Special Honors Class Notes page

 

Dear Alumni, It was great seeing so many of you at the reunion reception last September. It was a pleasure to honor Drs. Zach Hall, Charles Hollis, and Lee Walker and to hear from Dean Lawley about his vision for the future. Highlights of Emory Alumni Weekend, September 25-27, included Health Sciences Night at the Braves game, early morning rounds at Druid Hills Golf Club, Jake Ward's tour of the Quad, bagpiper Henry Frantz' procession to the barbecue picnic, an all-alumni band party as well as our annual Saturday evening reunion reception. Be there next year September 24-26, 1999. I look forward to seeing you. Maggie Mermin, 77M President, Medical Alumni Association

Much-loved Evangeline Papageorge, former dean of students, with Zach Hall, 60M, who received the Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement.

Special Honors Zach W. Hall, 60M, received the Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement at the Saturday evening alumni reception at the Grand Hyatt last September. This award is presented by the Medical Alumni Association to an individual who has achieved distinction in research, teaching, medical practice, or administration in an academic or public institution. Dr. Hall is vice-chancellor for research at the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Previously, he had been director of NIH's Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a position he held until 1997. Dr. Hall is both a scientist and an educator. After receiving his undergraduate degree in English from Yale in 1958, he studied medicine at Emory for two years. He then moved to Harvard, where he earned a PhD in biochemistry and medical sciences in 1966. He was a fellow in biochemistry at Stanford until 1968, when he joined the Harvard faculty in neurobiology. In 1976, Dr. Hall moved back to the West Coast to UCSF, where as professor of physiology he headed a new program in the neurosciences. Dr. Hall is author and editor of the textbook An Introduction to Molecular Neurobiology. He has published more than 100 papers and reviews in scientific journals. He also is a founding editor of Neuron, a journal of cellular and molecular neurobiology. Dr. Hall is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was the 1994 Alexander Forbes Lecturer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. He has twice won the Jacob Javits Investigator in Neuroscience award. Additional professional activities include membership on the Scientific Advisory Committee for Neurobiology of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and participation in the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1997, Dr. Hall was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Charles Hollis, 48M, (right) received the Medical Alumni Association's Award of Honor. W. Daniel Barker (left) is former director of hospitals at Emory.

Charles D. Hollis Jr., 48M, of Albany, Ga., was selected to received the Award of Honor at the medical alumni reunion reception. Dr. Hollis is founder, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of MAG Mutual Insurance Company, Georgia's physician-owned, professional liability insurance company. Under his guidance, MAG Mutual has become a multimillion dollar company that insures 5,600 physicians, the largest insurer of physicians in the state. A native of Forsyth, Ga., Dr. Hollis stayed at Emory after graduating from medical school to complete an internship in the department of medicine during 1949-1950. He then did a residency at the University of Minnesota, working at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis. After additional training at the National Heart Institute, he returned to Emory to complete a fellowship in cardiology. Additionally, he served in the active duty medical corps of the US Army from 1951 to 1953. Dr. Hollis has practiced internal medicine and cardiology in Albany, Ga., since 1954. He is past president of the Medical Association of Georgia and the Georgia Society of Internal Medicine. He also is past president of staff at both Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany and HCA Palmyra Medical Centers. In addition, Dr. Hollis has served as a delegate to the American Medical Association from Georgia and as past chair of the 13-state Southeastern Coalition of the AMA. He is past chairman of the Governor's Advisory Council on Medical Malpractice and has chaired the Allied Health Professions Committee of the American Society of Internal Medicine. Dr. Hollis has served as a member of the board of directors of the Albany Chamber of Commerce, Blue Shield of Columbus, and the Georgia Federal Bank in Atlanta. He presently is on the board of trustees of the national organization of physician owned companies, PIAA. Dr. Hollis retired from Albany Internal Medicine in 1996. He and his wife, Carolyn, have three children and five grandchildren. Also during alumni weekend, Jesse Lee Walker, 38C, 41M, received an Emory Medal. See his story in class notes.

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