Transcript Tribute to William Earle Matory, Sr., M.D., FACS

Tribute to
William Earle Matory, Sr., M.D., FACS
William Earle Matory, Sr., M.D., FACS
Thursday, May 7, 2009
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Ambulatory Care Center
Tower Auditorium
Washington, DC 20060
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Program Agenda
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Moderator: Edward E. Cornwell III, M.D., FACS, FACM
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Opening Prayer
– Reverend, Dr. Bernard Richardson
Dean, Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel
Howard University
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Welcoming Remarks
– Robert E. Taylor, M.D., Ph.D
Dean, College of Medicine
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Tributes:
– Edward E. Cornwell III, M.D., FACS, FCCM,
FWACS (Hon.)
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery, Howard University Hospital
– LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., FACS, FWACS (Hon.)
Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery
Howard University, College of Medicine
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Program Agenda
(continued)
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L.D. Britt, M.D., MPH, FACS, FCCM
Brickhouse Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
Executive Director, Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS)
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Samuel Adebenojo, M.D., FACS, FWACS
Secretary General, West Africa College of Surgeons
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Fred Cason, M.D., FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery, Residency Program Director
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Historian, Surgical Section National Medical Association & SBAS
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Suryanarayana Siram, M.D., FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief, Trauma & Critical Care Howard
University Hospital
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Jose C. Brillante
Surgical Laboratory Technician
Howard University
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Robert H. Williams, M.D.
Associate Professor, Community and Family Medicine
Howard University
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Fernando Daniels III, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Howard University Hospital
Former Medical Director and Assistant Chief, D.C. Fire/EMS
Final Remarks
– Rita Rigor-Matory
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William Earle Matory, Sr., M.D., FACS
October 1, 1928 – January 26, 2009
Dr. William Earle Matory has distinguished himself as a Howard
University alumnus, a surgeon, teacher and innovator with local and national
leadership recognition. Dr. Matory is known locally and nationally for his
contributions to trauma care, burn care, continuing medical education,
participation in American College o f Surgeons, participation in the National
Medical Association and the developer of a number of new programs at
Howard University, including the Family Practice Training Program and
department.
His activity in the Howard University College of Liberal Arts
included being the business manager of the campus newspaper, The Hilltop,
880-yard runner on the 1947 CIAA Championship track team, member of
the student council, and president of the Class of 1949. He also is president
of the Howard University Medical Class of 1953.
His medical specialty training includes an internship in Philadelphia
General Hospital and surgical residency at Freedmen’s Hospital system,
which included the Staten Island United States Public Health Hospital and
Norfolk Community Hospital. His residency was interrupted by service as
captain in the United States Air Force (Japan) from 1955 to 1957. He was
certified by the American Board of Surgery in 1961 and recertified in 1980.
He served a surgical fellowship from 1961 to 1962 and a renal fellowship at
Howard University Hospital with the late Edward Hawthorne from 1963 to
1965, and received special renal dialysis training at the District of Columbia
Veterans Administrative Hospital from 1964 to 1996. He was responsible
for the burn service at Howard University Hospital. His general surgery
practice, from 1960 until his retirement from practice in 1997, included
trauma care and general surgery with special interest in colon/rectal surgery.
He is licensed to practice medicine in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.
He became professor of surgery, Howard University College of
Medicine, in 1971. His teaching contributions include the teaching of
gastrointestinal surgery and trauma care and the development of the popular
course: Surgical Skills course: Surgical Pathophysiology. He had had full
responsibility in the surgery curriculum for 37 years involving
approximately 4,000 medical students. He developed the primary care and
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William Earle Matory, Sr., M.D., FACS
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October 1, 1928 – January 26, 2009
surgical fellowships for rising junior students. The 100 student- surgical
fellows and primary care student fellows include winners of competitive
forums throughout the country. He was awarded the Student Council
Teaching and Leadership Award in 1962, 1982 and 1984; Alpha Omega Alpha
Medical Society faculty induction in 1983 and the Distinguished Scholar –
Teacher Award in the Howard University Health Affairs division in 1985. He
has received multiple other University and community awards.
Additional activity in the College of Medicine includes the following:
He was director of the Medical Education for National Defense Program
(MEND) for training in mass casualty care from 1961 to 1967. He developed
the Howard University program in Continuing Medical Education (CME) in
1965, the first among the CME programs in the Washington Metropolitan
area to be certified by the American Medical Association (AMA), the Liaison
Council of Continuing Medical Education, and currently the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education. (The Howard University CME
program has been continuously certified with frequent commendations since
its inception. It is a dependable source for CME certification for Howard
faculty and community physicians.)
He established the Department of Family Practice and served as its
first chairman from 1970 to 1979. He was co-founder of the Physician
Assistant Training Program at Howard in 1972. He initiated the Annual
Resident/Faculty Competitive Research Forum and the "Magnificent
Professor" Recognition Ceremony in 1986.
His hospital activity includes the directorship of the Emergency Care
Area at Freedmen’s Hospital/Howard University Hospital from 1960 to 1982.
(The Freedmen’s Hospital/Howard University Hospital emergency medical
system was the leading hospital emergency system in the Washington
Metropolitan area from 1962 to 1980.) He reorganized the Howard
University Hospital ambulatory care system to ease emergency care followup and facilitate continuity. He began the hemodialysis service at Freedmen’s
Hospital in 1966 and introduced vascular as a service in 1970 in preparation
for the Howard University Hospital chronic dialysis and renal transplantation
programs.
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Dr. William E. Matory Memorial Fund
Distinguished Professorship in Surgery
Donations should be made payable to
“H.U. College of Medicine”
And mailed to the attention of:
Karine A. Sewell
Director of Development
Howard University College of Medicine
2225 Georgia Avenue, NW, Suite 922
Washington, DC 20059
** Please be certain that “Matory Professorship
Memorial Fund” is written in the memo
section of the check.
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