of
goes
go to
is
in that direction.
to create a
The
management
president also has a
different places throughout the state to try to
make people understand what MCG is, what MCG does
and how it impacts not only the immediate community but
the whole state.
when you find people as close as
who don't really understand
what MCG does. And yet, some of our patients come from
that area. They come from all over the state.
"It's interesting
Atlanta, three hours away,
"We
System
decided early to apply for the job permanently.
As he became further involved
that his time for patient care was
think the president's role
role to
to
MCG School of Medicine.
with the understanding that
'I
team
clinical
he seemed to find a new home.
new challenge surfaced. He was asked
serve as interim dean of the
it
issues of
MCG,
in 1986, a
"I did
many
cess
are the health sciences center for the University
of Georgia and for the state of Georgia.
will
enhance the
state's
success
in
Our
suc-
bringing health
care technology to the state, in bringing health-related
industry to this area as well as other parts of the state.
"I think
we
should be the group that our legislators, that
our health planners turn to when they have
difficult
issues
they have to address related to health care.'
So, yes, Dr.
Tedesco
will
be an ambassador
for
MCG
He will meet with alumni,
and anyone who wants to talk about MCG.
throughout Georgia and beyond.
lawmakers, citizens
'
'I
tion
think Dr. Steinfeld's
were on
target.
I
dreams and goals
for this institu-
think Dr. Steinfeld anticipated the
delivered, but
changing, not only
from either patients or other physicians. I
help them outline an approach. That approach may mean
also in the attitude of the state toward their educational
"I get
calls
members to see the patient.
scheduling some tests. I think I have
arranging for one of our faculty
It
may mean
actually
the best of both worlds.
I still
maintain a very good relation-
The weaning from
saddened him,
was gradual.
Dr. Tedesco was not long to
patient care has not
but Dr. Tedesco admits that he
As
tradition
would have
it,
warm the dean's seat.
The opportunity to become
is
glad
it
'
educating health care practitioners.
somewhat
They
in
are giving us
we deserve credit. But they are saying
we expect more from an academic health
credit for that and
is
more,
sciences center."
The mores
include scholarly activity such as research as
well as enhancing patient care.
'
president was
is
system and the medical college.
'We have always been a very successful school
there
ship with these patients."
in
the
way health care
patient care.
'All
those are goals that were carefully and
pointed out by Dr. Steinfeld.
on target.
I
critically
think every one of those
think there
were probably
double-edged.
goals
He could apply for the job, not get it and be told by the
new president that he did not want as his dean a man who
some misunderstandings, some concern about management style.'
4
Medical College of Georgia Today
is still
right
I
But Dr. Steinfeld brought a sense of demand that was not
MCG before, he said.
That sense resulted in development of a master plan
at
outlining the future goals of
It
made
also
MCG.
sion, bonds should be issued for the $37 million Specialized
Care Center and Ambulatory Care Center, which are
The
chancellor, the
governor
all
MCG.
than
I
Board of Regents,
and the
legislators
have indicated their support of this effort.
becoming
a 13-year-old
am about being president
"I think
outstanding support personnel.
I
have a good student body.
'
'I
young
lady, a teen-ager,
of the medical college.
have the background to be president.
I
I
Why
I
have
have a very strong
faculty.
be nervous?
think we have to do more long-range planning, and we
should
I
I think we have to anticipate
make bold moves. Make new relationships. I also think we have to become stronger in our
research ability. I think we have done a good job, but we
already are doing that.
We have
changes.
to
have to do a better job.
"I would like to believe that
we
will
in
I
the not-too-distant-future,
be one of four very strong, interrelated research
centers."
enjoyed
lot of
very
it
clear communication
alumni, legislators and everyone
MCG to work with the Georgia
Institute of Technology,
logical
reason for everything we do. Not that
we
that
thoughtful process.
Our
goal
is
to
Neither
sities will
"It's
We already
something that we need.
over 60 faculty
We need
members
facilities to
to
complement the strong
goal
is
to
the three vacant dean
positions in medicine, dentistry
filled
and allied health. He
to have all positions
during this academic
we
Dr. Tedesco and his wife's own experience with the
trauma of a child with cancer has brought this point very
close to home.
When Jennifer Tedesco was diagnosed in 1985 as having
rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue tumor, her parents could
— ——
kept her at
in this
country for care. But they
MCG. Jennifer is now in remission and
"
—
i
n.
i
.
i
..
doing
well.
the country that could
have rendered care better
don't think
I
understood
I do now,
after going through
it.'
to have
been able
to share
those resources, unlucky
needed them.
And he
feels a
commitment
deep
ensure that
to
MCG has facilities adequate
to
meet the needs
of
throughout Georgia.
"I've learned a greater
appreciation of the enor-
mous talent and resources
we have at the medical
that
college which
I
as a faculty
member didn't know we
year.
"I want to enhance the
accessibility
faculty
have and the support services for the faculty'
parents and children
should expect of others.'
hopes
have
that his daughter ever
univer-
work together
One immediate
We
dedicated to the care of children.
Dr. Tedesco feels lucky
maximize the resources
they are given. There will
be more things expected of
us and more things that we
fill
is
are the chil-
dren's medical center for the state of Georgia.
feel
a high priority.
its
MCG
nor least of the immediate goals for
last
construction of a children's medical center.
that as well as
state has the right
to expect that
I
academic health sciences center. Our goal is not to hurt
someone else. I am going to be very available. I don't mind
telling people what we do.'
I
is
what we do. But
it has been a
enhance this as an
think they will always understand that
than the care she got here.
Regents who now
"The
will
think
that everyone will always agree with
in
the most
have a chancellor and Board
that this
I
"I'm 100 percent sure
is nowhere else
expertise.
of
on campus, with the
that there
of each university's
"I'm content
a great love for
who has an interest in
Georgia State University
make
learned that
I
Goals and decisions can be misunderstood. "There
r~
and the University of
Georgia on collaborative
efforts that
as dean.
who have
MCG.
have taken her any place
Dr. Tedesco wants
much
people out there
the Medical College of Georgia.'
be a
Dr. Tedesco describes his own presidency as an open
one that he takes on calmly.
"I am more nervous about the fact that my daughter,
Jennifer, is
there are a
He wants
possible the fact that this legislative ses-
crucial to the future of
gatherings.
and relation-
had.
I
would
ship of the alumni to the
everyone
president's office.
Georgia."
I
intend
to participate in alumni
like to
extend
that opportunity to
in
the state of
—Toni Baker
'
'
M
Willingham took
ary
P.
her
first
plane ride this
past July. She flew to
Philadelphia to visit her
son, the sole survivor of her four
children.
"I thought the plane would scare
me
to death, but
think otherwise.
member of my
wasn't so bad,'
it
she reflected. She wishes her son
weren't so
she
far away,
lives alone,
Mrs. Willingham's
is
it's
I
get very lonely, but
not long before somebody's over
here to liven things
up,'
'
she
College of Georgia visited her
in
August, she was looking forward to
her birthday.
"If
I
see Thursday' she
be 101."
live to
'
Mandy
ed
to
Wheeler apologizher guests that her
apartment— a
unit of a
low-income housing pro-
Athens— was so untidy. The
commented that it looked
immaculate. Mrs. Wheeler, who lives
ject in
guests
alone, cooks and cleans for herself,
despite the fact that she had a leg
amputated some 20 years ago and
is
confined to a wheelchair.
'
'When I had my
leg and could get
around, everything was spotless," she
said.
'
Anyone who knew me knew
me was neat as a
everything around
pin."
Although housecleaning
than
it
used
to be,
life
in
is
harder
general
is
considerably easier for Mrs. Wheeler.
The daughter
of slaves, she spent her
childhood working in the fields and
She and her
brothers and sisters grew up
illiterate to this day.
is
10
impoverished.
"We had to go to church barefooted.
We got two pairs of shoes for the year
—one for winter, one for summer. If
you wore them out, you didn't get no
6
is,
Goldei
jB LW hat are these centenari-
I MM
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said.
Neighborhood children stop by frequently just to say hello, as do
numerous friends and relatives.
When she doesn't have company,
Mrs. Willingham cooks, cleans, and
goes to church and community activities. She likes to watch court shows
on television when she isn't busy.
When a group from the Medical
said, "I'll
old she
she's closer to 109.
I
'Sometimes
how
but she guesses 106. Her niece thinks
never quiet
for long.
'
"I'm the oldest
church.'
She's not sure just
but even though
Athens, Ga., apartment
more," she recalled.
But with or without shoes, Mrs.
Wheeler never missed church. Does
she still attend regularly?
"Yes, ma'am!" she answered,
seemingly shocked that anyone would
ans' secrets to living
long and living well?
ladies
The
themselves can
only speculate: Mrs. Wheeler noted
that she drinks
prune juice for
Dr. Gloria Clayton
is
studying vibranc
breakfast and long ago gave up her
of a four-year grant to study lifestyles
pipe-smoking habit. Mrs. Willingham
of very old people
thinks long
life
spans run
but she doesn't
know
in
her family,
for sure:
mother never knew her
folks.
'
'My
She was
stolen by the white folks (as a slave)
and never knew how old she was,'
she
Yeats
said.
Basically, both are
Lord's
let
me
live
on
stumped. "The
for
some
reason," Mrs. Willingham said. "I
don't
Dr. Gloria Clayton, associate pro-
fessor and associate dean for the
undergraduate program of the
d
independence among the oldest
old.
"There
MCG
is
something special and
vibrant about individuals
who
pass the
age of 80 full of life and in reasonable
health and functioning,' wrote Dr.
'
Leonard W. Poon, a principal investigator and chairman of the UGA gerontology department, in his grant
proposal.
The
know why."
who've retained
their independence.
National Institute of Mental
Health
is
giving the researchers about
$760,000 to study that vibrancy. Drs.
Clayton, Poon and Peter Martin,
School of Nursing, wants to find out.
assistant professor of child and family
She and two University
development
of Georgia
professors are principal investigators
at
UGA,
people
in their 80s,
and 88
in their
group).
60s
88
still
in their 100s,
(as a control
They began
April and are
their research in
selecting participants.
Although the research
off the
study 88
will
is
just getting
ground, Dr. Clayton said
several generalizations have already
emerged.
'We were
'
originally
concerned
about finding participants
in
the
centenarian (100-plus) group," she
said. "But we've learned that it's
easy to find them. There are a lot of
100-year-olds
who
and are cognitively
live
by themselves
intact.'
'
One
of
every 10,000 people lives to age 100,
and 38 percent of those live at home,
she said.
But though they
live
by themselves,
most people that age have a lot of support. "They're very well-buffered,"
Dr. Clayton said. "It's good news that
people that age have a good support
system.
tive
It's clear
they're in a protec-
environment."
Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Willingham
both have a steady stream of visitors.
Jackie Gilmore, a 17- year-old relative
of Mrs. Wheeler, stops by
two or
three times a week, stays for several
hours each time and helps cook and
clean.
Dr. Clayton said people
need no
motivation to reach out to these
elderly.
'
'There's kind of a societal
expectation that centenarians need
special treatment. It's like a national-
monument
status," she said.
But the researchers have observed
Dr. Gloria Clayton chats with
Mandy
Wheeler in Mrs. Wheeler's home.
Annual Report
7
'
Mary P.
'
Willingham discusses secrets
to her longevity.
that a
more important element than
societal support is the inner strength
of the participants.
'
'
'
'The ones we see are
still
earlier in
life.
'
A pilot
After divorcing a
husband who mistreated her, Mrs.
Wheeler traveled throughout the
country. Mrs. Willingham taught
herself to read and write in adulthood,
then went to nursing school at night
for three years while working and
study Dr. Clayton conducted
before the research also supports the
She and a team of investiga20 octogenarians and
eight centenarians. Each completed
theories.
tors selected
questionnaires assessing their adaptational
and survival
physical and
skills,
involved in activities— church, social,
raising
community, etc.," Dr. Clayton said.
"They're very engaged in something;
that the participants deal well with
(Current subjects are given similar
there's something critically important
loss and change.
evaluations and take physical
in their lives.
These
sit around watching TV. There's
something that makes them feel
seems
What
that
"We're beginning
are not people
who
valuable.
her children.
The researchers also have found
something
is
to vary.'
Both Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs.
to see that
each
mental health, environmental support,
time use and individual characteristics.
Findings showed the subjects are
subject has experienced a great deal
of loss," Dr. Clayton said.
"But
exams
before they participate.)
physically healthy, very active, inde-
I
don't recall a single subject that
pendent and follow structured, planned
seems depressed or grieving. They
seem to learn to take loss well.'
days.
Mrs. Willingham, for instance,
Willingham, for instance, are involved
Most have
friends or relatives
who check on them daily.
Socioeconomic backgrounds of parand current
is
with their churches. Mrs. Wheeler's
matter-of-fact about the death of three
recently gave her a certificate lauding
of her children. "I don't think about
study vary.
her contributions. She's also in touch
with current issues: she has a bumper
my children anymore,"
across the strata of socioeconomics,'
sticker
on her front door that reads,
"Say Nope
'
'The Lord took them to be with Him,
and
I
Mrs. Willingham's door is always
open to the steady stream of
neighborhood children who seem to
These
seem
'We've talked to people
The researchers hope
lecting data this
doing.'
early findings
'
Dr. Clayton said.
don't ask no questions, 'cause
He knows what He's
to Dope.'
she said.
ticipants in both the pilot
to
bear
it
fall
to begin col-
and plan
to analyze
during the last six months of the
out the researchers' hypotheses: that
study. In the meantime, each partici-
pant
regard her as a surrogate grand-
independent octogenarians (ages 80 to
89) and centenarians master skills of
And both have
adaptation and survival; that activities
mother.
a lot of pride in
and opportunities enhance
themselves and their surroundings.
Mrs. Wheeler insisted on donning a
wig and dress before having her pic-
and that such
factors as personality and religious
ture taken.
beliefs affect physical
They
8
also exhibited
independence
life
satis-
faction of the elderly;
health and
life
and mental
satisfaction.
is
proving to be a wellspring of
in-
sight into happy, independent old age.
'
'You just keep on living and do
right,"
'
Mrs. Willingham advised.
live long living wrong.
'You sure can't
You've got to love everybody and keep
on
living."
—Christine Deriso
/t
was a freak accident
that took
seconds to
happen.
Its result will last a
lifetime.
Todd Canady was
a
young
man working on his dream.
He wanted to fly the big jets
and was taking
tion in his
flight instruc-
hometown,
Savannah.
Dec. 12, 1987, Todd also
was working on his 1973
Camaro when a rubber
strap popped off and hit him
in
the
left
eye.
my hands and I
my hands because
had grabbed the side of my
"I opened
looked at
I
face.
figured I'd see
I
blood." Todd
iac
is
a hemophil-
and bleeding always
is
a
concern.
Pain and inflammation
followed the trauma. Within
a
week
his vision
was
deteriorating and there
blood
in
was
the eye.
Todd came
to the
Medical
College of Georgia and Dr.
Brent C. Norman, an
Seeing
ophthalmologist with
special training in care of
the retina and vitreous.
In addition to the blood in
the front portion of his eye,
the pressure inside Todd's
the Light
eye was elevated. Doctors
observed Todd
for a
few
days, but his eye did not
improve.
Todd was headed
for a
rocky course that has
included five major proce-
dures on his eye.
pulling the retina
During that course he had
The
blood removed from the
and
removed from
away from
the eye wall.
retina is the light-
front portion of his eye
sensitive coating lining the
a large clot
inner two-thirds of the eye.
the base of the eye.
The
lens of the eye had to be
removed and its focusing
power replaced with a contact lens.
Inside his eye changes
It
converts
light to electrical
and transmits the
signals through the optic
signals
nerve to the brain.
Trauma
that tears the
retina, diabetes that
were occurring. Where
the large clot had been
removed, scar tissue was
Dr. Brent C.
beginning to form, slowly
Todd Canady.
may
Norman
discusses treatment with
Annual Report
9
result in leaking blood
vessels inside the eye, scarring and even opportunistic
infections such as
can detach
AIDS,
this vital
all
mem-
brane causing vision loss
and even blindness.
Todd's detachment likely
was caused by an incomplete penetrating injury to
his
eye that led to scarring,
Dr.
Norman
said.
Todd was taken back to
the operating room where
Dr. Norman tried to remove
When this
the scar tissue.
"The
was not possible, a large cut
was made in the retina to
free
it
from the scar tissue.
'
wanted
to try
'It
forms one
Norman
oil
said.
bubble
within the space normally
filled
The
with vitreous.
remainder of the eye is
filled with fluid produced by
the eye. The bubble sits on
reattached.
'I
less than that
oil is
of water," Dr.
That procedure, called a
retinotomy, meant some
method would have to be
used to get the retina
'
specific gravity of
silicone
and give
him
a definitive procedure,"
the surface of the fluid and
Dr.
Norman
provides a permanent, intra-
said.
So he used a laser
ocular tamponade. In other
to
words, you are putting
reattach the retina, then
filled
with silicone
oil,
holds the retina
a
substance which offers a
permanent tamponade
eye wall giving
it
ample time
More
sion to take place.'
Microscopic view shows
scar tissue which could
least, a
detachment,
traditional
i—
aph by Mike Stanley.
approaches to detached
retinas include penetrating
The
the eye with tiny instru-
ments
to administer
an
vitreous jelly has the
consistency of Jell-O.
It
not
is
silicone
fying into tiny bubbles over
is
the standard of
time, the
treatment of complicated
months.
retinal
Norman
the eye and exerts pressure
chance
oil is its
detachment," Dr.
there
around the eye to put
pressure on the eye wall
tends to
and even a second
time on complicated
detachments.
