Remembering Carmel Bitondo Dyer, MD, renowned geriatrician and champion for older adults
Carmel Bitondo Dyer, MD, an internationally renowned geriatrician and executive director of the Consortium on Aging at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), died Tuesday, May 4. She was 62. With passion, vision, and an innovative…
In memoriam: Vanessa Floyd
Vanessa Floyd, 51, died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, following a battle with esophageal cancer. Vanessa served as director of management operations for the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for more than 5 years, overseeing all financial and administrative operations…
In memoriam: Cheves Smythe, MD
Cheves McCord Smythe, MD, founding dean of McGovern Medical School, died May 11, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina, at the age of 95. Born May 25, 1924, in Charleston, Smythe graduated from Harvard Medical School. During the Korean War, he…
In memoriam: Stanley J. Dudrick, MD
The founding chair of the McGovern Medical School Department of Surgery, Stanley J. Dudrick, MD, 84, died Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, in New Hampshire. Dudrick joined the faculty at what was then The University of Texas Medical School at Houston…
In Memoriam: William Woodward, MD
William Woodward, MD, 80, a former faculty member of the Medical School and School of Public Health, died Nov. 16, 2019, of leukemia at his Oxford, Md. home. Woodward was an epidemiologist and infectious disease expert who was recruited to…
In Memoriam: Robert J. Amato, DO
Dr. Robert J. Amato, professor in the Division of Oncology, died Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Dr. Amato was born Nov. 19, 1956. He obtained his medical degree from the University of North Texas, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine after graduating…