STEPHEN GARDNER
William Maul Measey, 1875-1967
nearly 20 professorships as well as scores of innovative programs that have improved methods and modes of medical education in Philadelphia. Measey professorships are active at the University of Pennsylvania in numerous fields of medicine and surgery, benefitting medical education. At Drexel University College of Medicine, the trustees endowed the William Maul Measey Chair in Medical
Education, a position dedicated to academic innovation. The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University boasts an endowed William Maul Measey Chair in Surgery, held by the internationally renowned cardiovascular surgeon Yoshiya Toyoda, MD, PhD. According to Measey Foundation trustee Stanley Goldfarb, MD, innovation is Measey’s “brand.” The trustees have a knack for spotting the most effective emerging methods and techniques of education. In 2005, for example, when the Foundation began funding simulation centers, including the William Maul Measey Institute for Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety at Temple, simulation labs were experimental. Today, they’re required, standard fare in medical education. Since 1976, the Measey Foundation has awarded more than 200 scholarships to students at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, culminating in over $4.5 million in scholarship awards over the years. “Temple medical students write us thank-you letters. It’s beyond gratifying to see how much our support means to them,” says Goldfarb, describing his trusteeship of the Foundation as “an honor and a privilege.” Arthur Rubenstein, MD, a past dean of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, once described the Measey Foundation as “people utterly committed to the future of medicine and medical education.” “I couldn’t agree more,” says Larry Kaiser, MD, FACS, the Lewis Katz Dean at the School of Medicine and Temple Health CEO. “The Measey Foundation really has an amazing story, full of unlikely turns, all tied to a once-incurable disease. Is there, anywhere in America, a foundation that has done more to benefit medical education innovation in Philadelphia than the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation? Measey’s commitment is unmatched.” SUMMER 2017 | TEMPLE HEALTH MAGAZINE |
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