But in some cases, such
away from the surface of the
as Todd's, the need
and stop
eye actually causing retinal
detachment.
calls a
fluid
between the
from leaking
and the
retina
more complex,
ophthal-
tamponade.
At most, one type of gas
lasts one month; at the
10
is
replaced with
Norman
said.
Another advantage
only a temporary
it
of getting the retina
methods
when
fail
all
other
to hopefully
it
to the
similarity to the
"When
reattached
with a process
the eye
attached
for 10 to 15 years, Dr.
back of the eye. With
is
fills
for
will stay
it
method
retina against the wall, but
which the
is
about a 95 percent
is
as a tamponade, holding the
to
mologists can combine the
in
first
replace the jelly also works
freezing or laser technique
vitreous jelly that normally
the retina stays
jelly
The gas bubble used
are
six to nine
what the ophthalmologist
permanent
tamponade.
"We've got another
wall.
When detachments
if
emulsi-
attached for six months,
said.
Typically he will try
gas
Also,
oil
typically is
removed within
works as a sort of
shock absorber to protect
With age, the jelly
liquify and can pull
oil
care in this country for the
also
place.
of con-
ble disperses.
only nourishes the eye, but
to help hold the retina in
But because
forever.
a laser light that sticks the
where it belongs.
Other approaches are
placement of a tight-fitting
solid silicone rubber band
bubble
cerns about the
adhesive such as freezing or
retina back
oil
theoretically will last
reattached before the bub-
"Gas
a gas bubble.
The
gas lasts about
seven days. The theory
that the retina will have
lead to recurrent retinal
to heal.
in place,
thereby allowing the adhe-
that
holds the retina against the
in a
substance that mechanically
two-thirds of the eye
replaces.
looking into the eye through
a gas bubble,
it is
hard to see detail
silicone
oil, it's
kind of
in
the
just like
looking through a regular
can see perfectly.
prevent the eye from going
eye.
to an otherwise blind
can see
state.
new
I
detail.
I
can see
retinal breaks.
I
can
I
Norman performs
Dr.
intraocular surgery on Todd.
see whether the scar tissue
is
coming back or
gives
he
not.
the
me better control,"
In fact,
MCG's
with the
said.
The permanent nature
the silicone
of
has caused
oil
debate over whether the
oil is
experience
part of a
national study to
At
welcome
to doctors like Dr.
who must deal
indicate there
is
no prob-
addition
Norman
with compli-
cated detachments.
Some detached
yes.
attached.
'
The
in his
point,
is
retinas
hope
it's
'The retina
ter. If
functional
nothing
intact."
He and Todd concur
tool is a
Some early studies said
More recent studies
it
this point, the extra
damage by just being
eye for such a long period.
is
it
going to get bet-
doesn't, there
I
can do about
Todd's parents, Peggy
and Jake, say Todd has his
ups and downs. They know
too well how their son feels
the best they could have
about not realizing his
hoped
dream
for,
that
but the worst
scenario was that Todd
would have had
eye removed.
simply can't be reattached,
to have his
of flying. "I'd rather
be dead," Todd said bluntly.
So Todd refuses to give
up.
"I'm
still
but silicone
probably
sometimes," said Todd, an
vinced he
the
lessens that number, he
aggressive 23-year-old. "I
if
said.
want to get through this. I
want to get back to work.'
Yet he seems to have an
uncanny ability to acknowledge what has happened
and keep going.
month
the six- to nine-
interval
maximum
likely
has passed, Dr.
Norman
'
when its
said.
'It's just
another tool to
allow us to stabilize the eye,
to get the retina reattached.
What we
here
is
retinal
he
He
effectiveness
are dealing with
oil
has seen the
salvage at least
in
an eye that
oil
some
likely
vision
would
have progressed to a blind
state.
Todd
'
'I
is
a perfect example.
think that basically
we
the leading edge of
are dealing with an other-
detachment surgery,'
wise blinding disorder,' Dr.
said, noting that oil isn't
'
Norman
said.
At this point,
'
'At this point,
feel like the
I
$6
I
kind of
million
man.
get up in the morning, put
my eyedrops in, go about
I am going to do and
what
going to try to
get a license." He's con-
"It's depressing
lem, but support removal of
oil at
is
it.'
the results to date are not
with gas.
oil
the
injured left eye.
status of the eye, at this
compare
actually can cause retinal
in
Todd has some vision
only the
final solution,
progression of the science.
It
will be successful
he can be considered as
an individual, not as some
statistic.
"I believe people should
be judged on their own personal performance," Todd
said. How he will get those
who
do
grant pilots' licenses to
that,
he
is
not yet quite
you have an
obstacle, you have to try.'
sure. "If
'
M
—Toni Baker
Annual Report
11
Breaking
in Cancer
Ground
Research
|
Medical College
culture and in the
I
of Georgia neuro-
mice.
Jpgfl surgery resident
TNF-alpha combination
has discovered an
I
nude
The antibody and
proved especially effective
immunotherapeutic
in
destroying the tumors.
The two
approach to shrinking and
are pleased with
often curing malignant brain
their findings to date but
tumors
hope
in
laboratory mice.
Dr. Alfred Bowles,
who is
working on an American
Cancer Society fellowship
grant,
used antibodies com-
BRMS are a class of cytokines,
communication. This approach to treating usually
incurable brain tumors
Bowles
is
new
also
investigation to drug anti-
polypeptides released from cells to orchestrate intercellular
They
brain tumors.
intend to expand their
bined with substances called biological response modifiers
to shrink the tumors.
reproduce the
to
results in other types of
in
cancer research, Dr.
body conjugants, antibodies bonded
to certain molecules
so that they deliver the toxin to specific
'
'What's really encouraging for us
is
cells.
the concept of
monoclonal antibodies and biological response modifiers
seems
to
be working both
in vitro
and
in
vivo (in the
body)," Dr. Pantazis said.
said.
Brain tumors are generally treated with surgery and
radiation therapy, but a patient's
life
may be extended by
Phase One
clinical trials
may be no more than
These
away, Dr. Bowles said.
trials
a year
would involve assem-
sample of about 10 patients whose tumors have
only weeks or months, Dr. Bowles said.
bling a test
Bowles first studied the effects of BRMs on brain
tumors in vitro (in a test tube) and later on human brain
tumor cells grafted into nude (hairless) mice, also in vitro,
which are bred to accept the grafts.
Dr. Bowles used two types of BRMs: Tumor Necrosis
Factor-Alpha and Interferon-Gamma, both in tissue culture
and mouse models. After developing a tissue culture model
to measure cellular metabolic activity, he treated the
tumors with varying concentrations and combinations of
the BRMs. Both BRM types— particularly InterferonGamma were effective in limiting tumor growth in tissue
not responded to any other treatment and treating
Dr.
them
with immunotherapy to find an effective dosage. Phases
Two and Three would
among
test the efficacy of that
dosage
patients with tumors of varying severity.
Although the
trials
before the treatment
results are already
ment, Dr. Bowles
may
is
require
more than
work
15 years'
sufficiently refined, the initial
more promising than standard
treat-
said.
Drs. Cooley Pantazis and Victoria Samuels. Dr. Pantazis,
tumors were considered impossible
Now, even with surgery and radiation therapy, the
tumors are likely to return, Dr. Bowles said. It's difficult to
remove all the tumor without leaving behind some
cancerous cells. Surgeons may be wary of removing too
much brain tissue because it's hard to distinguish normal
from malignant cells, he said.
Immunotherapy may be the answer because it could be
injected directly into the remains of the tumor to kill
MCG associate professor of pathology,
residual cancer cells and simultaneously to avoid the toxic
—
culture.
Injecting the
BRMs into the
mice yielded even more
impressive results: the tumors not only stopped growing,
they also shrank with complete regression.
Dr.
Bowles then used
findings
from a separate study by
is
Dr. Bowles'
side effects of systemic treatments such as chemotherapy.
sponsor.
The study by
Drs. Pantazis and Samuels identified cer-
growth factors that support and maintain tumor
growth. Making use of the identification of these growth
factors, monoclonal (specific) antibodies against these
growth factors were used as treatment agents and were
tain
combined with the
12
Until recently, brain
to treat.
BRMs to treat the tumors in tissue
No
toxicity has resulted
from animal studies, and
this
would
be further investigated in the clinical trials.
Dr. Bowles has been working on his fellowship for about
a year with Dr. Pantazis and research assistant William
Wansley.
— Gwen Corinth
Benchmark
Dear Alumni and Friends
nally
How me
myself
SUm
to introduce
in
my new
capacity. In August
Telethon owe
generated revenue,
private support
from alumni,
friends, business
and industry
plays a big role in
MCG's
suc-
much
success to your
So take pride
of their
in
Many
your accom-
plishments and help us per-
cess. Private giving and
petuate the tradition of excel-
endowments have ensured an
lence.
institution that ranks as a
the specifics of making a dona-
the Medical College of Georgia
major health education center
tion to
and executive director of the
in
1 was
named
I
.
acting vice
president for development at
MCG Foundation,
John
T.
succeeding
Anderson.
to
me, I'm
is
most
new
on
a familiar face
to
'
MCG also depends on your
time and talent. Special fund-
Although the position
campus and
the Southeast.
of you.
raising events
such as the
Children's Miracle
Network
If
you're curious about
MCG,
in detail.
efforts.
read the
thanks for your con-
tinued support.
I
look forward
working with each of you.
to
Very cordially yours,
article,
'Medical College of Georgia
Gift-Giving Explained," in this
edition of Medical College of
Georgia Today.
Commonly
asked questions are answered
Bruce L. Howerton
Acting Vice President
for Development
I
MCG eight years ago as
MCG
joined
the accountant for the
Foundation and was promoted
to director of
1986.
I
planned giving
in
have an undergraduate
degree and master's degree
in
accounting from Augusta
College.
My new position is but one
MCG. As you
know, Dr. Francis J. Tedesco,
of the changes at
formerly the acting dean of the
MCG School of Medicine,
named
was
the school's president
in July.
I'm excited about the
challenges and opportunities
that lie ahead. Dr. Tedesco is a
dynamic and capable leader.
He
envisions great things for
our institution— things such as
a free-standing children's
medical center— and we have
no doubt he can transform
dreams into
Enthusiasm
it's
realities.
is
running high and
Incentives for Excellence
possible by your contributions.
For while
great to be involved with
MCG receives finan-
tinguished positions through-
out their tenure
at
MCG at such a progressive
he quality and reputa-
point in the school's
tion of the
development.
College of Georgia
private donations to fund pro-
inspire colleagues
depend on
grams
to excellence.
Of course, you're
too,
and
involved,
in a pivotal role.
The
to attract
Medical
its ability
cial
assistance from the state
government,
and retain excellent
it still
that bring
it
relies
on
distinction.
Endowed chairs and profesmay be established at
cost of $250,000. These
honored
The
faculty
members
MCG include the
professors and students.
sorships
ships at
50 percent of the
Endowed
a
Ellington Charles
support
chairs,
endowed
and students
chairs and professor-
state of Georgia provides about
total
MCG. By
their very presence, these
Hawes Chair
for educational activities at
professorships and scholar-
funds provide supplemental
in Pediatrics,
MCG and about 30 percent of
ships provide a decisive incen-
income
Greenblatt Professorship of
the funds for hospital and clinic
tive for talented faculty
operations. Along with inter-
students, an incentive
and
made
for outstanding profes-
the Robert B.
sors. Recipients of chairs and
Endocrinology and the
professorships retain their dis-
Lou Franklin Glover and Katie
Sallie
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Getzen Mealing Professorship
of Medicine.
We
are raising
funds currently to establish
honor Edgar R. Pund
and William H. Moretz.
chairs to
In some cases, named
endowments are used for pur-
poses other than supplement-
The
ing salaries.
Hames
Professorship
tice
Curtis G.
Lectureship and
Family Prac-
in
sponsors a network of
research studies oriented
toward the patient as a
A
person.
faculty
total
member is
designated to convene a con-
sortium of 18 to 20 physicians
from across the country. This
group meets once a year to
develop research programs
directed toward family physicians in training at family practice
residency programs.
The
rising cost of medical
education has
become
a seri-
ous impediment to many of our
best students. To remain competitive with other medical col-
leges in the United States,
we
are striving to increase our
funding for scholarships.
offers a
number
MCG
of scholarships
now. In one case, an anony-
mous donor has provided
$5,000 each for three medical
sudents and one dental student
a year.
For more information about
chairs, professorships
scholarships at
MCG,
and
contact
David McKay, 404/721-4699.
Renovation Progressing
More
than $800,000
of a $1.2 million
been
committed toward
goal has
the renovation of the Old
Medical College building. Work
is
expected
to
summer and
begin by early
will
span about a
year, according to architect
Norman
Askins.
Final plans for the renovation
were approved
in
January by
the Old Medical College Renovation
Committee made up of
III, Whitney C.
John C. Hagler
O'Keeffe, and William B.
Mullins,
Plans
M.D.
call for
um is dedicated to
as a historic landmark.
The main room,
library
and
courtyard have been reserved
adapting the
by donors.
The main room
memory
is
Dr. William
seminar room may
still
be
Henry Goodrich, dean from
reserved. For more informa-
1923 to 1932. The other
tion about the renovation
reserved areas
ongoing fund-raising campaign
will
be formally
and
153-year-old building for use as
dedicated to the
Dr. William H. Doughty, dean
named by the donors.
The foyer, rotunda, con-
contact the Medical College of
a continuing education center
while preserving
from 1910 to 1923. The
ference room, parlor and
721-4001.
14
its
integrity
of
solari-
Georgia Foundation
at
404/
nificant
ing an expenditure from those
But we are constantly trying
Gift-Giving Explained
the educational programs,
funds. Annually, the Founda-
point out other alternative gifts
research and
tion is audited by an indepen-
to individuals.
dent certified public accounting
property
firm which reviews those
for a charitable gift.
f
i
impact on the quality of
MCG.
early every graduate
of
of an institution of
difference.
clinical activities
truly
It
makes
a
processes.
higher education has
been approached at
one time or another to give
money to his alma mater.
Deciding to give
a personal
is
how
decision and deciding
give
sometimes confusing.
is
Many
to
giving opportunities are
Q.
How
do you make a
The
gift is
is
easiest way to
through the
dation. This entity
lished in 1954 to receive,
manage and administer
of the Medical College of
The Foundation
Georgia. Fund-raising projects
gifts for
MCG.
administers
include restoration of the Old
and
Medical College building; the
division of the college.
Children's Medical Center;
donor's
enhancement of endowments
like the Pund Fund, the
Moretz Chair, the Ellison
to
is
always a need. Hopefully, there
is
a project that
gift
department and
any one of these.
The Foun-
acknowledgement suitable for
tax records which signifies the
amount, date and designation
Howerton, acting vice president for development, helps
how to make gifts to
and how to get the most
How
the
A. That
is
tion
gift,
a
the Founda-
commitment
use the funds according
Q.
Why
give to the Medical
donor's intention.
to the
The Founda-
tion notifies the appropriate
college officials that funds have
MCG have
historically provided a
programs
of excellence to the
and
margin
activities of the school.
endowment to be a
we invest under
professional management and
we only spend the investment
income from that gift. This
ensures a permanent source of
funding support to the program
These
One
the Old Medical
been donated for specific purposes. Those individuals agree
to the terms of the gift and
must provide supporting
documentation when request-
Funds there
will
spent to pay for those renova-
get a larger
number
Real estate makes a great
gift. It is
generally very easy to
transfer and very marketable.
life
insurance have
become extremely popular in
recent years. What makes
them so popular is that a donor
can know that he is providing a
amount of support to
The improvements
particular
the school.
the insurance products
themselves have also made the
gifts
more
attractive.
What kinds of properties
make good gifts?
A. The most simple and common way to make a gift is by
Q.
What about
giving through a
Q.
writing a check and
will
will?
A.
An easy way
of capital to the
make
to
a gift
MCG Founda-
tion is through one's will. All
I
think
it
continue to be that way.
that's required
is
drafting the
and naming bequest of
will
either a specific amount, a per-
centage amount or a residual
value of the estate to the
MCG
gifts
Foundation.
during the college's struggling
days kept the college
alive.
Augusta citizens raised almost
Q. Will
$42,000
help
1910 to help stave
the
MCG Foundation
manage an alumnus'
off the closing of the school.
assets?
Grants from the Carnegie and
A. Certain donors want to
Rockefeller Foundations
make
fol-
a
donation but need the
lowed shortly thereafter. So
income
giving has had quite an impact
to donate.
want
donor can give
money to the Foundation and
receive a specific income for
the rest of his life. This is good
for those on fixed incomes who
use it as a supplemental retire-
on the early history of the
college.
More
recently,
endowments
have been created which help
attract
and support
distin-
guished professors, develop
3 ,.
VVOÔOT
of the asset they
A
ment income. And
it
money
allows tax
scholarship funds for worthy
savings
students and
ferred during their lifetime.
like
initiate
programs
the Children's Medical
Center.
I
think
it
is fair
to say
that charitable gifts have
and
will
of
stock each year for
it is
apparent that significant
in
Second, the
those reasons.
in
be
gift.
tion costs.
'The History of the Medical
College of Georgia,"
is
We
tion.
gifts of
Gifts of
also receive gifts from
funding for projects.
provide a deduction
will
donor does not have to recognize a gain on that apprecia-
designated by the donor.
Having read Phinizy Spalding's
'
con-
that
project.
Inc.?
and friends of
cost of the
invests
College of Georgia building
to
College of Georgia Foundation,
A. Contributions from alumni
it
We
example
makes
the donor can deduct
rather than spends.
research, equipment, etc.
a restricted
it
gift.
receives gifts which
a very important
MCG
in value,
very tax-wise
a
greater than the out-of-pocket
When a donor makes
question.
makes
This
take the form of scholarships,
gift?
explain
benefit from them.
the Foundation use
has increased
the stock rather than his cost.
