Hainline Indianapolis and New York
MD’82
Brian
■ First (and current) chief medical
officer of the NCAA ■ Chief medical officer of the
U.S. Open Tennis Championships ■ Chair of the board and president
of the United States Tennis Association ■ Architect of a joint 25-year
concussion study by the NCAA and the U.S. Department of Defense
PHOTOS COURTESY OF NCAA PHOTOS
Powerful Pritzker influences
Pritzker faculty and staff had a major impact on Hainline’s life and career. Mentors included founding Chair of Neurology Barry Arnason, MD, who introduced Hainline to the fast-growing field of neuroimmunology, and cancer expert John Ultmann, MD, whom the students nicknamed “The Ultimate Man” because of his strict demands for order. “Ultmann ran everything like a Marine sergeant,” Hainline said. “I learned more from him about medicine than anyone in my life.” A philosophy major and top tennis player at the University of Notre Dame, Hainline also bonded with internist Mark Siegler, MD, who established the field of clinical medical ethics. The two often engaged in long discussions about moral medical decisions. While at Pritzker, Hainline met his future wife, Pascale, a Sorbonne graduate working on a post-master’s fellowship in economics at the University of Chicago. The two lived in the same dorm, International House. They’ve been married for more than 43 years. Their daughter, Juliette, is a 2018 UChicago alumna with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Hainline continues to support the school through donations and volunteering his service to students. “University of Chicago was foundational for who I am as a physician and who I am as a human being,” he said. A tragedy becomes a mission
One of Hainline’s closest friends at UChicago was Randy Chauvin, a PhD student who developed glioblastoma and died before graduating. Devastated, Hainline finished his neurology residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and focused his attention on research to find a cure for this still-fatal disease. Brian Hainline, MD’82, speaks to the University of Chicago women’s tennis team, which finished in May 2023 as NCAA Division III runner-up.
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Paving new paths
Six years into his brain tumor research, a friend and former resident colleague called Hainline from the Hospital for Joint