Release Date: Nov. 6, 2002
Dr. John L. Dornhoffer became the
first Samuel D. McGill, junior, Endowed Chair in Otolaryngology
Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
Friday, Nov. 1.
Dornhoffer is an associate professor in the Department of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the UAMS College of
Medicine. He has developed procedures and techniques for hearing
reconstruction that are world-renowned. He also has done extensive
research on Meniere's disease, a condition that causes hearing
loss and profound dizziness.
A native of Camden, Ark., Mr.
McGill made a large bequest to the Department of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in gratitude to Dr. James Y.
Suen for the care his mother, Helen Watts McGill, received at UAMS.
Dr. Suen is chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and
Neck Surgery and director of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center
at UAMS.
The UAMS College of Medicine
conducted an investiture, an academic ceremony for new holders of
endowed positions, for Dr. Dornhoffer Nov. 1. President B. Alan
Sugg, Ph.D., of the University of Arkansas System; UAMS Chancellor
I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.; and Dean E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D.,
M.B.A., presided. Dr. Suen and Dr. Jan Helms of Wurzburg, Germany,
made special remarks.
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Contact:
Leslie W. Taylor
501-686-8998
Wireless phone: 501-951-7260
leslie@uams.edu
Elizabeth F. Shores
501-686-8394
ShoresElizabethF@uams.edu
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