We
will
donor
than six months and that stock
First,
donors which provide current
Q.
a
What exactly is an
endowment?
A. The Foundation often
gift.
appeals to you.
This interview with Bruce L.
If
the current fair-market value of
gift
can be restricted
Any appreciated
wonderfully suited
is
has owned a stock for more
dling of these funds.
sider an
A
dation will provide an
of the
tuents' confidence in our han-
Q.
charita-
almost every program
activity,
determined by our consti-
was estab-
ble gifts on behalf of
funding, for which there
the
MCG Foun-
being presented to the alumni
Chair, etc.; and scholarship
make
of the
program
college's fund-raising
gift to
MCG?
A.
The success
to
had
continue to have a sig-
if
the
is
trans-
Sometimes, we can increase
income by managing the
their
asset, possibly eliminating an
erosion of their principle.
Annual Report
15
Expenditures, and Other Changes
Year Ended June 30, 1988
Summary Statement of Current Funds Revenues,
(With Comparative Figures for 1987)
1988
Educational and General
Unrestricted
Auxiliary
Enterprises
Restricted
1987
TATA T
TOTAL
TOTAL
Revenue
General Operations
Resident Instruction
Student Tuition and Fees
$
State Appropriations
Indirect Cost Recoveries
4,663,753.00
59,356,513.00
1.816,787.32
$
$
f
i
4,663,753.00
59,356,513.00
4,640,024.60
56 "?66 278 00
1,816,787.32
1.957.893.38
167,804.02
102.709.48
167.804.02
Other Sources
Departmental Sales and Services
Revenues for Program Support
Less: Quasi-Revenue
Sponsored Operations
$
5,009,724.60
5,009,724.60
(1,897,065.84)
(1.897,065.84)
4,349,649.89
(1I
\
628 751 i)l
34)
,U60,
1
•
'
1
.
1
Federal Grants and Contracts
7,744,933.55
7.744.933.55
7,404,404.32
State Grants and Contracts
2,833,873.61
2.833.873.61
485,379.52
485,379.52
3.230,717.09
446,796.28
13,071,786.73
13.071,786.73
12,198,376.68
106,431.44
106,431.44
120,818.84
30,609,412.00
89.261.303.18
30,609.412.00
89,261,303.18
29,438,910.00
79,878,172.45
8,392.55
8,392.55
50,246.03
2,999,012.64
2,782,819.81
(573,731.26)
(548,464.62)
5,196,155.00
5.049.233.29
5,533,945.00
5,533,945.00
5,447,886.00
356.959.00
356,959.00
338,350.00
2.044,725.72
2,044,725.72
1,640,390.90
620,455.46
694,191.68
Local Grants and Contracts
Private Grants and Contracts
Endowment Income
Hospital
General Operations
Sales and Services of Educational Activities
Other Sources
Departmental Sales and Services
Revenues for Program Support
Less: Quasi-Revenue
Sponsored Operations
State Grants and Contracts
Family Practice Residency Program
General Operations
2,999,012.64
(573,731.26)
-
5.196.155.00
Desegregation Program
General Operations
Georgia Radiation Therapy Center
General Operations
1,375.00
Sales and Services of Educational Department
Auxiliary Enterprises
Student Housing
Food Services
Stores and Shops
Other Service Units
1,658,013.75
622,335.37
585,149.09
1,528,241.65
1,502,382.37
233,168,159.54
217,059,148.28
14,803.376.05
8,151,093.42
61,543,856.63
8,151,093.42
6.738,158.74
42.826.67
6,780,985.41
58,300,666.98
8,160,861.50
6,750,494.12
1.193.923.11
8,058.37
1,201,981.48
1,075,886.52
6,821,925.59
703,926.14
7,525,851.73
6,514,967.20
620,455.46
694,191.68
1.399,403.87
1.658,013.75
TOTAL REVENUE
199,357,534.93
29,438,559.85
46.740.480.58
1,399,403.87
4,372,064.76
Expenditures
Educational and General
Resident Instruction
Instruction
Research
Academic Support
Student Services
Institutional Support
Operation and Maintenance of Plant
Scholarships and Fellowships
7,643,537.11
7,481,991.49
533,124.20
533,124.20
449,924.00
5.196.155.00
112,101,830.41
7,064,884.95
101,630,332.65
8,629.296.72
8,629,296.72
8,140,205.48
5.495.400.69
5,495.400.69
5,332,058.69
7,643.537.11
Hospital
Patient Care
106.905.675.41
7,064,884.95
Hospital Support
6,712,721.39
Family Practice Residency Program
Instruction
86,000.00
Desegregation Program
Instruction
257,552.97
99,361.00
257,552.97
99,361.00
242,939.29
1,887,510.69
157,196.00
1,887,510.69
1,514,613.53
157.196.00
127,598.34
616,649.06
874,357.91
603,687.40
1,288.570.16
1,416,907.51
95,352.67
Georgia Radiation Therapy Center
Instruction (Patient Care)
Auxiliary' Enterprises
Student Housing
616,649.06
874,357.91
1,288,570.16
Food Services
Stores and Shops
Other Service Units
1,303,733.25
li*y,bo4,yUo.5b
fc-xcess ot
4,Uoo,oIU. Jo
jy,4oo,55y.M5
Lapsed Surplus Returned— Prior Year
Provision for Reserves
(99,198.50)
1,094,303.32
<o. /y
216,567,342.91
O
491,805.37
1 1
99,198.50
348,218.56
ENDING FUND BALANCES
1,303,733.25
Zoo,ioo,
Revenue Over Expenditures
Beginning Fund Balance, Adjusted
Adjustments Other Than State Audit
16
!}>
19,378.07
$
90,228.00
$
835,830.83
/
,joj.
/
22,433.12
121,631.62
59,570.40
3,386.23
351,604.79
197,390.42
(99,198.50)
(100,072.82)
(218,603.23)
(199,225.16)
95,970.50
i5
186,198.50
(529,643.12)
$
119,050.25
President's Club
Mrs. Grace
Dr.
Members
of the Medical College of
Georgia President
life-
time contributions of $50,000 or more
Dr. and Mrs.
and
have achieved permanent membership in
this
Hawes
giving club. We acknowledge with deep
Gordon W. Jackson
(Virginia)
Estate of Lynn Griffin Johnson
Mrs.
Mr. Gerry H. Achenbach
(Sushila)
Mae
Lillie
Mealing
Dr.
(Lueilla)
Mr. and Mrs. W. Clay Adamson (Darcel)
Dr. and Mrs. Marshall B. Allen
Harry
B.
O'Rear. President
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry' G. Purvis
Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. A. Clark
(Dorothy)
Amos (Elena)
L. Amos Sr.
Robinson
Estate of Dr. Horace D. Smith
Emeritus, and Mrs.
Dr. William L. Barton
Dr. and Mrs. W.
Dr. Francis
J.
Dr. and Mrs.
Clark Case (Ola)
I
Dr. and Mrs. A. Bleakley
Gen
Steinfeld
Sr.
Mrs.
Amy
Tedesco, President, and
Zumbro (Pennie)
Drs. Taher Abdel
M.
El
Gammal and
Betty Sue Brooks
The following members of the President 's
Club
at the
Founder's Level have made
We greatly appreciate
D.
Dr. and Mrs.
French
Marvin
F.
Mary Anne
III
and
Dr. and Mrs. Curtis G.
Hames
Mansberger Jr.
Drs. E.
Dr.
Herman
F.
Flanigin
James and Martha McCranie
and Mrs. Virgle W. McEver Jr.
(Amy)
Mr. and Mrs. William
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Fleischer
Dr.
McGowan Freeman Jr.
Morris
III
and Mrs. William B. Mullins (Ann)
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Nathan (Muriel)
Drs.
James
and Mary H. O'Quinn
L.
Mrs. Nora Pascarella
Mrs. Louise Peacock
Don Gambrell
Dr. and Mrs. R.
S.
(Sissy)
Mrs. Jane Pidcock
Glen E. Garrison (Mary)
Dr. and Mrs.
Lamar
Dr. and Mrs. B.
(Martha)
Donald D. Gold
Mrs. Dorothy Royal Gower
Mrs. Florence Pratt
Dr. Louie H. Griffin
Dr. and Mrs.
J.
Jr.
Dr.
J.
Robert Rinker (Minnie)
and Mrs. Beverly B. Sanders Jr.
(Charlene)
Daniel Hanks Jr.
Dr. and Mrs.
F.
Hunt Sanders (Kim)
Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd B.
Dr. and Mrs. Billy S.
Hardman
Dr. and Mrs. Milford B.
(Estelle)
Hatcher
(Marion)
Dr. Melvin L.
Pilcher (Miriam)
Dr. and Mrs. Winford H. Pool Jr.
Schnuck Jr.
(Barbara)
Dr. and Mrs.
George
P.
Sessions
(Martha)
Haysman and
Mrs. Roberta Kamine-Haysman
The photographs on pages 17
Dr. and Mrs. W. Jackson Athajr.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Eugene Holley
(Vivian)
Mims
(Kitty)
Jr.
C.
Aultman
Wayne
D. Beveridge
Dr. and Mrs. Floyd C. Jarrell (Jody)
Dr. and Mrs.
Lawson
C.
Johnson
(Sara E.)
Dr.
raising activities the Medical
College of Georgia sponsored in
(Louise)
Dr. and Mrs.
Harold Harrison
4-
Dr. and Mrs. Arlie R.
through 23 illustrate various fund-
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bandy (Aggie)
(Betty)
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Lankford
Dr. L.D. Hicks
Dr.
Tyler Hagler, M.D.
Langford
(Dorothy)
(Ellen)
Felker Jr.
and Mrs.
III
F.
Dr. Dariush Heidary
L. (Robert B.) Greenblatt
Mr. John C. Hagler
James
Mrs. Dorotha Ahlquist
C. Goldstein (Rita)
School of Nursing
more.
the generous sup-
port of these individuals.
Miss E. Louise Grant. Dean Emeritus.
J.
M.)
(Thelma)
Dr.
lifetime contributions of $10,000 or
(Lillian)
Dr.
M.D.
(Adeline)
Dr. and Mrs. W. Stewart Flanagin
Gwen
Sr..
C. Derrick Jr.
(Mary Louise)
Founder's Level
Gordon Davis Jr.
(Francis Marion)
Mrs.
Howard
Dr. and Mrs. Chenault W. Hailey
(Willie E.)
Dr. and Mrs. H.
Norman
Dr. Fort
Dr.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Crockett
Dr.
Harry E. Dawson
Dr. and Mrs. Peter G. Gilbert (Suzy)
G. Warren
Dr. and Mrs. G. Lionel
Gane)
Dr.
Gan)
C. Collins
(Caroline)
Mrs. Vera C. Wardlow
Chandler
and Mrs. William
(Helen)
Mrs. Luann Tedesco
(Estelle)
Dr.
Mrs. Betty Friedman
Mrs. Mildred T. Stevens
Herman Brooks
Dr. and Mrs.
Dr. and Mrs. A.
Dr. Jesse L. Steinfeld, President
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Berney Qoyce)
Mr. George H. Lane
Mr. Roscoe Coleman
(Lucille)
(Noma Louise)
(Olivia)
The Joseph Korn Family
Dr. and Mrs.
Gune)
Eugene Kennedy
Mr. and Mrs. Cassius M. Clay Goan H.)
Dr. Linda A. Ellis
Emeritus, and Mrs. Charlotte O'Rear
T.
Ms. Sarah Turner Butler
(Adelia
Emeritus, and Mrs. Laura Moretz
and Mrs.
(Mary)
Dr. and Mrs.
Dr. William H. Moretez, President
Dr. and Mrs. Russell A. Acree Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William
Mahesh
Dr. and Mrs. Virendra
Dr.
(LoisH.)
Mrs. Corrie Ann Maxwell
appreciation their generous support.
Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Bohler
(Carolyn)
Club hare made
's
S.
and Mrs. C. Goodrich Henry
and Mrs. John Paul Jones (Edna)
1987-88.
If
interested in participat-
ing in future projects, contact the
MCG
Volunteer Center by calling
404/721-3301.
^ Mm
Annual Report
17
Dr. and Mrs. William C. Shirley Sr.
Sam
Dr.
Lamar
Dr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Margie
(Bess)
J.
Dr. Scott A. Gasiorek
Mrs. Frances
Dr.
S. Starling
Dean Steward (Martha)
Phung Thi Tho
Dr. and Mrs.
Render Turner
J.
Gregory Gay
Mr. Z. Walter Granting,
Dr. and Mrs. Hollis D.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Dr. and Mrs.
Green
P.
Drs. Charles H. and Betty B. Wray
S.
Hooks
Hughes
Henry
Dr. and Mrs.
The following members of the President
's
Pelham
S.
Jordan Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert H.
Still Jr.
Gane)
Georgia Hospital Association
(Anne)
Glaxo, Incorporated
and Mrs. Daniel
B. Sullivan
Dr. and Mrs. Luther
Van C. Knowles (Wesley)
Dr. Hiroshi Toyohara
Dr.
T.
Avret (Stella)
and Mrs. C. Robert Baisden (Helen)
Dr.
Dr. and Mrs. F.
and Mrs. William B. Bates
Dr.
Dr. and Mrs. Estol R. Belflower (Beth)
Berg (Evelyn)
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris E. Binkley (Alice)
Bowen (Miriam)
Boyd
Dr. and Mrs. William S.
and Mrs. Edwin D. Bransome
Jr.
(Mary Jo)
Henry H. Butterworth Jr.
(Evelyn)
Carson
Dr. and Mrs. Nelson S. Carswell
Dr.
Matthew (Marie)
Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Mays
Lamar
Dr. and Mrs.
S.
McGinnis Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Carter (Betty)
M. Cheney
Dr.
Spurgeon W. Clark
Dr.
James R. Clay
Mr. and Mrs. David
McKay
McRae
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Daniels
Gautam Dasgupta
Denmark and
Dr.
J.
Digby (Mary)
Edeniield
Mr. Donald Ellison
Gordon
D.
Allergy and
Jr.
(Mildred)
Harvey M.
Newman
(June)
Assurance
III
Foundation
Patterson-Barclay Memorial Foundation
John E. and Aliese Price Foundation,
Corporation
Incorporated
Procter and Gamble
Company
American Hoechst Corporation
Richmond County Jaycees
Augusta West Dance Guild
Richmond County Medical Society
Department Store
Bankers
Dr. L. Joseph O'Brien
Barham-Calhoun Memorial Fund
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Guy
Schering Corporation
Lynn
L.
Ogden (Karen)
W. Oliver Jr.
Owings
Corporation
Rich's
Bernard Memorial Oncology
G.D. Searle and Company
Fund
I.D. Shapiro
I.
Boehringher Ingelheim Pharmaceutical.
Patterson Jr.
F.
Edward Payne Jr. Gean)
James W.
Pilcher
Jr.
Jr.
Mary
Allen Lindsey Branan Foundation
C.
Pope (Susan)
Reimer
Goyce)
Mark Ruplinger
Dr. and Mrs. Milton B. Satcher Jr. (Ann)
Beckman Corporation
South Augusta Ambucs
Dorothy Mustin Buttolph Trust Fund
Southern Frozen Foods
Calloway Foundation. Incorporated
S
Chambers. Mabry, McClelland and
E.R. Squibb and Sons, Incorporated
Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Citizens and Southern National
Civitan International
Clarks
Hill
& P Grading Company
Standard Motor Products
Brooks
James
Smith, Kline and French Laboratories
Smithkline
Incorporated
Mr. and Mrs. E.O. Perry Goy)
T.
First
Biomet, Incorporated
Dr. and Mrs.
Mr.
Jr.
Life
Dr. Stephen A. Noller
Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan E.
Flanders
Orthopaedic Associates of Augusta P.A.
Osmond
of Georgia
Association
Gail)
Dr. and Mrs.
Immunology Society
American Financial Services
Jr.
P.C.
Olympus Corporation
Acuson
(Martha)
Dr. Alva H. Faulkner
& Company, Incorporated
Dow Pharmaceuticals
Ohmeda
Company
American Family
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Esola
18
Merck
Nephrology Association of Macon,
Myers
Dr. and Mrs.
F.
Medtronic. Incorporated
A.B. Beverage
Mulkns Gane)
Drs. Robert G. and Lois T. Ellison Sr.
Dr. and Mrs. John G. Etheridge (Anita)
Nursing Administration
Jr.
National Hills Lions Club
Dr. and Mrs. Winford H. Pool
James
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Wofford
Faculty Wives Club
and groups
Moore Jr.
Mr. Mark Moran and
Dr. Jeannie H. Moran
Dr. P. Steven Mote
Dr.
(Margaret)
Dr. and Mrs.
Roy Witherington (Louise)
Miller
Mr. Charles
and Mrs. Byron H. Dunn (Betty)
Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Ohlen Wilson (Martha)
Dr. and Mrs.
J.
Dr. David A.
Bowen Devore
J.
Dr. and Mrs.
Pharmaceuticals
Merrell
(Dolly)
Mr. Robert Devore and
Donald
W. Talbert Williams (Bett)
Dr. Frank
Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Daughtry Denmark
M. Maxwell Trust
Metropolitan Foundation, Incorporated
Dr. and Mrs.
Dr. J.W. Richard Davis
Dr. and Mrs.
Dr. and Mrs.
Dr. John R. WyantJr.
(Achsah)
(Debra G.)
Gilbert
Mead Johnson
Jr.
