In Memoriam

Medical School

Morris T. "Ted" Bronstad Jr., M.D. (’48)

Damon C. Bernwanger, M.D. (’50)

Bill C. Morgan, M.D. (’56)

G. Weldon Tillery, M.D. (’59

Daniel E. Scott, M.D. (’61)

Charles T. Richardson, M.D. (’66)

Housestaff

Charles Dale Coln, M.D. (Surgery)

Medical School

Class of 1962: Thomas Williams, M.D., has joined Cactus Health Services in Fort Stockton as a pediatrician to its health care team. Dr. Williams and Peggy, his wife of 57 years, are from Canyon Lake. A board-certified pediatrician, Dr. Williams’ medical career spans more than 50 years and reflects a life-long commitment to caring for people of all ages and ethnicities.

His career includes service in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps during the Vietnam War, a faculty position in pediatrics and clinical pathology at what is now UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and positions at the Wellcome Laboratories, the research arm of Burroughs Wellcome Company, and at the University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill. While at UT Health San Antonio, he established and directed the first pediatric bone marrow transplantation service in the Southwest.

From 1994 to 2009, Dr. Williams served internationally as Executive Director of the Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation to provide medical care to children and adults in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean basin (Haiti and Jamaica).Since his return to the U.S., Dr. Williams has worked as a primary care physician throughout Texas, treating both adults and children in a variety of care settings. He also continues to devote himself to the Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation.

Class of 1994: James F. Lilly, M.D., has been named as the new Medical Director of First Choice Emergency Room’s North Dallas Tollway facility, 4535 Frankford Rd., in Dallas. First Choice Emergency Room facilities are the largest network of independent freestanding emergency rooms in the U.S.  The facilities are staffed exclusively with board-certified physicians and emergency trained registered nurses. Dr. Lilly earned his medical degree after receiving his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University. Previously, Dr. Lilly served as a staff physician at the Medical Center of Lewisville and at the Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He is board certified in emergency medicine and has 15 years practicing emergency medicine.

Class of 2002: Andrew D. Boyd, M.D., has been awarded the “Research of the Year Award, Clinical Sciences, Rising Star” by the University of Illinois at Chicago.

House Staff

Michelle Hebert, M.D., of Huntsville, has received the George T. Caldwell, M.D. Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Society of Pathologists. Dr. Hebert was honored on Jan. 16 at the society’s 95th annual meeting, held in Dallas. Established in 1954, the award recognizes distinguished service and teaching excellence among pathologists. The award is the society’s most prestigious award and represents the highest ideals in service to medicine, community, and humanity as exemplified by the late pathologist, Dr. George T. Caldwell (1882 – 1947).

Dr. Herbert received her medical degree from UT Health Sciences Center in San Antonio in June 1990. After finishing her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center, she completed fellowships in surgical pathology, under the director of Dr. Jorge Albores-Saavedra, and hematopathology, under the direction of Dr. Robert McKenna, also at UT Southwestern. She is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and hematopathology.

Graduate School

Class of 2004: Kathryn N. Ivey, Ph.D., has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of San Francisco-based Aelan Cell Technologies. Dr. Ivey is the Director of the Gladstone Stem Cell Core at the Gladstone Institutes and manages BioFulcrum, an enterprise within the Gladstone Institutes aimed at accelerating the timeline for finding cures to currently untreatable diseases by partnering with scientists, non-profits, and industries. Dr. Ivey has spent the past 15 years studying cardiac cell fate and behavior. She has conducted research using both animal and cellular models to interrogate molecular networks that control processes during heart development and whose disruption can cause cardiac disease. Currently, her research involves using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to model cardiac and skeletal muscle development and disease to attempt to reveal cellular and molecular processes that go wrong, leading to various pathological diseases.

A graduate of Texas A&M University, Dr. Ivey earned her doctorate in molecular and cell biology at UT Southwestern, where she focused her studies on the transcriptional regulation of the developing heart. Dr. Ivey then joined Gladstone as a postdoctoral scholar and studied stem cell biology as a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scholar.

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