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Tremendous strides have been made over the past decade in the department of surgery. Faculty members are engaged in scores of research investigations including anti-rejection drugs, laparoscopic surgical techniques, and artificial organ usage, with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes for patients who require surgical procedures. Recently, the department received a philanthropic boost when the Hales Family Foundation made a $2.5 million contribution to establish The Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professorship in Transplant Surgery. “The gift is intended to provide resources for thoracic transplant surgery and related research in order to continue to cure patients with diseased organs through transplant surgery,” explains Thomas Hales. The first Hales Distinguished Professor will be Bartley P. Griffith, MD, professor of surgery, chief of the division of cardiac surgery, and director of heart and lung transplantation. Griffith’s clinical work focuses on treating patients with the most severe forms of heart and lung disease while his research concentrates on heart and lung transplantation and the use of artificial organs. “This is a wonderful commitment by the Hales Family Foundation,” says Griffith. “Their contribution signifies their confidence in the research and clinical care being conducted here at Maryland and specifically within the department of surgery.” For fifteen years, M. Carlyle Crenshaw Jr., MD, served as chairman of the department of obstetrics & gynecology where he cared for patients, trained residents, and advanced research in high-risk maternity care. During his tenure, Crenshaw impacted the lives of countless patients, residents and colleagues. Now his legacy will inspire others for generations to come. Through a generous planned-gift commitment, Crenshaw’s wife, Lillian Blackmon Crenshaw, MD, has established the M. Carlyle Crenshaw Jr., MD Professorship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. The endowed professorship will allow the medical school to recruit future physicians with the same superior skills and unyielding zeal for medicine as its former chairman. “My husband had a wonderful career in medicine,” comments Blackmon Crenshaw. “This gift is my way of recognizing him and his many contributions to the profession he loved.” Blackmon Crenshaw, who served as clinical associate professor in the department of pediatrics, has also established an endowed fellowship program within her former department’s division of neonatology. “The Crenshaws treated many of the same high-risk mothers and their infants throughout their respective careers,” explains Hugh E. Mighty, ’82, professor and chairman of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. “These wonderful gift commitments ensure that high-risk mothers and their infants will receive the same outstanding standard of care that these two excellent physicians provided during their careers.” |
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