Miles Laboratories, Incorporated
(Mary
Dr. and Mrs. Morris N. Dalton (Billie)
Dr. Margaret B.
Curtis Williams
The
Foundations, businesses
Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Nesbit
Dr. Leila A.
Marion Laboratories, Incorporated
Wike (Candy)
Meyer
Dr.
Cunningham
Livingston Foundation, Incorporated
F.
Dr. and Mrs. Jule C. Neal
Mr. John
Sr.
(Rose)
Mr. Thomas H. Coward
Dr.
Ray and Elizabeth Lee Foundation
Mark Whitehead
Dr. Carol
Dr. and Mrs. David E.
III
Queen
Institute
Langford Middle School
(Sandra)
Mr. H.C. Coward Jr.
Dr. Joseph R.
J.
International Dairy
Kiwanis Club of Augusta
and Mrs. Richard B. Weeks
Dr. and Mrs. Charles C.
(Darlyne G.)
Hinman Dental Meeting
P.
Hqechst-Roussel Pharmaceutical
The Jobst
Bruce D. Walley
(Dot)
(Iona)
Mr. and Mrs. John Mathewes
Thomas
Institute of International Education
C. Wakefield
Dr. William B.
Jr.
(Betty Ann)
Mr. Eudine
Van Giesenjr.
Dr. and Mrs. Sylvester N.
Dr. William K. Briones
Dr. and Mrs.
E.
(Sylvia)
Dr. Joseph T. Watlington
Dr.
Herzog Foundation.
Hutchens Company
Kay
Dr. and Mrs. C.
III
(Julia)
Dr. and Mrs. Frank R. Briggs
George
Turner
(Katharine)
(Catherine)
(Janet)
Dr. Larry
(Jane)
Martin
Dr. and Mrs. Wallace D.
(Elizabeth)
Dr.
Madry Jr.
J.
Incorporated
Hewlett Packard CompanyJ.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Waller (Hazel)
Lesher Jr. (Cathy)
Dr. and Mrs. Jack L.
J.
Dr.
Dr.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Martin
(Rhonda)
Dr. and Mrs. John B.
(Shirley)
(Patricia)
Dr. Frank
III
Dr. and Mrs. Richard
(Gail)
Leon A. Leonard
Dr. and Mrs. John G.
Donald Bass Gane)
M. Thomas Jr.
Heirs of Hattie Pund
Dr. and Mrs.
Dr. and Mrs. Albert G. Leroyjr.
Dr. Charles A. Albers
Edwin
(Willa)
and Mrs. Michael N. Laslie
Dr. and Mrs.
(Elizabeth)
Dr. and Mrs.
Lamb
(Martha Ann)
Dr. and Mrs. William C. Acton
Carl
Jr.
Gane)
Dr. and Mrs. Charles C.
Educational Foundation
Georgia Association of Pathologists
Hans J. Knieriem
(Ingeborg)
of Atlanta
(Susan)
Dr.
Dr. and Mrs.
Bank
Union Bank of Augusta
Still Jr.
Dr. and Mrs.
generosity.
First
Jr.
M.
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph
bership through their gifts of $1,000 or
It is
Staples
P.
Georgia Academy of Family Physicians
Dr. Daniel B. Terry
acknowledge their
Federated Department Stores
Foundation
(Mildred)
(Patricia)
of Textron,
Incorporated
First National
James J. Kirkland (Anne)
to
Smallwood
Smith Jr.
P.
Dr. and Mrs.
our pleasure
Exchange Club of Augusta
III
Graham Smith Jr.
Club have attained Partner Level mem-
more during fiscal period 1987-88.
Simpson
S.
Dr. and Mrs. Frank H. Stelling (Donna)
Dr. Michael C. Jones
Company
Federal Paper Board, Incorporated
Dr. William
III
(Martha)
Partner Level
J.
Pharmaceutical
E-Z-Go Division
Dr. and Mrs.
Dr. and Mrs. William D.
James
Dr. and Mrs. H. Wilder Smith (Kathy)
(Carolyn)
(Doris)
Eli Lilly
(Mary)
Hogan
Dr.
Dr. and Mrs. Vendie H.
Thomas J. Yeh
Elan Pharmaceutical
Jr.
E. Sikes
Dr. and Mrs. Henry' C.
(Frances)
Mr. Weldon Wyatt
Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas
Dr. and Mrs.
(Elaine)
Thomas
Jack Eckerd Corporation
(Pauline)
(Cinda Jo)
Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hill (jana)
Wong
Phillip
and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
Evans Middle School
Dr. and Mrs.
Hall
P.
Dr. Patricia L. Hartlage
(Elizabeth)
Sigman
(Carol)
Mr. Lawrence Hartlage and
Crawford and Company
Eastman Kodak Company
Harry C. Sherman (Ann)
Dr. and Mrs.
Jr.
Dr. David
Mr. and Mrs.
Schilling Jr.
Max
Dr. Z. Walter Granting Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Weiner (Lynn)
Witham
Coulter Electronics, Incorporated
W.
Dr. and Mrs. Robinson
Mr. O.L. Shaffner
Mrs. Jeanette M. Vallotton
Dr. and Mrs. A. Calhoun
Columbia Nitrogen Company
(Sarah)
(Martha)
(Dorothy)
Elwyn A. Saunders
Dr. and Mrs.
(Marceline)
Mrs. Linda G. Spooner
Dr. Sandra
(Sally)
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Galloway (Anne)
A. Singal
Dr. and Mrs. W.
Fleming
L.
Frank
Bassmasters
Club Car, Incorporated
Bank
Sunny 105-WZNY
Team Toyota
Tomco Auto Products
Trust Company Bank of Augusta
The Upjohn Company
Deborah Wendel Foundation
Hal] and
James
West Point-Pepperell Foundation,
T. Barenie, D.D.S.
William E. Barfieldjr..
D. Douglas Barnard
Incorporated
Jr.
Rodney Bartholomew, M.D.
J.B. White, Incorporated
Philip
Wife-Saver, Incorporated
Edwin
Women of Georgia Power Company,
CSRA
Glenn Hughes
James
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
M.D.
C. Bartlett,
M.D.
Bartlett,
L. Becton,
M.D.
M.D.
Murray Allen Freedman, M.D.
Larry V. Carson, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Freeman
M.Gary
William
Carter,
M.D.
Sidney A. Funk, M.D.
Charlie's Auto Parts
Octavia Garlington, M.S. M.I.
Lewis
Chisholm, M.D.
F.
B.
Hershel Felton Cofer, M.D.
Robert
Arthur Gelbart, M.D.
Genentech
The Georgia Power
Grady E. Black, M.D.
Allen Costoff, Ph.D.
Peter G. Gilbert. M.D.
Coulter Immunology Division
Donald Martin Gilner, M.D.
Russell L. Counts, M.D.
Pamela Givens
or more during fiscal year 1987-88. It
Floyd E. Blivenjr., M.D.
William
with gratitude that we recognize these
Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd.
Deknatel Company
donors.
Gerald Wayne Bohanan. M.D.
James Edward Dempsey
Blissit,
C.S.S. Border,
Donald C. Abele. M.D.
Charles
Hans Werner Adams, M.D.
John
M.D.
M.D.
Emory
Guy J.
Bohler,
M.D.
Boineau. M.D.
P.
Talmadge Arton Bowden Jr. M.D.
E.I.
Henry Man-in Althisar Sr., M.D.
American Academy of Dermatology
Mac Andrew Bowman. M.D.
E.I.
James
Anaquest,
Robert L. Brand
Asbell,
George Thomas
M.D.
Astin,
M.D.
Augusta Jaycees
M Braden, M.D.
Eagle Asset Management,
&
&
Co..
Co., S.C.
Inc.
Thomas
W.C.
Charles Fredrick Brown, M.D.
EPICS
Charles William Brown, M.D.
Carlos L. Esquivia-Munoz. M.D.
M. Brown, M.D.
Brown Jr., M.D.
Kenneth Harvey
Farrar,
D.M.D.
Edward
Rodney M. Browne. M.D.
RichardS. Field, M.D.
Thomas
Thomas Morgan Browne, M.D.
Michael
Clyde A. Burgamy, M.D.
Clifford A. Avrettjr.
Tillie
P Byars
H. Caddell, M.D.
Chuck Campbell's Wallpapers
Hillel Finck,
M.D.
Guill,
M.D.
Arthur Ronnie Hagen. M.D.
EarlR. Feringa, M.D.
Buhl, D.D.S.
M.D.
M.D.
Frank Dempsey Guillebeau, M.D.
Walter J.
F.
Lafayette Griffin,
Griffin,
Margaret Frank
Division
M.D.
Joe L. Griffeth, M.D.
M.D.
William
M.D.
Du Pont De Nemours
Pont De Nemours
Lois Taylor Ellison,
Vickie
North Carolina
Woodrow Goss, M.D.
Frank Bartow Graham III. M.D.
Robert C. Grant, M.D.
Charles Gray Green Sr., M.D.
Charles R. Green, M.D.
Mack Varnedoe Greer. M.D.
William E. Gregory Jr.. M.D.
Edward Bromberg, M.D.
Richard
Jr.,
Jr.
Du
James
,
Co., Augusta
Samuel Melvin Goodrich, M.D.
M.S.
M.D.
Augusta Swim League
E. Bailey
M.D.
0. Ellegood.
III,
Augusta Association of Young Children
Thomas
Sr.,
Thelma Drake
,
Inc.
Inc.
Isaac Goodrich,
Robert Sanford Donner. M.D.
James Larry Boss, M.D.
Jimmy Robert
Glaxo
Denis, M.D.
Charles H. Dickson
David Lee Booker. M.D.
William Nick Agostas ,M.D.
Robert Hoyt Anderson Jr., M.D.
Andrew Nickles-Logging
Murray Charles Arkin, M.D.
Arrow Automotive Industries
Lamar Cousins, M.D.
Jonathon Glen Dewald. M.D.
Amelia Anne Alderman, M.D.
Stuart Anderson, M.T., M.S.
Garrison, D.M.D.
Robert Comer
Wiley Singleton Black, M.D.
Ann
F.
Corometrics Medical Systems
M.D.
Jr.,
Joseph A.
Inc.
M.D.
JackH. Cohen, M.D.
The following members of the
Wish— Frances Friedman
Garrison,
F.
Glen E. Garrison, M.D.
Beech' Island Bingo
Aesculapius Club have contributed $250
Project
Alton
Cochran, M.D.
James William Bennett, M.D.
Vincent Finval Bergquist
is
Emmett Freeman, M.D.
Kurt Miller Chambless, M.D.
Emerson
Robert Reppard Bennett, D.M.D.
Aesculapius Club
Gerald E. Caplan, M.D.
L. Hall Jr.,
M.D.
Gerald Hancock, M.D.
Rosalie B. Haraszti,
M.D.
Margaret Holloway Fitch, M.D.
James R. Hattaway, M.D.
Waldo E. Floyd Jr.. M.D.
R.K. Haugen, M.D.
John Ed Fowler, M.D.
Preston Pearle Hawkins, M.D.
Ned M. Franco. M.D.
Gary Stephen Hayes. M.D.
Martin
J.
Frank, M.D.
Ronald G. Hayter, M.D.
Annual Report
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Health Center Credit Union
John
Ell
Hendley, M.D.
Horace A. Killam. M.D.
John M. Heng, M.D.
Kiwanis Club of Martinez-Evans
HEOPA
J.
JudsonC. Hickey, D.D.S.
Philip Erich
Malcolm
Kling, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Koch, D.M.D.
LoyG. Hicks Jr., M.D.
Krueger
George H Hightower
Oh
Hillsboro Enterprise Foundation
Louis William Landau
Hoechst Celanese Corporation
Lawrence Lande
.
B.
Ringier, Inc.
Kwon, M.D.
Jr.
Joseph B. Paley, M.D.
Hospital Friends
OlenE. KitchingsIII, M.D.
,
D.M.D.
MCG Class of 1990 and 1991
MCG Nurses of 7-West Newborn
MCG Department of Anesthesiology
MCG 8 North Nurses
MCG Faculty Wives Club
MCG Department of Pediatrics
Med-Con
Emory W. Holloway Jr., M.D.
Russell M. Hostetler
Paul Alan Lavietes,
Albert R. Howard. M.D.
Howard Hudson, M.D.
M.D.
of
Georgia
Mu
Inc.
Sorority. University of Georgia
Robert J. Pierce
Inc.
Jr.,
Pracon, Inc.
Alan D. Lavine
George
Lane Mathis Price, M.D.
Federico E. Lenz, M.D.
M.D.
M.D.
T. Miller Jr.,
Harold
Louis Michael Prisant. M.D.
Leon A. Leonard. D.D.S.
M. Mims, M.D.
James William Minchew Jr.
Joseph B. LeRoy, M.D.
JohnC. Mitchell, M.D.
Albert Wesley Pruitt, M.D.
I.
Levine,
M.D.
Project Coordination Services
Morgan Road Middle School
Morgan Jr.
M
Nathan Benami Rabhan, M.D.
Toby
ICI Americas Stuart Marketing
M.D.
David Michael Lewis, M.D.
Daniel Dickerson Moye. M.D.
Reid-Rowell
Insty Prints of Augusta
Charles W. Linder, M.D.
Joseph L. MulherinJr., M.D.
Susan M. Reimer
Internal Medicine Infectious
Lions International Club
Arnold
Investcorp International Corp.
Malcolm N. Luxenberg, M.D.
Murray Bakery Products
Johann R. Manning, M.D.
Network Augusta
James
J
&J
B. Hurst,
M.D.
Stanley H. Levine.
Corrugated Box Corp.
James G. Jackson
III.
M.D.
Ben
Jr.
D.
M
William Earl
Marks Jr.. M.D.
S.
S.
.
Charlotte Neuberg,
John
Cleon Denton Johnson Jr., M.D.
Martin Marietta Aggregates Division
Ralph George Newton
Milton Irvin Johnson Jr., M.D.
Clinton
Robert H.Johnson, M.D.
William H. Mather,
Joseph
William E.
David
Joseph
F.
,
.
I ).
Johnston, M.D.
William B. Johnston,
M.D.
Saunders Jones Jr. M.D.
,
Philip
John
M.Joseph, D.M.D.
S. Josey.
M.D.
Edward Massey, M.D.
M.D.
Matthews, M.D.
Bertram Maxwell Charitable
Charles B. May, M.D.
William McCollum.
M.D.
M.D.
Raghunatha N. Rao, M.D.
D.
Turner W. Rentz
Inc.
Fenwick
J.
M.D.
William
Sr.,
M.D.
Leslie Richerson.
M.D.
Mixon Robinson, M.D.
John Anthony Rodriguez-Feo, M.D.
Sanfordl. Rosenthal, M.D.
Jr.,
M.D.
Tattnall Nichols Jr.,
M.D.
Nichols Sr.. M.D.
Nicholson, M.D.
P.
Don
Raleigh
Newton, M.D.
S.
Nipro
Foundation
.
Mulkey Jr.. M.D.
P.
Roger Pierce Martin, M.D.
Wall Jernigan
M.D.
Metropolitan Woman's Club
Monroe
John B. Hunt, M.D.
Peters,
Powers Peterson, M.D.
Physicians Practice Group
Joseph T. McLamb, M.D.
William
Hans J.
Pharmacia
Homer
Edward Howell
M.D.
Phi
Marian Freeman Lane. M.D.
R.
Peel,
Guerrant H. Perrow, M.D.
Frank W. McKinnon, M.D.
W. Larry Hogue, M.D.
M.D.
James R.
James Emory McKinney. M.D.
Jacob H.Holley, M.D.
L. Lassiter Sr.,
Robert E. Parham, M.D.
Robert A. Parrishjr., M.D.
Brown Nipper Jr., D.M.D.
Charles A. Ross, D.M.D.
Ross Laboratories
Rotary Club of Aiken-Sunrise
SaulS. Rubin, M.D.
Walter
Saluda
Inc.
Thomas Sale, M.D.
Wood Company, Inc.
George A. Nixon, M.D.
Joseph A. Sangster, M.D.
AlvinW. North, M.D.
Stanley David Satterfield, D.M.D.
Nu
CP. Savage, M.D.
Junior League of Augusta, Inc.
Bright McConnellJr.,
Terry Vern Kelley, M.D.
George McDaniel
Brien Pharmaceutical. Inc.
Schering Corp.
GeneM.
Opal D. McDaniel
Orthopedic Association of Savannah
Timothy Totten Schmidt, M.D.
John Paul Kendrick, M.D.
Harrison R. McDonald, M.D.
Osier Institute.
Sego Middle School
James Randall Kennedy. M.D.
MCG 4th Floor Nursing and
Owens & Minor Inc.
20
Kelly,
M.D.
Craft Dental Arts
Inc.
William C. Shelorjr.,
M.D.
Adas Yeshurun Sisterhood
Winifred Britton
Thomas Walker Cowan
Robert Wayne Sims. D.M.I).
Aiken High School Key Club
Britton Medical Inc.
Joseph Lawrence Cowart, D.M.D.
Marvin E. Skelton, M.D.
SabahJ. Albazzaz, M.D.
Jimmy Leighton Brock, D.M.D.
Betty Ann Brooks, M.D.
William P. Brooks, M.D.
Stephen Jeffrey Crews, D.M.D.
M.
Stanley
M.D.
Silver.
Hilton E. Smith,
M.D.
Calvin Fenner Allen
Edwin Whitaker Allen III. M.D.
John Edward Allen Jr.. M.D.
Thomas McCall Allen. M.D.
James H. Smith, M.D.
W.T. Smith, M.D.
Walter Aldine Smith
Jr.,
M.D.
Jr.,
M.D.
Laurence
Cnmmins. M.D.
Robert N. Cross, M.D.
