约翰·麦戈文基金会重命名麦戈文医学院

Single largest gift from John P. McGovern Foundation Renames UTHealth Medical School

The John P. McGovern Foundation has made a transformational $75 million gift to bolster medical training, provide full scholarships and support scientific discovery and innovation at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and its medical school, UTHealth President Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, M.D., announced Nov. 23, 2015.

UTHealth Medical School will be renamedJohn P.和Kathrine G. McGovern医学院in honor of the largest gift in the university’s history. For more information about how the name change will impact the school, please see the FAQs.

“Today we honor the tremendous legacy ofDr. John P. McGovern和他的妻子凯瑟琳（Kathrine），我们庆祝这种变革式的礼物将如何影响你们每个人的未来几年。McGovern名称是服务，知识和同情的代名词，这些价值观嵌入了我们大学的基础中。

已故的约翰·P·麦戈文（John P. McGovern），医学博士是儿科医生，过敏症患者，免疫学家和教育家，在其成长的年份帮助塑造了德克萨斯医学中心（TMC）。建立基金会近55年后，现在由妻子凯瑟琳·麦戈文（Kathrine McGovern）领导，麦戈文（McGovern）博士的愿景继续通过支持医学艺术和科学的许多礼物来改变TMC。

“博士麦戈文曾经说过：“我们的医生是一个特权 - 有幸服务，分享我们患者的人类戏剧，并为他们的健康和福祉做出贡献。要接受适当的教育以实践他或她的艺术，至关重要的是，对人文科学的熟悉，对科学的知识至关重要。”“这是一个合适的礼物，以纪念一个将成年人献给学习，教学，研究和执业医学的人。”beplay苹果手机能用吗

The outdoor plaza was a fitting setting for the announcement, where the school’s new name was unveiled. Positioned between what will now be informally called McGovern Medical School and TheTMC Library，广场的路径将学术活动联系起来，并导致麦戈文人文与伦理学中心以及图书馆的约翰·麦戈文（John P. McGovern）的历史收藏和研究中心。beplay苹果手机能用吗

The largest gift in the foundation’s history will, in part, be used to provide a series of scholarships to be awarded annually. The medical school’s first full scholarships will recognize McGovern Scholars’ superior scholastic achievements, high standards of personal conduct, and empathy and compassion for patients and their families. These scholarships will offset students’ burden of debt and also will allow UTHealth to attract qualified students who would not be able to attend medical school without financial support.

除奖学金外，礼物还将在Uthealth的麦戈文人文与道德中心该基金会于2004年由McGovern基金会的另一项慷慨捐赠成立。麦戈文接受了医学博士威廉·奥斯勒爵士的哲学，其方法包括以患者为中心的，同情心的护理和对病史和人文科学的欣赏。麦戈文（McGovern）于1969年共同创立了美国的奥斯勒协会（American Osler Society）。麦戈文中心（McGovern Center）的任务侧重于道德和人文科学，以解决今天医疗保健中的非人性化力量。该中心为大学的所有学校提供服务。外围beplay

德克萨斯大学系统校长威廉·H·麦克拉文（William H.“这将影响德克萨斯人及其他地区的未来健康。任何受过麦戈文学者或教授受过教育，指导或对待的人都将从已故麦戈文博士本人固有的同情和道德原则中受益。UT系统很荣幸John P. McGovern基金会董事会选择将Uthealth的医学院带有McGovern名称。凭借这一巨大的荣誉，我知道，Uthealth的领导力和教职员工再也不会更快乐或应该得到这个机会。”

该基金会的礼物还将建立合作研究捐赠基金会，该基金会将鼓励整个大学的跨学科发现，以及杰出的捐赠椅子和杰出的教师奖 - beplay苹果手机能用吗所有这些奖项旨在支持和激发研究和教学中的创新。

“Funds for endowed chairs and research programs will be transformational as we work to expand current academic programs and to build new programs,” said Barbara Stoll, M.D., dean of McGovern Medical School and the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences. “We have an obligation to use this wonderful gift wisely to recruit and retain the most outstanding faculty and to build programs to support fundamental scientific discoveries, research that translates these discoveries to the clinical arena, and community-based studies to enhance the health of Houston and beyond.”

With this gift, McGovern’s legacy of giving, as well as medical excellence and dedication to education and research, will have a long-lasting impact.

“这真正非凡的礼物送给我们的社区d to UTHealth represents a game-changing moment that will impact the way health care is taught and delivered for generations to come,” said Bob Graham, chair of the UTHealth Development Board. “McGovern Medical School will thoroughly prepare our graduates to address the changing health care needs of our nation, while our community of experts will tirelessly champion Dr. McGovern’s legacy through pioneering research and patient-centered clinical care, to achieve the pinnacle of medical innovation and solve the greatest health care challenges of our time.”

McGovern, a 1945 graduate of Duke University Medical School, taught at George Washington University Medical School and Tulane Medical School before deciding to move to Houston where a vibrant, young Texas Medical Center was taking shape.

1956年，他加入了德克萨斯大学研究生学院，现在是德克萨斯大学生物医学研究生学院休斯顿的生物医学学院，这是UTHealth与德克萨斯大学MD Anderson Cancer Center之间的合作伙伴关系。McGovern继续在Uthealth的其他五所学校中任命临床教师任命 - 唯一可以区分这种区别的教职员工。外围beplay

他购买了私人执业的ph值退休ysician and established the McGovern Allergy Clinic. In 1958, he hired a talented office manager, Kathrine Dunbar Galbreath, a native Houstonian who would become his wife three years later. The patient-centered Houston practice grew to become the largest privately owned allergy clinic in the world.

In 1961, the same year he and Kathrine wed, he started a foundation, the Texas Allergy Research Foundation, which was renamed the John P. McGovern Foundation in 1979. “What one earns, he spends; what he wins, he loses; and what he gives, he keeps forever,” McGovern was quoted as saying in John P. McGovern: A Lifetime of Stories by Bryant Boutwell, Dr.P.H., the John P. McGovern, M.D., Professor of Oslerian Medicine at McGovern Medical School.

During his career in medicine, McGovern held 17 professorships, received 29 honorary doctorates, authored 252 professional publications including 26 books – all while serving as president or chief elected officer of 15 professional societies of medicine. He died in 2007, leaving a legacy that his wife carries on today through her work heading the John P. McGovern Foundation.

“One of my patients recently told the medical school’s graduating class of 2015, ‘The biggest gift you can give your patients is yourself and your time,’” Colasurdo said. “Each student at McGovern Medical School will learn these values, ensuring that, every four years, more than 1,000 alumni will enter the health care workforce practicing the Oslerian values that formed the heart of Dr. McGovern’s philosophy.”