Donald Seldin : the maestro of medicine / Raymond S. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Raymond S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seldin, Donald W., 1920-2018.

Seldin, Donald W.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas--History.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Medical teaching personnel--Biography.

Medical teaching personnel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Health Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In 1951 Donald Seldin abandoned a secure teaching position at Yale University to start his own academic unit at a fledgling institution, the Southwestern Medical School of the University of Texas in Dallas. Upon arrival, he discovered a tumbledown red brick building surrounded by leftover WWII plywood barracks that were so drafty that one winter the gross anatomy class had to be canceled until the cadavers thawed. Yale's Sterling Hall this was not. Seldin weathered setbacks and faculty losses, but new funding and a new dean meant UT Southwestern was turning a corner. As department chair, his skill as a recruiter, mentor, physician, and scientist transformed the hospital "into a national powerhouse in biomedicine," and Seldin would come to be considered "the most influential and respected academic physician of this era." Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Goldstein praised Seldin as "a true maestro in the way he taught clinical medicine. He was famous in medical circles, for his sharp intellect, his extensive knowledge of clinical medicine, his impressive diagnostic skills, his stimulating approach to teaching, and his unique ability to select and mentor young physician-scientists, many of whom became highly successful biomedical scientists." Seldin died on April 25, 2018, at the age of ninety-seven"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Welcome to Big D

Chapter 2 The Nickel Empire

Chapter 3 Perfect Chemistry

Chapter 4 War and Peace

Chapter 5 A New Sheriff in Town

Chapter 6 Talent Scout

Chapter 7 Here’s a Dime

Chapter 8 The Triple Threat

Chapter 9 Lab Partners

Chapter 10 The Road to Stockholm

Chapter 11 A University Worthy of the Department of Medicine

Chapter 12 A Society Man

Chapter 13 Go Forth and Prosper

Chapter 14 Moral Authority

Chapter 15 Life Partners

Chapter 16 Joie de Vivre

Chapter 17 The Final Class

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-2077-6

1-4773-2076-8

OCLC:

1266228086