75 YEARS OF VISION: THE LASTING GIFT
1983
For Southwestern Medical Foundation, George L. MacGregor is elected Chairman Emeritus, James W. Aston is elected Chairman and James W. Keay is elected President.
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A challenge grant by Southwestern Medical Foundation is matched by the Meadows Foundation to establish a state-of-the-art cardiac laboratory at Parkland Hospital.
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Southwestern Medical Foundation establishes a $100,000 scholarship fund honoring the late Harold B. Sanders, Sr., who was an original member of the Board of Trustees, serving for 41 years and as its general counsel for 35 years. His son, Charles A. Sanders, MD, was a 1955 graduate of UT Southwestern and would later become Chairman and CEO of Glaxo Inc., a leading researchbased pharmaceutical firm. “UT Southwestern is the institution that shaped me Ann and Charles A. Sanders, MD
as a physician, and I will always be very grateful for the wonderful experiences it afforded me,” Dr. Sanders said. Dr. Sanders' brother, Judge Barefoot Sanders, would preside over the desegregation of Dallas Independent School District.
____________ As a result of lobbying by George Buchanan, MD, UT Southwestern Professor of Pediatrics, and Donald Fernbach, MD, then Chief of Hematology and Oncology at Houston’s Texas Children’s Hospital, the State of Texas begins screening all newborn babies for sickle cell disease. The screening proves extremely accurate and allows for early, preventive measures critical to extending life. George Buchanan, MD
Two separate research groups, an American team at the National Cancer Institute and a French team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, independently declare that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting AIDS patients. The two viruses turn out to be the same, and in 1986, LAV and HTLV-III are renamed HIV. The image is a transmission electron micrograph of the human immunodeficiency virus ( shown in the larger cells). It was taken in 1983 and is one of the first photos of the virus.
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