M.D.
Elbert Harry Brown,
T.
Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Cullum
George W. Brown. M.D.
Ronald Daitch, M.D.
Grady Brown
John W. Darden, M.D.
William R. Snellingsjr.
Andrew Ridgeway Allgood. D.M.D.
Alpha Eta A. H.S. Honor Society
James Haskell Brown, M.D.
South Columbia Elementary School
American Society
Nelson H. Brown.
Melvin Spina, M.D.
Martha E. Anderson. B.S.N.
Odis Coats Stamps Jr., M.D.
Robert
Thomas W. Stewart Jr., M.D.
Marion R. Annis
Mildred R. Bunn
Reginald Maurice Davis
Cathy L. Armstrong
Randolph
Thomas
Armstrong Medical Industries
James W. Burnham Jr., M.D.
M.D.
William Valdon Smith,
Stolkin
Temple No. 22
James Russell
M.D.
Story,
Hammond Story III, M.D.
Robert McRae Stout, M.D.
Stacy
M.D.
William B. Strong,
Thomas
Anderton
Walter Kenneth Austin
Julian Wilson
William
Sullivan,
Sutton,
M.D.
B.R.E. Medical
M.D.
D.
Swann, M.D.
Cummings
Tate
II,
Company
Thames Jr. M.D.
The New Canaan Lumber Co.
The Railroad Avenue Corp.
Mary
Traylor,
M.D.
Becton Dickinson
United Way of the
CSRA
Peggy
M.S.N. B.S.N.
,
Eugene Demarque
University Urological Association
John A. Bell Jr., M.D.
University Hospital— Augusta
Lee Augustus
II,
Bell Sr.,
M.D.
M.D.
Priscilla
Marjorie Bartels Desrosier, B.S.N.
M.D.
Sara B. Dessauer
Robert W. Caldwell, Ph.D.
Robert Douglas DeVore, M.D.
Dan Callahan, M.D.
James Callan
William B. Dial,
D.M.D.
Bell Sr.,
Molyneux Bence, B.S.N.
M.D.
David Joe Dickey, D.M.D.
Cannon Jr.. M.D.
D. Carson,
John William Dickey, D.M.D.
M.D.
Lovick Edsel Dickey, M.D.
D.M.D.
Robert E. Dicks
M.D.
III,
Harold Alex Carswell, M.D.
Stephen K. Dickson.
Harvey Richard Carter, M.D.
David L.
Dill,
Thomas
E. Dill,
M.D.
Robert M. Cates. M.D.
F.
Catrett,
Chalker,
M.D.
Joseph
M.D.
T. DiPiro
Alda Lee Ditchfield
M.D.
Dopson-Hicks,
,
M
.
D.
M.D.
William E. Check.
ASRTH
M.D.
Charles J. DiPanni
Donald C. Chait, M.D.
DanK.
M.D.
Elizabeth Korst DeWitt,
Arthur Bleakley Chandler Jr.
Sidney A. Bell, M.D.
Vanderzalm, M.D.
James W. Wade
M.D.
M.D.
C. Jennings Derrick.
William
C. Belger,
University of Texas Medical Branch
T.
Sr.,
Kabina Beeson
Tobin Barrett Trotter. D.M.D.
Thomas Gregory DeLong, M.D.
Commercial Corporation
Y. Franklin Carter,
James Andrew Bedingfield
Deen, M.D.
T.
A. DeLauparier, M.D.
M.D.
Jeffrey Carl Carstens,
JackM. Bates, M.D.
James E. Baugh, M.D.
Ensemble
Johnny
C&S
Matthew
M.D.
E. Batayias,
M.D.
C. Deas,
Garland Edward Byron, M.D.
Cliff L.
M.S.N.
L. Barnwell,
George
Rheney Butler
Walter Howell Butler, M.D.
Burch G. Cameron, D.M.D.
M.D.
Barfield,
Sr.,
M.D.
JohnH. Deatonjr.. M.D.
C. George DeBelly. M.D
Burnette
C. Daniel Cabaniss,
Inc.
Samuel Louis Banks, M.D.
Joseph Wade Tollison, M.D.
Trinity
M.D.
Jr..
Mark Babcock, D.M.D
James Everett
,
Frank Deaver Thomas. M.D.
James Bothwell
D.
Antonio Jose Ballagas, M.D.
TeleScripps Cable
Frank Maynard
.
Melvin O'Neal Baker, D.M.D.
M.D.
L.
WilliamJ. Butler,
Frederick C. Sturmer Jr., M.D.
T
M
M.D.
Paul C. At water,
George J. Austin Jr., M.D.
James
Lawrence Paul Davis. M.D.
Benjamin R. Busbee, M.D.
David Manning Stubbs, M.D.
James Howell
Harry N. Davis, M.D.
Solomon K. Brown, M.D.
Allie
,
Daniel N. Davidow, M.D.
Richard Allen Brown, M.D.
Vivian Martha Ashline, M.S.N.
Comer Askew Jr.
Marion Nesbit Dasher Jr., M.D.
M.D
Joseph Allan Arnold. M.D.
Fletcher
M.D.
B. Strozier,
L.
of Anesthesiologists
M.D.
III,
Jefferson C.
Inc.
Dorn
Douglas Battery Manufacturing
Stephen Yung Sheng Cheng, M.D.
Joseph R. Downs
Katherine Q. Chester
Ida
Chew Jr.. M.D.
III,
M.D.
Beth Doyle
Alan Stephen Waller, M.D.
Gertrude Kristine Bennett, M.D.
William H.
Walton Way Temple Sisterhood
Robin R. Bennett, M.D.
Bobby Ray Childree, D.M.D.
Calvin Dudley,
Warren Road PTA
Victor Berkovich,
George Edwin Chisholm. M.D.
James Crawford Dudley Jr. M.D.
Donald Waters, M.D.
Elizabeth
Robert Kin Bong Chong, M.T.
Donald Dunagan, M.D.
Mark David Chouinard, M.D.
James
Tommy
Roy Gordon Duncan. M.D.
D.M.D.
Ann Bernhard, D.M.D.
Richard Patten Watson Jr., M.D.
Berrie Well Drilling Inc.
M.D.
Alexander H.S. Weaver Jr., M.D.
Paul D.Webster III. M.D.
Horace E. Weems, M.D.
William McLaurin Bethea
Jubal R. Watts,
DuraMed Medical Equipment
Philadelphia United Methodist Church
Thomas
Cedar Grove Lutheran Church
David G. Dye, M.D.
&
Bilsel Professional
Inc.
Uriah H. Bodiejr., M.D.
Our Redeemer Evangelical Church
St. Mark United Methodist Church
Jeffrey I. Clark, M.D.
William Ashmore Clary, M.D.
Gloria M. Clayton, M.S.N. Ed.D.
Fred Nelson Clements Jr., D.M.D.
Mack Harvey Clements, M.D.
Martha Downs Clements, M.D.
Stephen D. Clements Jr., M.D.
Michael D. Boggan, M.D.
Debra
Marion Gilbert Bolin, M.D.
Thomas Barry
Somnate Boonpucknavig, M.D.
Charles B. Coff
Clyde
III
M.D.
Phillip Blalock,
Westside High School
Nancy Blancato
Roberts. Whitelaw, M.D.
J.
Michael H. Whittle. M.D.
Thomas W.
John Francis Williams. M.D.
William W. Bledsoe
Kenneth
Augustus Frederick Bloodworth. M.D.
M.D.
John W. Williford
Arthur
Samuel
W Willis, M.D.
E.
Wood, M.D.
Theodore M.
Richard Blanchard
Blanchard. M.D.
Jr.,
M.D.
Yates.
Paul Yurfest. D.D.S.
Richard Neal Boswell,
Pete Nicholas Bougas
Century Club
more during fiscal period
1987-88 entitles donors
the
to
membership
Century Club. We gratefully
acknowledge their generosity.
A. P. Golf
Management Company
AAJGA
Abbott
Don
Oil
Company,
Inc.
Cassel Abbott, M.D.
Joseph D. Adams, D.M.D.
in
M.D.
Jr.,
D.M.D.
,
P. Cliatt
Joel F.
Lees G. Cole
William
Bozeman, M.D.
Durst
N.
III,
D.M.D.
Dwyer
Conrad H. Easley, M.D.
L. Echols Jr.,
M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Edenfield
Herman
A. Elder.
Margaret
DeanC.
P.
D.M.D
Ellen
Elliott,
M.D.
Carrol W. Ellison.
M.D.
Morris M. Elstein, M.D.
HaroldS. Engler. M.D.
Douglas Engler
Frederick Bennett Epstein, M.D.
James W. Estes, M.D.
Victor Ivan Etheridge.
M. Coleman, M.D.
Kathryn Ward
Collier.
Adams
J.W. Eversole,
M.D.
M.D.
John A. Ezzard. M.D.
Harry Frank Farmer Jr. M.D.
Robert Andrew Bradley, M.D.
Chappell
Shirley Swint Bradley, B.S.N.
Harold Anderson Collins Jr., D.M.D.
Leon Farmer
James Emmett
Jack A. Feldman, M.D.
WilliamJ. Brananjr.,
M.D.
D.M.D.
James Patrick Evans, M.D.
George Jeryl Everidge. M.D.
Cohen
Margie E. Boyles, M.D.
D.
Clower, D.M.D.
F.
George
J.
Howard J. Cohen, M.D.
Alan L. Bowen, M.D.
James
Gifts of $100 or
M.D.
AlvinA. Blumenfeld, M.D.
Winthrop Pharmaceuticals
Duncan, M.D.
L.
Marion
Bimeco
T. Williams.
.
Washington Heights Baptist Church
Charles S. Bird
M.D.
M.D.
Jr.,
M.D.
Joseph T. Christmas. M.D.
Western
III,
Christie
Dudley
Donald E. Biggerstaff, M.S.M.I.
West Lake Women's Club
William Weston
M.D.
B.
Terry Quinton Beusse, D.M.D.
Bilsel
Sizzlin Inc.
Jr.,
Augustus
Collins Jr.,
Collins.
M.D.
M.D.
M.D.
,
Thomas Joseph
Jean B. Braun. M.D.
Alfred 0. Colquitt
Mark Tanner Braxton. D.M.D.
Preston Dewitt Conger, M.D.
Stuart Mclntyre Finch.
Lloyd C. Brewton. M.D.
David Hal Conner, M.D.
Wallace W. Fleetwood Jr.
Glenn J. Bridges Jr., M.D.
Stephen Bruce Conner, M.D.
Fleming Lions Club
Jr..
Ferrelljr.
,
M.D.
M.D
,
M.D.
C. Charlene Cotton, B.S.N.
James
Dorothy E. Brinsfield, M.D.
Shan
Mr. and Mrs. Seth A. Folsom
Bristol-Myers Pharmaceutical
Wesley Covitz, M.D.
William Lee Bridges
Jr..
M.D.
Covitz.
M.D.
C. Folk
Brad Neil Ford, D.M.D.
Annual Report
Henry J. Ford, M.D.
Edward
M.Ed.
Forester. M.D.
B. Forde.
Jonathan
S.
William Russell Kincer, D.M.D.
William E.
Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Hatcher
Kinetic Concepts Therapeutic
Hawes
E.W.
Horace
Harold Foss
T.
Avery
Hayes, M.D.
Harry R. Foster Jr., M.D.
Rick Haynes
Henry Arthur
Foster,
Van
&
Henry
M.D.
Aldo G. Franceschi, M.D.
Fred
S.
Louis
James
M. Freedman, M.D.
Freeman
Friedman
J.
Peggy E.
Friel,
Jutson
Sybil A. Hendrix, B.S.N.
Norman Pease Gardner, M.D.
John White Garland
III,
M.D.
R.N..C.
.
Marie Heng, M.D.
Kramer
F.
Krystal
Hill,
John Roland McKinney. M.D.
No. 2
Ray
Frederick L. McLean, M.D.
LaSala, D.M.D.
J.
Jean McNair
John Reamer Lane
Jr.
.
D.M.D.
Kenneth Kirby Hutchinson, D.M.D.
William Frederick Lindsey,
Robert Daniel Golden, D.M.D.
John J. Hyers, M.D.
Werner A.
Ronald E. Goldstein
Robert Paul
Jacob Allan Goodrich. M.D.
IVAC Corporation
Susan Carol M. Goodson, D.M.D.
Billy J.
Roy Goodwin
William Neal Jackson, B.S.N.
Georgia Society for Respiratory
Therapy
Women
Power Co.
of Georgia
A. Harry Germagian, M.S. M.I.
John A. Gervase
Hugh H. Gibson, M.D.
M.D.
Isbin Sylvester Giddens.
GarnettJ. Gieslerjr, M.D.
Raymond
Hugh
E.
L. Gilbert Jr.,
M.D.
Gleatonjr. M.D.
Janette B. Goldberg
Sally
M. Goodwin
Jackson
W. Deveraux
James Furman Gowen. M.D.
Harold George
GPC
Robert J.
A. Judson Graves. M.D.
Arthur Richard Gray
Lowell
Jr.,
M.D.
M. Greenbaum, Ph.D.
Herbert
Greenwald Jr., M.D.
S.
James R. Gregory
M.D.
Sr..
Grice's Butcher Shop Inc.
Joseph W.
M.D.
Griffin Jr.,
Thomas Andrew
Nancy E. Gunn
III,
Gulick
Meadows
Kenneth J. Mello, D.M.D.
Quentin
T
Lawyers
Title
Lawson, M.D.
David John Lehmiller, M.D.
Roger
Lenox Optical
Microscope Service
Iêon
Inc.
James Leonard. D.M.D.
Larry Miller
Jay Alan Levin,
M.D.
Life
Systems.
M.D.
M.D.
M.D.
M.D.
Lockman, M.D.
Martha Goddard
George
Lovell.
M.D.
C. Lynch, C.M.I.
Aurelia S. Jernigan
Jo
Stanley Jones.
Jr.
.
M.D.
Jr.,
M.D.
Lyons. M.D.
D. Scott Macleod,
E.
Insurance
M.D.
Sr..
John Buck Morton, M.D.
The C.V Mosby Company
Robert Burgess Moss Jr., D.M.D.
Thomas H. Moss Jr., M.D.
Youssef Mouna, M.D.
William B. Mulherin, M.D.
Arnold P. MulkeySr, M.D.
Kenneth L.
Madge
Mag Mutual
Moores
Morgan Jr., M.D.
M.D.
Mullis,
Muro Pharmaceutical
M.D.
David L. Maddox, D.D.S.
Gordon
M.D.
Garland Frank Jones
Mane
Russell Ray
Franklin G.
M. Elizabeth Morgan, M.D.
Anne Burnett Morris, M.D.
M.D.
Jack Vincent Lyons
M.D.
Montgomery
David H. Moore
Lott.
M.D.
David Richard Montgomery, M.D.
Sylvania Lions Club
S.
III,
James W. Mitchener, M.D.
Makoto Miyamoto, M.D.
Janet W.
Robin Markovits Jensen, M.S.M.I.
Henderson Johnson Jr.
William T. Minter
Martinez-Evans Lions Club
Edwin Hansford Lynch. M.D.
.
Oscar M. Mims, M.D.
Alexander R. Mitchell. M.D.
Inc.
Linz.
Repair
Ph.D.
Mills,
Dr. and Mrs.
Martin G. Levine, M.S.M.I.
Gloria L. Lewis,
&
MidState Golf Cars
Thomas M.
Lydia Sunday School Class
Jr.
Meyer, M.D.
Robert H. Lester, M.D.
Faith Irby Jenkins, B.S.N.
William Dickson Jennings
P.
Fred A. Levin, M.D.
Howard Lovett
W. Thomas Jenkins. M.D.
Merchant, D.M.D.
Virginia A.
Charles A. Meyer Jr., M.D.
AllynM.Lay, M.D.
Ruby Louvier
M.D.
College of Business
Hubert W. Merchant, D.D.S.
Insurance Corporation
Robert Norman Lowe. D.M.D.
F.
M.D.
Aubrey Lanier
David
M.D.
McRae. M.D.
McShane, D.M.D.
B.
Jack Lawler, M.D.
Thomas M.
Jarrell Sr.,
Jarrell.
Duncan
Patrick Kendall
Frances L. Livingston, M.S.
M.D.
Jarratt.
Staffan C.G. Johnsson,
Nathan M. Grossman, M.D.
Col. Marshall A. Guill
M.D.
Robert Langston, M.D.
Jenkins County High School
B.
Murray Grossan, M.D.
Jr..
M.D.
Ivey Jacobs,
Robert L. Gordon, D.M.D.
Civil/HVAC Sec. Plant Vogtle
M.D.
Silvio Introna.
McLeodJr. M.D.
Kenneth Arthur McMillan. D.M.D.
Betty M. Golden, M.S.N.
General 0ffices/3M
L.
Wallace N.
Hayne Lamar
Steven R. Goldberg
Joseph M. Garrison. M.D.
McKinney, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Rick Kuester
Robert B. Lamar
M.D.
McKie, M.D.
Virgil C.
Company
Mary Kate MacMillan Hires, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn F. Holley
Albert S. Hollingsworth Jr., M.D.
Charles Holmes
Mary Louise Holmes
William D. Holsonback, M.D.
Walter F. Homeyer Jr.. M.D.
Sara Goolsby Hoover. M.D.
Ralph D. Hopkins Jr., M.D.
William Columbus House, M.D.
William R. Howard, M.D.
Donald E. Hubbard, M.D.
David G. Hughes, M.D.
Jesse Lindsey Hunt, M.D.
Morris William Hutcheson, M.D.
David D. Garrison
John Lewis McKie
Krauss, M.D.
S.
McGhee, M.D.
