Pediatrics chair George Brumley honored with Jefferson
Award
George W. Brumley, Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics and
pediatrics department chair since 1981, received the Thomas Jefferson
Award,
Emory's highest honor for service to the University through personal
activities, influence and leadership. According to 1994 Thomas Jefferson
Award
recipient Jonas Shulman, associate dean and professor in the medical
school,
Brumley has more than quadrupled the size of the pediatrics faculty in
the last
14 years, from 45 to 200, "attracting close to one-quarter of this year's
M.D.
graduates into pediatric residencies and making the Emory training
program in
pediatrics one of the most sought after programs in the country," Shulman
said.
"Dr. Brumley has played a crucial role in making scientific medicine as
important to the mission of the health sciences at Emory as the
traditionally
excellent clinical activities have been. His department receives
outstanding
research funding and is ranked in the top quarter of all pediatrics
departments
nationally in funding from the National Institutes of Health...Without
question, the quality of academic pediatrics at Emory, the strength and
stability of the Emory University School of Medicine, and the well-being
of
children in this community and in the nation have been enhanced by the
contributions of this gentle man."