Phillip L.
John Clay McHugh, M.D.
M.D.
James G. Kuhns, M.D.
L.
Hinely Jr., M.S.M.I.
of Physician Assistant
McGahee Jr.. M.D.
David OtisMcGee, D.M.D.
Paul
J.
Department
Helen A. Korn
Winnie Claire Hicks, M.D.
Lewis
of Pediatrics Faculty
Ollie Odell
Charles B. Herron
James Wayne
Department
Kroger 368
Julia
M.D.
M.D.
III,
Steven Jay Koehler, D.M.D.
Jonathan
Henderson
Ronald Selman Gable, M.D.
William H. Galloway,
King
Knapp, B.S.N.
Russell H. Kramer.
Thompson
Brian B. Gallagher. M.D.
F.
H.J.
William Jackson Henderson, D.M.D.
A. Gailey Jr., M.D.
B.
Frances
Mary
Morgan Heimburger, M.D.
Heinz Company Foundation
Darrell
Fulmer Jr.
F.
Spencer
Elizabeth
Heinz U.S.A.
B.S.N.
Harry Frohman
School of Medicine— Dean's Office
Fred Ray Knickerbocker, M.D.
Heam III, M.D.
B.
Aubrey Fred Hedrick Jr., D.M.D.
Shirley B.
Herbert
Haywood, D.M.D.
B.
King, M.D.
P.
Charles Robert King, M.D.
David L. Hearin, M.D.
Co. of Georgia
McEnroe
John W. Harte
Alexander
T.
Inc
Murpheyjr., M.D.
H.Jack Murphy, M.D.
Company
Hurley D.Jones Jr., M.D.
Charles G. Magnanjr., M.D.
Robert W. Murphy,
Darrell W. Murray.
Jr.
M.D.
Warren Jeffrey Jones Jr. M.D.
Richard L. Magruder Jr., M.D.
Marlon E. Murrell, D.M.D.
James E. Haddadjr., D.M.D.
Stephen M.Jordan. M.D.
Donald Hubert Manning, M.D.
John
Dorothy Augusta Hahn, M.D.
W. Marion Jordan. M.D.
John Arlie Mansberger, M.D.
Elmer Anthony Musarra
Mohamed
Allan
Marks Jr.
David R. Myers. D.D.S.
,
Riad Hajmurad, M.D.
W. Knowlton Hall. Ph.D.
John
Thomas Hammond
M. Josephson, M.D.
N.S. International,
Frederick W. Martin. M.D.
Omar Abdallah
Rufus Russell Martin Jr., M.D.
Jane Maxwell Neal
P. Mason
Massey Burch Investment Group
William John Neglia,
Master Mailing Service,
George Joel Nelson, P.A.
M Kaplan, M.D.
CarlV. Hancock
Sherwin Douglas Katz. D.M.D.
Kiyoshi Kawano, M.D.
Robert A. Hand
James
Sr.,
M.D.
Bruce Harden, M.D.
William E. Harden.
Willie Alice
Kay Jr., M.D.
B.
Robert R. Keimjr., M.D.
M.D.
Alex Rennie Kelly
Harden
Arthur G.
Franklin Douglas Harkrider,
M.D.
David
Kelly,
Elliot
Jr.,
M.D.
M.D.
Kent, M.D.
Henry Wilbur Harper Jr., M.D.
Lowell
Osmah
Fred Jason Kight. M.D.
Paul
Elias Harrell.
Howard
Harris.
Sterling Adair Harris
Tom
M.D.
M.D.
Jr..
M.D.
Harris
Keppjr, M.D.
J.
Masanori Kikui, M.D.
Sarah Helen Killgore. B.S.N.
Ann
Kilpatrick
Mr. and Mrs. David Harrison
William H. Kilpatrick,
Steven J. Harrison, B.S.M.I., M.S.M.I.
Kimberly Clark Corporation
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M.D.
Wilson
Inc.
Najjar,
M.D.
M.D.
Donald Bryce Nelson, D.M.D.
Neuren, M.D.
Kent Michael Mattison, D.M.D.
Alan
Stephen C. May Jr., M.D.
Prawat Nitiyanant, M.D.
JohnD. McArthur, M.D.
W. Harold Nixon, M.D.
JohnM. McCord. M.D.
Larry Patrick McCord. M.D.
Augustus A. McCravey, M.D.
Sean F. McCue. M.D.
James Stuart McDaniel, M.D.
Howard C. McDermid, M.D.
Donald A. McEachem. M.D.
Andy McElmurray
M.D.
LTD
JabezO. Marshall, M.D.
JackH. Hancock Jr., D.M.D.
Clifford
II,
Walter W. Kanter, M.D.
Flyman
M.D.
Murtagh
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Kaine
Masato Hanada. M.D.
Jr.,
Pierce E.
P.
P.
R. David Noel,
M.D.
Thomas Campbell
Mr. and Mrs.
J
Nolan.
M.D.
L Norris
Christopher Pollard North. D.M.D.
James
E. Nutt,
M.D.
Richard Lamar Nutt
Sr.,
M.D.
Gerald A. O'Connor
Norris L. O'Dell. Ph.D., D.M.D.
Mary Hamby O'Quinn, M.D.
Petersburg Racquet Club/
Phillip
A-Team
Charlotte O'Rear
Harry Barron O'Rear, M.D.
PGA Tour Investments,
Kim Diane
Robert Thomas Pierce, D.M.D.
Thomas N. Pirkle, M.D.
Oakley. B.S.N.
Albert Grady Oliver, M.D.
Joseph L.
Oiler.
Joel Candler Pittard,
M.D.
Once Only Club
Wood
William
James
M.D.
Leland L. Pool. M.D.
Orrjr.,
John Charles Pope
III,
Allen D. Smith,
Mann Ray
Roberta
Foundation
Robinson Skin and Cancer
Clinic
Cason Conrad Smith. M.D.
Chester Morgan Smith Jr., M.D.
Rodney M. Cook Agency
Gerard Norman Smith. D.M.D.
Mary Ann Sprawls Rogers.
Joel P.
James
,
M.S.N.
D.M.D.
NormanJ. Smith, M.D.
D.M.D.
P. Rollins,
Smith Jr., M.D.
L. Travis Smith,
Susan M. Pope, B.S.N.
Barrett Frank Rosen.
Clark Lamont Osteen, M.D.
Bernard Portman, M.D.
Francis
GailM. Osterhout, M.D.
James M.
William Q. Roundtree
Harvey G. Ouzts. M.D.
Michael E. Powell, M.D.
James
Ralph Glen Owen, M.D.
Leander K. Powers, M.D.
Roger R. Rowell, M.D.
William Sidney Smith,
Frank Graham Pratt Jr., M.D.
Rowland Trucking
Joseph Snitzer
Elizabeth Jeanne Prince, PT.
James Roy Rowland Jr. M.D.
Lisa D. Snoddy, B.S.N.
Susan Q. Sand
Willard A. Snyder,
Richard Tilden Provine, D.M.D.
Malcolm Maynard Sayre, M.D.
DavidS. Sowell,
Elton S. Osborne
Jr.,
M.D.
Owens Jr. M.D.
William Franklin
,
M. Oxford. M.D.
William
Andrew Packo,
William L. Pritchard,
Jr.
Fred Alvin Padgelek, D.M.D.
Edward
M.D.
Potts,
D.M.D.
M.D.
Randolph R. Smith. M.D.
Rossiter Jr.. M.D.
P.
L. Routon,
Richard Curtis Smith, M.D.
Samuel R. Smith. M.D.
III
M.D.
Sidney 0. Smith Jr.
,
M.D.
M.D.
III,
M.D.
Clyde Smith, M.D.
Robinson, M.D.
S.
B.S.N.
PA.
Juanita Sirmans
John Franklin Sisley
Noreen King Poole, M.S.N.
Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
Rigdon, D.M.D.
Toivo Egon Rist, M.D.
Robert
D.M.D.
Gail V. Plauka,
M.D.
Orrington, D.M.D.
L.
Inc.
Edmund
Geraldine Rinker, M.S.
III,
M.D.
M.D.
M.D.
M.D
James E. Pruett, M.D.
James Schear. Ph.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Sparks
Palmer Course Design Company
Charles V. Pryles. M.D.
Sarah H. Schuman
Kam M.
Edward E Palmer Jr., M.D.
Carol
John D. Palmer
Pryor's Inc.
I.
Robert L. Pulliamjr., M.D.
G.D. Searle Company
Nancy H.
HokeC.
John L. Stapleton, M.D.
Paul
William
James
P.
Pafford,
Pannell.
M.D.
Allan Panter,
P.
Pryor,
M.D.
Quattlebaum Jr., M.D.
Julian K.
Parkman
Leonard
William Charles Parrish Sr.,
M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Parsons
Eula H. Pate Rogers, M.D.
Julius
Rabhan, M.D.
Harlan Stephen Patterson, M.D.
Parshan
S.
Albert W. Ray Jr., M.D.
James A. Redfearnjr., M.D.
Reeder Jr., D.M.D.
0. William
Kenneth W. Reeves, M.D.
M.D.
RosalynF.
Peach State Chapter
C. Martin
Lamar
William H.
B. Peacock,
D.M.D.
Ramsingh. M.D.
Donna Maria Pavek, B.S.N.
Titus D. Payne,
M.D.
Mark Eugene Peacock, D.M.D.
M.D.
Segars,
James H. Segars
Elliott C.
Sr.,
Reilley,
M.D.
Rhode, M.D.
Gowans
M.D.
T. Stafford,
M.
Harlan
Staible,
Starr,
M.D.
Betti Jo Steele,
M.D.
Williams
S. Allan Stocks.
Siegel.
M.D.
Curt M. Steinhart. M.D.
Barbara Shine
Jerome H.
M.D.
Susan M. Steinberg
Andrew T. SheilsJr., M.D.
Wayne C. Sheils, M.D.
Enid Shepeard, M.D.
Edwin C. Shepherd. M.D.
Carl Willis Sherrer, M.D.
Kenjiro Shirasawa,
M.D.
PA.
Gerald Wayne Statonjr., M.D.
Serotta
M.D.
Henry Stephens, D.M.D,
Wyndel Murray Stephens. B.S.N.
Larry'
Ingrid Stergus,
M.D.
Sterile Design, Inc.
Dean Steward. M.D.
M.D.
Joseph Stoker)
Robert H. Shirkey
Rhodes Jr., M.D.
Sreeram, M.D.
Inc.
Chester
Elizabeth Davenport Sharpe.
Rainwater,
Rachel R. Paulos
M.D.
Gene Schwarz, M.D.
Kamla Shah, M.D.
of Thomasville
Payne. M.D.
SSI
William H. Sessions,
Thomas
J.
Schwartz
Radiology Association
Michael
Paul
S.
John B. Rabun. M.D.
John Warren Patrick, M.D.
Dolford Franklin Payne Jr.,
Louis
FredNeal Pylantjr., D.M.D.
M.D.
Dorothy B. Parkes
James
Graham
Virginia
H. Stone
Gary Edward Stough, D.M.D.
M.D.
M.D.
Silver Bluff High School
George
Gregory B. Richard, PT.
Michael D. Simmons, D.D.S.
Avery'
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Pennington
Stephen Norris
Robert W. Simmons, M.D.
Willette Hendricks Strickland.
Weems
Department
WilliamJ. Peeples,
M.D.
R. Pennington,
M.D.A
Martha Douglas Perkerson, M.D.
David
E.
S. Perling.
Owen
M.D.
Perry HI
Joy 0. Pern-
Walter
Rice,
M.D.
Richie.
D.M.D.
of Family and Children
Colquitt
Sims Jr.. M.D.
Fayette A. Sims
Services
III,
S. Stretcher,
Wade
Strickland,
B.S.N., M.S.N.
David G. Stroup. M.D.
M.D.
Robert R. Ridgway, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Sims
HalS. Stubbs, M.D.
Charles Lewis Ridley Jr., M.D.
Richard L. Singletary
Jeffrey
Lambros
C. Rigas.
M.D.
Charles K. Singleton
Sr.,
M.D.
M.D.
Robert Stump, D.D.S.
Hubert McCrary Suber, M.D.
Annual Report
23
Marcia Myers Suber, D.H.
Terry Norton Tumlin, D.M.D.
Robert M. West, M.D.
Woodgate Garden Club
Joseph Thomas Sumralljr.. D.M.D.
Michael D. Turner, M.D.
William Bernard Westwood, M.S. M.I.
Gerald W. Woods
Richard Sundberg
Twin City Lions Club
Gordon Edwin Wheeler. D.M.D.
BolanP. Woodward. M.D.
Support Systems
Peter John Ulbrich. M.D.
Carl Davis Whelchel
Barbara Jean Utermark, D.M.D.
Mary Beth
Caroline
Swanson
Sweet
Wiles,
M.D.
III,
Mr. and Mrs. John
Valleylab Inc.
Walter Whitener Wilfong
Henry
M. Sykes
Sylvania Junior Women's Club
M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Van Der Zalm
Dorsey Lee Van Horn, D.M.D.
Syntex Laboratories
Johnathan
Robert
Enc
F.
Paul Swinson,
William W. Vallotton,
D.M.D.
Jensina
Inc.
P.
Vansant, M.D.
M.D.
Alfred Wilkinson
David C. Williams
Jr.,
Stephen Thomas Worsham, M.D.
III,
M.D.
Debra Miles Williams, M.D.
Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A.
Kim
Howard J. Williams Jr., M.D.
W.L. Yeager
Jack B. Williams, M.D.
George G. Young, M.D.
JohnL. Williams. M.D.
Frederick E. Youngblood, M.D.
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Wesley Covitz
Dr. He
is
looking
for causes.
wants to know why he
sees changes
in
the hearts
of patients with sickle cell anemia.
Sickle cell anemia is a disease in
which defective hemoglobin causes
oxygen-carrying red blood
cells to lose
round shape when the
their
cells give
up their oxygen.
The
resulting sickle-shaped cells
clog the body's blood vessel system,
causing pain crises, weakness, organ
damage and even
death.
Dr. Covitz, pediatric cardiologist at
the Medical College of Georgia,
is
looking specifically at the effects of
disease on the heart and causes
this
for changes.
'
you see
that
'All
in
childhood
you
if
are not a cardiologist looking in a very
way
detailed
whose
dual
at
the heart
is
an
indivi-
physical performance
is
impaired," Dr. Covitz said.
'
'You have to get oxygen to your
tissues
when you
to increase
exercise so you have
A
your heart's output.
normal individual who goes from
a
resting state to a strenuous exercise
state has to triple his cardiac output.
Sickle cell patients already have a 50
percent higher output just sitting
chair.
in a
Strenuous exercise requires
such a high cardiac output that their
is strikingly reduced,"
work capacity
he
said.
The
heart's inability to significantly
increase
its
output might go routinely
unnoticed. Sickle-cell patients get
good
at
covering up for lack of stamina
by not putting themselves
tion
where sustained
in a situa-
activity is
required.
But they
significant
life.
Dr.
Most
tire
more
easily. "It
has a
impact on their quality of
of us judge
who we
are by
Wesley Covitz measures Yvonne
she rides
Harris' blood pressure while
a stationary bicycle.
Digging Deeper
Annual Report
25
'
'
'
what we can do. Physical performance
can be anything from being able to
participate in sports, dancing up a
storm on Saturday night, trying to
hold
down
a job or just getting along,'
Dr. Covitz said.
When
Dr. Covitz
began taking
a
closer look at the hearts of these
he found changes
patients,
in
the
heart occurring as early as three
months
He
of age.
has seen dilatation (enlarge-
ment) of the heart's main pumping
chamber, the left ventricle. The heart
has to eject more blood with each beat
because the blood ejected does not
have adequate hemoglobin.
"What happens in infant studies is
that the heart's contractile strength
seems to be impaired transiently.'
By adolescence, their heart muscle
has increased in size and strength
because of the extra work. In some
patients, however, the contractile
become
strength of the heart can
abnormal. There are signs of injury to
the heart from inadequate oxygen.
The
heart walls get
so
stiff
harder for the ventricle to
blood on each beat.
The
it
is
even
with
heart ends up
accepting and ejecting so
that
it
fill
much blood
gets muscle-bound, making the
heart less flexible and ejection even
more
'
MCG,
difficult.
'There
is
a lot of acceptance of the
indirect effect of anemia," Dr. Covitz
"(But)
said.
malities that
much
be explained by just the
to
anemia
we feel that the abnorwe have found are too
itself.
We believe
sickling actually
and the heart muscle
that the
myocardium
is
injured by the
theory and one that Dr. Covitz
may end up
But he intends
to
know one way or
the implication that
if
a direct
can be identified, treatment
devices to see
exercise-tested.
effects of sickle cell
anemia.
If so,
MCG also participated in the larger
Lung and Blood
Institute,
cause
possible.
"What I would
accomplish
like to do,
this in the
next
if I
can
five years,
do something that will allow these
people improved physical performance," Dr. Covitz said.
is
to
26
which just
at
MCG, was
on the 10-year
MCG.
Dr. Milner
is
Dr. Covitz injects a radioactive
while patients exercise to capacity.
He measures
look specifically at sickle
cell patients
age 35 and older and problems
cardiac output, dilata-
and contraction of the ventricles
and heart wall thickness.
"So you get a complete
profile,
not
only of what they can perform, but
how they
extending his study to
patients can be safely
if
substance so the heart can be viewed
tion
Dr. Paul F. Milner, professor of
grant at
may be
complete car-
Electrocardiograms and echo-
10-year national cooperative study
principal investigator
is
in for
cardiograms are used as screening
documenting the
are an indirect result of anemia or
His main reason for questioning this
come
tions.
an offshoot of a
is
pathology and medicine
they have a more direct cause.
Patients
sickle cell anemia.
the other whether the heart problems
if
study.
diac histories and physical examina-
concluded.
disproving.
are done on each patient in the heart
heart abnormalities associated with
study, funded by the National Heart,
sickling effect as well.'
It's a
are participating in a study defining the
This study
causes some clogging
of the capillaries of the
Yale University, Cornell
University and Columbia University
deliver
it
and,
if
they
fail,
which of their adaptive mechanisms
has
'
failed.
'If
the patient exercises and his
with blood, as the exer-
associated with their major organs:
ventricle
the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.
cise increases, the ventricle has to
Meanwhile, Dr. Covitz,
is
following
about 100 patients with sickle
cell
anemia as part of the focus on the
heart.
Two
studies, five years apart,
contract
fills
more
forcefully. In the
patients that can't deliver, the heart
impaired, contraction
and ejection
is
becomes
reduced.
less
is
fibrosis or infarction in the heart
muscle.
Dr. Covitz noted that a recently
reported study showed that on
autopsy, evidence of infarction or
was found
fibrosis
percent of
in 17
teen-agers and young adults with
sickle cell disease.
"So
the whole thing
wide open.
is
pet project of mine to try
It's sort of a
and prove that theory.
your studies
you design
If
you may prove
well,
yourself wrong."
But he keeps exploring.
A unique
population
in
south
Georgia has a combination of genetic
disorders alpha thalassemia and
—
sickle cell anemia. This alpha
thalassemia modifies the sickle
anemia so
cell
that these people have
sickling of cells without the anemia.
This population affords the perfect
opportunity to see
if
the well-
documented changes
the hearts of
in
sickle cell patients are an indirect
anemia or
result of the
caused by
if
they are
sickling.
Dr. Covitz already believes he
knows the answer.
"We
show
are going to test
them and
that even though they are not
some of these
show which ones
they have compared to sickle cell
patients of the same age and sex.'
If Dr. Covitz can show that the
anemic, they
still
have
abnormalities and
'
'That
is
a response
we see
Dr. Covitz and medical technicians
John Greene and Bonnie Hadden study
Ms. Harris' computer readout.
in
patients without sickle cell anemia,
but with coronary disease," Dr.
Covitz said.
To
abnormalities are a direct effect of
his surprise,
these patients,
it
he has noted that
may
in
not take a
muscle-bound heart for the ventricle
to get stiff and ineffective in doing its
job.
He expected
ventricle not
wall
was
the explanation for the
filling
thick
well to
and so too
be that the
rigid to
pump
effectively.
"But there were patients who had
the same situation and the wall wasn't
thick.
So the
poor relaxacould not be explained
stiffness or
tion of the wall
solely by thickening," Dr. Covitz said.
This observation seems to support
Dr. Covitz 's beliefs about direct causes.
He
theorizes that the tiny capillaries
which are fed by the coronary arteries
These plugged
capillaries can't
be
approaches to treatment.
viewing the heart visualizes the coro-
drug that
nary arteries and these main arteries
heart which
may be
improved exercise performance
So
clear, Dr.
Covitz said.
Dr. Covitz also
is
using
MCG's
magnetic resonance imager (MRI) to
study hearts of sickle cell patients.
These
studies are beyond the scope
shoot of the 10-year
NHLBI
study.
But that study also only addresses
He wants to
thicker.
allow
filling
them
of the
to have
for a
am talking about getting up
and
going to work, going to school, playing
ball
or going out on a date. Being
alive."
Also,
it
if
sickling
is
the problem and
can be determined
damage
is
done
at
if
what point
to the heart, patients
understand the mechanism for the
gram
heart changes with an eye toward
blood with blood that does not contain
intervention.
sickled cells.
we presume that there is clogof vessels, we can presume that
"If
there are areas of the heart muscle
are not always
I
will
possible to give a
the
could be put on a blood exchange pro-
which may explain why the heart walls
when they
time.
may be
it
will effect
the effects on the heart.
ging
stiff
"I think
of the cooperative heart study, an off-
are clogged with sickle-shaped cells,
are
two
sickling, there are at least
viewed even with cardiac catheterization because that common method for
that might be
damaged," he
The MRI can
said.
visualize areas of
that replaces
some
of their
own
'That might reduce wear and tear
on the heart and might add 10 years to
their lives. I don't know. That is the
kind of question we will be asking.'
'
'
—Toni Baker
Annual Report
27
Labor
of Love
Dr. Ralph McKinney was warned as a student that
teaching would never be as lucrative as private practice.
But he wasn't motivated by money; he was
motivated by the love of academia.
I
JB Mhen Ralph McKinney
IJIm
WM Mm
m mm
opened
his eyes. Dr.
McKinney wasn't
told his dental school
new
professors he thought
teaching assistant
he'd like a career as a
Bowling Green State University and
to
teaching— he was
a student
former teacher was Dr. Judson
C.
Hickey, the recently retired founding
dental educator, he didn't get a lot of
an assistant instructor of dental
encouragement.
'They told me
hygiene at Ohio State. But the experience showed him there was more to
dean of the School of Dentistry.
"I came here because I knew Jud
Hickey at Ohio State. He was one of
my teachers and I admired his
thoughts as a teacher. He had a lot of
dental education than he'd perceived
innovative ideas in dental education
never drive a
Cadillac," said the chairman of the
'
Department
I'd
of Oral Pathology at the
Medical College of Georgia School of
Dentistry.
'And they told
'
me
that
at
in
biology at
Ohio State, and he realized
his true
That ambition led him from Rocky
I
should try private practice for a while.'
River to the University of Rochester
Try he did. From 1961 to 1965, he
had a general practice in Rocky River,
in
Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.
Nevertheless, he'd been bitten by
the teaching bug, and
when
the oppor-
tunity arose at a nearby college, he
became an
assistant clinical professor
of operative dentistry at
Western
Reserve University's School of
Dentistry.
The time he spent
28
New
Western
really
I
thought were different, that
own thoughts on
I
And I had my
dental education,
too.'
fellow in pathology teaching medical
During dental school, Dr. McKinney
had taken some mental notes. He
York. There, as a postdoctoral
students, graduate nurses and
knew what
graduate students, Dr. McKinney
experience as a dental student and he
believed he would get the best educa-
intended to
and educating.
He stayed in Rochester for five
years, and in 1970, a teacher he'd
admired from Ohio State contacted
his students.
tion in training
him about joining the
at
that
found very interesting.
ambition.
faculty at the
MCG School of Dentistry.
That
he'd change about his
make
things different for
"I would have changed the ability to
talk
with the instructors," he said.
'When I was going through, it was
very difficult to get help. I remember
'
feeling totally lost,
and
I
thought there
Dr. Ralph McKinney discusses career
amid memorabilia of his trips to the
Grand Teton mountains in Wyoming.
should be a way to handle student
disease
problems, to work with them and
encourage them."
"We
Consequently, the Department of
Oral Pathology has an open-door
policy.
Students are told early
quarter to
call their
in
professors at
home or to make office appointments
when questions arise.
'
'The important thing
is
that our
not well defined,'
disease together and
put
'
the
is
it
'
in their
own
let
a
members
mentor
to
as a
each of
"I try to stimulate the faculty to be
achievers, creators, to set goals.
class)
because the lectures are good, and
He
is
them.
McKinney said.
'We want them to come (to
they
tries to unite the depart-
five faculty
team, and he
in a lecture
format," Dr.
'
McKinney
ment's
words.'
'We approach teaching
do.'
things
to improve our curriculum.
After 18 years at
in
for
We
ways
get
I
education, Dr.
MCG and 35 years
McKinney
is
glad he
didn't get discouraged by his dental
school professors.
enjoy education because of the
the students.
feedback from the students and then
'We go in and tell the students
what's expected of them in each
course so they can anticipate the
quarter," he said.
try to be creative with our
diversification.
approaches," he
the same; they each hold different
'
Dr.
McKinney
thinks teaching
pathology requires a creative
approach.
'
'Pathology
is
different than other
subjects. It's not well defined
because
said.
Aside from teaching responsibilities,
help
them with their career direction, help
them understand what it takes to
make it in the academic realm."
also thinks educating requires a
good deal of listening.
"We're constantly looking
as well as interesting, for
said.
the students
number-one constituency is our
students," he said. So he tries to keep
fair,
he
try to bring the aspects of
'
'I
No two
days are ever
challenges. There's the opportunity to
the Department of Oral Pathology has
share knowledge with the next
a consulting and biopsy service.
generation of the profession and the
They're also busy with oral cancer
and oral implants research.
It's a busy department, like many in
an academic medical center. But Dr.
opportunity to grow
in
terms of
scholarly activities.'
But he doesn't have
a Cadillac.
—Karin Calloway
Annual Report
29
Travelin
On
the road again.
Dr. Donald G.
headed
Dr.
Murphy
Man
is
to Milledgeville, Ga.
His mission there and
throughout Georgia
is
to ask the prac-
nurse and
ticing doctor, dentist,
need
to
keep abreast
of their respec-
tive professions.
Then he
College
He
how the Medical
of Georgia can meet the need.
figures out
travels with a
ence, a briefcase
head
full
full
of experi-
of continuing
education offerings and an old milk
case
full
of files in the back of his van.
His first call that day is on Dr. Luis
Samper, a pediatrician and coordinator
for the Baldwin County continuing
education program. Dr. Samper's face
is
a familiar one.
Ongoing continuing education needs
of this health care community bring
MCG faculty to town at least every
month.
30
is
throughout Georgia with Georgia's
He
is
assistant director of extension
services for the
Dr.
Samper takes time out
the traveling link that
health sciences university.
allied
health professional what they want or
Murphy
connects these types of needs
of his
MCG Division of
Continuing Education.
This job makes him part salesman,
busy patient schedule to see Dr.
Murphy because he appreciates the
ambassador, marketing
specialist,
need
computer operator and
traveler.
for continuing education.
"I am extremely grateful for these
programs you do for us,' Dr. Samper
said. They help the medical staff keep
abreast of the real advances in
medicine and basic science, he said.
Later that day, Dr. Murphy calls on
Baldwin County Hospital and an MCG
alum, Dr. James W. Mimbs, who is
chief medical officer and director of
'
medical education
at
Central State
Hospital.
He shows
the latest
in
MCG's con-
tinuing education wares and asks
how
MCG can meet the hospitals' needs.
"I think our mission
continuing education
is
is
to see that
available to the
health care providers in Georgia
regardless of
where they
are.
'My particular mission, for those
who don't often leave their practice,
'
the solo practitioner
who
stays there
and works year after year after year
and doesn't take much time off, is to
bring him the best through our faculty
in his location at a time and a place he
designates.
'
'In
other words,
we
are providing
up-to-date information to him with the
Donald Murphy discusses continu-
Dr.
ing education programs with
James
Mimbs
W.
on
least effort
in Dr.
his part
Dr.
Mimbs'
office.
and the least
love his job too
He
disruption of his practice.'
Murphy's job
Dr.
a unique one.
is
In fact, as best the
possible.
is
Continuing Education and the Accredi-
new
dure to a group of specialists,
and back roads of Georgia.
mean
Experience has taught him he can
Medical
MCG is the only
Murphy visits.
may mean teaching
Dr.
Murphy rarely makes appointments when he travels the highways
Dr.
MCG Division of
tation Council for Continuing
as diverse as the needs of the people
much.
sure that
isn't
It
a
proceit
may
updating physicians and nurses
on the
latest in infection control,
may mean
it
school that has a traveling salesman of
see most dentists in their offices first
thing in the morning, that doctors are
teach courses such as advanced car-
sorts for continuing education.
back from the hospital and
diac
Education can
tell,
The salesman averages 25,000
miles a year and wouldn't have
it
any
other way.
He
likes
new
horizons.
He's a veteran of 21 years
Army
U.S.
the
in
offices
by mid-morning, that the noon
hour
a
is
good time
to catch hospital
support (ACLS).
life
on (the
"It's a lot of extra effort
faculty's) part," Dr.
Murphy
said. It
administrators and by the afternoon,
may mean juggling
doctors and dentists both usually are
hundreds of miles
in their offices.
ing to a relatively small group.
He's squeezed
medical evacuation
flying
in their
certifying instructors to
in
between patients
schedules, driving
in a
day and speak-
He's sure some people must
helicopters in the Korean and Vietnam
and viewed mostly as a welcome
grimace when he or Norma Robinson,
conflicts.
sight.
administrative coordinator for the
was entering my
first year of law school in Oklahoma
City.' All his friends were being called
'
was 1950 and
'It
But he does run across physicians
I
or dentists
who
program,
call.
But he brags about
are angry with the
a faculty
who go
help alleviate that situation and then
beyond the call of duty in trying to
work these continuing education programs into busy schedules.
"Without this dedicated faculty, my
job would be meaningless and ineffective," he said.
That willingness to help combined
and figured that would be more fun
get back to that physician or dentist or
with the diversity of the faculty means
than flying a desk.
the department will get back to him.'
'
to war.
The United
were losing badly
States and
the time.
at
Murphy decided to put in his two
years with the Army then go back
a helicopter buzzing
"It turned out to be a lot of
listen to
will
I
him as long
come back
and go to the appropriate department
to
around
work
with the appropriate school and talk
.'
This
But what work.
flew into battle to retrieve injured
soldiers.
He
flew
flood
fire,
rescue missions.
and moun-
He never knew
what was coming next and loved it that
way, staying on flight status until the
was long
forgot-
part of his
ambassador
role.
am trying to
speakers. So
About that time, D wight David
Eisenhower Army Medical Center
was being established as a regional
any other sales job,
'
Five years ago he
made
it's
a people job.
'We have someone out from the
several times every week
move
in
the
state,'
'
about 24 Georgia hospitals as part of
community hospital program. For
some
of those hospitals, these protheir only continuing educa-
I
thing different.
can work on someI
can work with our
computer programs. I can go somewhere in the state and speak with
people. I can meet someone new.'
His wife has told him he just may
we have
'
'These
talks
feel
with
that
need
to
a
size varies for these pro-
may be
held in a
community
or 50 physicians.
five
give your best to a small group,'
Murphy
said.
"But
it's
Dr.
'
a great oppor-
physicians will
call if
face to face so the
know someone they
they have a question, need a
consultation or a referral.'
He
noted a regular program held
Adel, Ga., a small
modern
community with
be geared to
hospital and an obvious desire
they are
dentist can take back to his office the
every
next morning and implement
out of a speaker.
practice."
Continuing education offerings are
to last
an hour. Sometimes, four hours
those type things that the physician or
in his
in
a
to learn.
"The program is supposed
tion programs.
cation.
grams
can
MCG provides regular programs in
grams are
I
education and information.'
meet physicians
he
said.
to
As such,
tunity for our faculty to go out and
its
the
are Georgia's health sciences
"It takes dedication to go out and
a sales job, but like
speaking somewhere
MCG Division of Continuing Edu-
"Every day
it's
campus
residency programs.
Murphy
requester find the source that can.
Audience
our national
our faculty to them as
to sell
the
sell
programs, our regional programs and
national health care organization.
Army.
He went there in 1974 to open the
education office and help build the
rare occasion, Dr.
help the doctor, hospital or other
vide certain things. (Those include)
continuing
sell
education and more specifically con-
administrator for a California-based
and education center for the
On that
will
responsibility to these people to pro-
College of Georgia, to
referral
MCG
providers.
were on
After retirement, he worked as an
rarely gets requests
university.
tinuing education from the Medical
mind.
Murphy
needs of Georgia's health care
ten and education and health care
his
Dr.
cannot meet.
"We
best suit the continuing education
"I
then, law school
is
As a marketing expert and salesman, he's offering the expertise of the
MCG faculty in a package designed to
day he retired.
By
and
with the chairman or whoever can
He saw
tain
will sit
as he wants to talk.
school.
He
"I
its allies
Don
well
still
going strong.
later,
They wring
last bit of information
they can
Our people just
love
to go.'
—Toni Baker
Annual Report
31
JA
m^Bf
Bgm
onald
Wayne C ours on was
plucked from his high school
peers by a wrestling coach
looking to
the smallest
fill
Going for
the Gold
weight class on his team.
The coach and
the experience were
impressive.
Maybe Ron would be
a high school
coach.
Maybe
not.
"I used to wonder
when I was
in
college," he said.
Ron stopped wondering when he
learned about a breed called the
athletic trainer.
"I wouldn't trade
for anything,"
it
said the president of the
MCG
physical therapy class of 1989.
In athletic training,
sports medicine.
requisites for physical therapy.
'Whatever sport you are in, you
always have a goal, whether it's to win
He worked at the University of
Tennessee as a graduate assistant
'
Ron works with
league championship or to go
coaches, combining the opportunity to
a
prevent injuries
the Olympics or to
the well-tuned
in
bodies of athletes with the chance to
restore excellent health
when
injury
Every professional team, college
When injuries
occur, they evaluate, treat and
rehabilitate the athlete.
work with the food an
maximize
'
in
his health
athlete eats to
and well-being.
'The vast majority of injuries occur
site that
can say
what is wrong and whether the athlete
needs to see a doctor immediately or
if it
'
can
wait,'
'A lot of
'
Ron
really ade-
quately prepared to do that," he said.
'
'And
it's
not good for a coach to
a decision
on whether
a kid
make
needs to
game when saving his
depends on how well the team
get back into a
job
desire to optimize his profes-
sional skills led
Ron
to
pursue a
Along the way he also worked as an
normal
Ron
lifestyle,"
exercise technician at Sports
Medicine and Fitness Institute in
Birmingham, as head student athletic
trainer at Samford, as student assistant athletic trainer for the
said.
The
field excites
and challenges him.
Leagues' Birmingham Stallions and he
also took the 27-year-old
worked as an
amateur athletes each country can
at
muster.
Colts.
Ron was an
Sept. 17 through Oct. 3
in
team
really fun,"
he said of
The
profes-
were just normal
people. But with them, he said, it was
apparent that sports
selected by the United
is
not only a
pleasure, but a business.
for the
of five physicians and 14 athletic
650 American
athletes for the summer games.
"I guess it's something you always
dream about as a little kid, about getting to go the the Olympics. It's a
trainers that served
'
of the Indianapolis
sional football players
Seoul,
Committee
camp
time spent with the Colts.
held
South Korea.
He was
athletic training assistant
the training
"That was
athletic trainer for the
Summer Olympics which was
now-
defunct United States Football
across the world to the finest
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity'
does."
The
a
they just want to be able to go back
live their
program.
off-time,
Or
tional activities they did before.
and
On weekends and
he volunteered as a physical
therapy aide at Erlanger Hospital in
Chattanooga.
athletic
to return to their job. Or,
States Olympic
said.
coaches aren't
They want
It
They even
competition or practice. You want to
have somebody on
athletic trainer with the intercollegiate
they want to be able to do the recrea-
athletic
programs now have these athletic
trainers. They observe practice, looking for injuries. They use preventive
techniques like wrapping and taping to
help prevent injuries.
make a professional football club," Ron said.
"It applies the exact same way to
patient. Their goals are just different.
transforms athletes to patients.
and even some high school
little
said
"His body becomes more important
him for that reason,' Ron said.
"He has to be healthy in order for him
to go out and work.'
to
'
In the
first
summer of 1985, Ron
taste of the
Olympics as
got his
a
selected volunteer athletic trainer for
the U.S. Olympic Training Center in
the self-described retired athlete.
The opportunity was the result of a
Ron already has devoted
Colorado Springs, Colo. The next
physical therapy degree at the Medical
lot of effort
summer he was
College of Georgia.
to his profession and to the Olympics.
Festival athletic trainer at a national
He earned his bachelor of science
degree in physical education and
event designed to develop and pro-
education from Samford University
country.
"It enhances your credentials. It's
going to give
me a lot more
experi-
ence, just a broader education base,'
Ron
said of the physical therapy
degree he
is
earning.
additional training
in
is
And seeking
this
becoming a trend
the world of athletic trainers and
32
in
Birmingham, then began night course
at the University of Tennesseee
at Chattanooga toward a master's in
work
physical education while taking pre-
a U.S. Olympic
mote amateur Olympics
Last year he worked
in this
in
Yugoslavia
as a trainer with the U.S. track and
team
Games.
field
at the
World University
has put that
that
much
much work and
discipline,"
applied
he said of
Olympic athletes.
'They have dedicated themselves
to be the very best at something they
can be and have put countless hours of
work, effort and sweat into it.
"I think a lot of Olympic athletes
are blessed with natural, God-given
talent. But it still takes a tremendous
amount of work and desire at that
'
because
level,
it's
world-class
compe-
the very best in the world," the
tition,
young trainer said. "I'm happy
in any way that I can.'
Ron
to help
also sees the athletes as having
a task that
is
perhaps larger than that
of the athlete; the role of being an
example and a
role
model
for the
United States.
In July as he looked toward the
Olympics and talked about the experi-
ence, his itinerary looked like this:
Aug. 6 Ron was to
Barbara,
Calif.
the track and
,
for a
fly to
Santa
mini-camp with
field athletes that lasted
Then on to
Los Angeles for a pre-Olympic stop to
check out all track and field athletes
until
the end of the month.
before the
flight
overseas.
Sept. 5 they were to
Chio,
fly to
Japan near Tokyo, for an assembly of
the track and field team.
Here the
athletes got used to the time and
climate changes before flying on to
Seoul.
The Olympic
Village in Seoul
was
designed to offer everything the athletes
need from medical care
to a post
office.
Ron, Karen Middleton, an athletic
from
Birmingham, Ala., and one of the physicians were assigned primarily to the
track and field team. They covered all
trainer and physical therapist
the practices and meets, looking to
prevent injuries, conferring with the
coaches, evaluating, treating and
rehabilitating athletes with injuries,
In 1988
he reached the top rung
with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
work
at the
Olympic Games.
He knew for a full year before the
games he'd be working with these
premier athletes. This chance will
delay his graduation by about six
months and was made possible by the
flexibility
offered by the
MCG Physical
Therapy Program.
Ron
is
now
participating in
making sure that pre-competition
meals provided the necessary fuel.
They also worked in a round-the-clock
clinic
some
designed for the athletes.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportu-
Ron
he
extra sports medicine affiliations until
nity,"
he can start school again in January.
But all the shuffling appears to be
worth it.
'You have to admire somebody who
been a boyhood dream. I'm
'
said before
left.
"It's
still
having
trouble accepting the fact that I'm
actually going to be able to go.'
—Toni Baker
Annual Report
33
Dr. Robert A. Parrish (center)
operates on child.
Jra| nne
MM
When you correct a congenital
Moore Jones has never
anomaly in a child, you've got somebody with a potential lifespan of 70 to
75 years. That's nice to know that you
forgotten.
About being the well-loved
Mfmi
youngest of three children.
About being a mischievous little
from Nashville, Ga. far away from
had some part
girl
Advances
,
home
place called Augusta.
in a
About being an
would
kill
produced miniature
and
ventilators to breathe for babies
made
11- year-old child
with a huge malignant tumor that odds
said
in that.'
that
intravenous feeding possible
widened the scope
of help surgeons
could offer children.
her.
Then there were children like Anne.
The mass in her belly was a Wilms'
"I remember exactly where I was
when my stomach started hurting.'
She was with her family
at
her
common
tumor, a
solid
tumor
of the
The
grandfather's house in Sparks, near
kidney typically found
her hometown of Nashville. Her
older the child, the less chance of
grandfather had been
were outside
playing.
ill. The children
They heard
Anne
cure.
He
father's house. Hearts pounding, they
dormant
'
'When we jumped
this ditch,
something in my side grabbed me, like
when you pull a muscle or something.
It started hurting and it hurt until the
next day' Her mother tried the
'
routine stomach pain remedies.
failed.
She
finally
They
asked her daughter
where it hurt. Anne pointed to her
side. Her mother reached to feel a
huge lump.
It was the beginning of a journey
that would lead them first to their
family doctor, then to two surgeons in
nearby Tifton, Ga. and finally to Dr.
Robert A. Parrish and the Medical
,
College of Georgia.
Living
Proof
When he went
Memphis
to
surgical residency, he
added
University of Tennessee at Memphis.
Dr. Parrish had
known almost
immediately after he started medical
school at
that he wanted to be a
MCG
surgeon.
"I liked the idea of surgery, of
somebody coming
in
with an acute
problem that you could usually do
something about, by operating on
them, getting them well, seeing them
recover and go home," he said.
A required course in dog surgery
convinced him, so much so that he
spent his summer working as an
34
Odds were
11 years old.
against her.
Dr. Parrish told her parents, Gerald
Anne knew the
it
was touch
odds. She'd
pretended to sleep while doctors
year to his training, focusing on
discussed her case before she arrived
pediatric surgery and thoracic
in
surgery. In 1962 he joined the faculty
her medical record and saw familiar
of his alma mater.
words
It
It
was
a
dynamic time
in this
The
of a recog-
larger children's
were turning out surgeons
the needs of children.
specific job to take care of pediatric
surgery.
"I
He wanted
like children.
the job.
There are so many
congenital problems with children that
can be recognized. .and treated.
.
Augusta. She also sneaked a look
like
at
tumor and malignant.
Maybe it
Maybe it was
"I really wasn't scared."
was because
country.
was becoming more
hospitals
for pediatric
Two-year fellowships for pediatric
surgery began developing. The Journal
of Pediatric Surgery was born. Its first
editor was Dr. C. Everett Koop. The
American Pediatric Surgical Association was founded. Later, a matching
program for pediatric surgery
fellowships was developed.
When Dr. Parrish came back to
MCG, he found pediatric surgery
patients were seen by surgical faculty
on a rotating basis. It was nobody's
during his residency training at the
But Anne was
for his
a sixth
care for children.
surgery
radiation
rates shot up to about 85 percent.
and go.
who focused on
fallen for pediatric
when
old University Hospital.
goal to provide specialized surgical
He'd
cent cure rate. Later,
and Nancy Moore, that
nized speciality.
realization of his long-time
In the early days, surgical removal of
the tumor resulted in a 40 to 50 per-
orderly on the surgical wards in the
organized pediatric surgery service.
was the
laid
for years.
bined with surgery, five-year survival
surgery
It
speculated that her tumor
therapy and chemotherapy were com-
was March 1973.
Eleven months before, Dr. Parrish
had been appointed chief of the newly
It
the oldest child Dr.
Parrish has ever seen with this tumor.
sirens in the direction of her grand-
ran back to the house.
still is
in babies.
of her age.
because her family had a strong faith
and she was confident of a heaven.
Then there was her doctor.
"He was
kind of like a buddy, a
Anne
already had been poked
and prodded plenty by the time she
friend."
got to Augusta. She
remembers
Parrish seeing her for the
first
Dr.
time,
dismissing the troop of medical stu-
dents and laying his hand gently on
her.
She remembers
fishing
Dr. Parrish talking
and hunting with her
She remembers
her a pass so she could eat
cafeteria with her mom.
She remembers
taken
father.
Dr. Parrish getting
in
the
that the X-rays
in Tifton offered little
hope
the tumor could be surgically
removed.
'
'Dr. Parrish said
one day
to
that
Anne
their
Jones, husband Jeff relax at
Bartow County home.
with quality control for the
Cobb
County Department of Family and
Children Services. She is thinking
about going back into social work,
possibly with children
or, at
the other
end of the spectrum, a nursing home.
She still remembers a tall attractive
social worker at MCG who went out
to buy her Kentucky fried chicken and
mashed potatoes when chemotherapy
had robbed her appetite for nearly
everything.
She, husband Jeff and their two bird
dogs
live in
where they
tain
the
hills
of
Bartow County
moun-
fish for trout in the
streams, camp, water ski and
hunt.
Anne seems no worse
of her early
for the
wear
life.
But the experience left her feeling
and a little special.
She's thought more than once that
maybe there is something she must do
with her life. 'There may be just one
person somewhere that I could help.'
lucky, blessed
'
And
it
has
her with a lasting
left
affection.
'
'If
something was really bad wrong
I would want to go where Dr.
with me,
Parrish
is.
thing and
Because he
made
"Obviously,
good,'
part
'
in
it all
it
fixed every-
right."
makes you
feel
Dr. Parrish said of playing a
Anne's story and other suc-
cessful outcomes.
But as those stories yield big gains,
unsuccessful ones net big losses.
"It's hard to see a child die. You
never get used to
quit," he said.
it.
If
I
ever do,
I'll
"If it were all left up to us, it would
be very, very depressing at times. But
we've got help from nursing practitioners, particularly in oncology, that
play a vital role in emotional support."
This
is
care also
when the team approach to
becomes an emotional sup-
port group for families and health care
providers.
'We have a lot of help. Without
them, it would be difficult."
Help has grown significantly for the
'
Momma,
'Well, miracles
out of the "scrawny"
do happen.'
My mom very strongly believes that
as Dr. Parrish said, that
it
was
a
miracle that they were even able to
operate
much less that I am running
my one kidney happy as
around with
lark."
When
Dr. Parrish took the
tumor
a
11- year-old,
the
tumor was large enough to hold in his
two hands.
Working with Dr. Dorothy Hahn,
courses of chemotherapy and radiation
therapy were carried out.
Today Anne is a 27-year-old social
worker by training who is working
care of these pediatric patients at
MCG since Dr.
a faculty
Parrish's early days as
member.
After he began the pediatric surgery
service in 1972
,
Dr. Parrish esta-
blished a 25-bed pediatric surgery
nursing unit so the young patients
Annual Report
35
'
'
could be grouped.
Two
Hospital in 1980.
years later he
residents to rotate through the
was back. Now Drs. Parrish and
Howell work as a team, dividing up
pediatric surgery service. Several of
cases and taking
He made
it
possible for surgery
the residents have been prompted to
go on to pediatric surgery fellowships.
Dr. Parrish
is
who wanted
to secure
proud that any resident
a fellowship has
been able
one of the competitive
the residents
who
have helped
hold Dr. Parrish in an academic setting
for
'
26 years.
get a sense of accomplishment
'I
out of thinking
I
might have had
something to do with training young
people to go out and do good
first
Dr. Parrish
eight of his
was the only
26 years,
pediatric
surgeon at MCG. Then in July 1978,
Dr. Charles G. Howell, a general
surgery resident, was made MCG's
first
special pediatric surgery fellow.
He was
given faculty status
in
1979 and
selected for a pediatric fellowship with
Dr.
36
Koop
at Philadelphia Children's
of 1989 a third
Robyn
Hatley, will return to
MCG
after a two-year fellowship at
Charles G.
and family medicine intern Stacie
Wong confer about a patient during
rounds.
grown from a rotational serone-man show to, hopefully, a
three-man show," he
in
trauma patients, cancer
patients, neonates with congenital
defects and so on.
I
got
some
help," Dr.
Parrish chuckled.
'
'I
think
we
are bulging at the
seams
now," he said, noting the phenomenal growth not only in pediatric
surgery but in the burgeoning Departof Pediatrics with
it
has become very obvious
utilize that
space as a children's
A needs
assessment
for the
children's medical center
down and
is
its
many
winding
a master plan for the center
already has been developed.
"We
in that
in
have a real neat situation here
the town private practitioners
pediatrics are general pediatricians
and the medical school faculty are
largely subspecialty pediatricians.
think that combination will
right
ment
think
more space, but we could better
many forms:
in
"I'm glad
'I
everybody that we not only need
hospital."
said.
The numbers also have grown from
no more than 200 major procedures a
year to 600 major cases per year for
Drs. Parrish and Howell.
Growth has come
'
to
it's
vice to a
subspecialists.
Chicago
Children's Hospital.
increases
surgery.'
For the
summer
the
left),
Howell, senior resident David Rogers
pediatric surgery attending, Dr.
"So
positions.
It's
By
call.
Drs. Parrish (from
make
We
a
tremendous attraction for a children's
where we can all put the
children in one place and work
facility
together.'
—Toni Baker
Medical College of Georgia Foundation, Inc.
Board of Directors
Chenault W. Hailey, M.D.
Offiicers
GA
Atlanta,
Term Expires 1990
James H. Hamilton, Director
Community Bank Marketing &
Product Development
The
Citizens and Southern Corp.
Atlanta,
GA
Harold Harrison, M.D.
Atlanta,
GA
M.D.
William C. Collins,
1991
Atlanta
Atlanta
Robert A. Matthew, M.D.
M.D.
Albany,
GA
Term Expires 1989
W. McEver, Jr. M.D.
Warner Robins, GA
Virgle
-r ~
,
Term Expires
1991
GA
Augusta,
GA
Newman
Gainesville,
III,
M.D.
GA
Term Expires 1989
First
I 'ice
President
H. Gordon Davis, M.D.
Sylvester,
GA
Whitney C. O'Keeffe
McEver, Jr., M.D.
Warner Robins, GA
President
Trust
Company Bank
Augusta,
Russell A. Acree, Sr.,
Adel,
M.D.
GA
Arthur C. Baxter
Executive Vice President
The
First National
Atlanta,
Bank
GA
Douglasville,
GA
M.D.
Term Expires 1990
Members
Executive Director
Bruce L. Howerton
Augusta
William C. Collins.
Atlanta,
M.D.
GA
Term Expires
H. Gordon Davis, M.D.
Sylvester,
GA
Term Expires 1989
Assistant Secretary Treasurer
Larry Tyler
Augusta
John C. Hagler. Ill
Augusta, GA
Term Expires 1993
MBA
School of Graduate Studies
Alumni Association
BI H-206
LoisT. Ellison, M.D.
President
Francis
J.
Tedesco, M.D.
President
1991
GA
President
GA
Officio
Augusta,
Geraldine Rinker,
Term Expires 1993
of Atlanta
Ex
David Dickey, D.M.D.
President
Alumni Association
TN
Term Expires 1992
Alumni Association
BI H-203
School of Dentistry
Asbury Clark Robinson, M.D.
Macon,
Walter E. Brown, M.D.
Hill.
GA
William C. Shirley,
Term Expires 1990
Spring
of Augusta
GA
Term Expires 1989
Term Expires 1993
BE-123
School of Allied Health Sciences
Jerry G. Purvis, M.D.
Valdosta.
Mary E. Conway, Ph.D., Dean
School of Nursing
President
Term Expires 1989
Elected Members
Dean
Martha Harrington, M.T.
Secretary -Treas urer
Virgle
Interim
AA-152
M.D.
Term Expires 1992
Harvey M.
Vice President for Research
CB 1-D24
School of Medicine
Term Expires 1993
William B. Mullins,
Lowell M. Greenbaum, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Graduate
Studies and
Charles H. Wray, M.D.
Lamar Scott McGinnis, M.D.
Atlanta,
School of Dentistry
AD-109
Vice President
Chenault W. Hailey, M.D.
AA-168
GA
Term Expires
Second
Dean
Acting Dean
Milford B. Hatcher,
President
BiagioJ. Vericella, Ed.D.
Interim
Leon A. Leonard, D.D.S.
Term Expires 1992
Macon,
for Development
EA-100
School of Allied Health Sciences
Term Expires 1992
J.
Bruce L. Howerton
Acting Vice President
AA-311
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Vice President for
Business
and Finance
AA-311
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Alumni Association
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