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December 4, 2000

Distinguished Professors

By Michael Terrazas mterraz@emory.edu

 

Anita Bernstein
Sam Nunn Professor of Law

Bernstein joined the School of Law faculty full time this year after spending last year as a visiting professor. She previously taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1989–2000. She received her bachelor’s from Queens College in 1981 and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985. Bernstein clerked in the office of Chief Judge Jack Weinstein, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, from 1985–86 and also served as an associate in the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York from 1986–89, specializing in products liability corporate acquisition.

John Bostwick
William G. Hamm, M.D.,
Chair of Plastic Surgery

Bostwick is chief of plastic surgery for Emory Hospital and chief of outpatient surgery for Emory Clinic. He is a 1963 graduate of Emory College and received his M.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis in 1966. He did his residency training in general surgery at Emory under J.D. Martin (1966–68) and Dean Warren (1970–73), and in plastic surgery under M.J. Jurkiewicz (1973–75). Bostwick is a member of more than 40 professional associations worldwide.

Lucas Carpenter
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English

Carpenter has been a professor of English at Oxford College since 1995, and he is Oxford’s first Candler Professor. He received his bachelor’s from the College of Charleston (S.C.) in 1968, his master’s from the University of North Carolina in 1973 and his doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982. Carpenter specializes in the work of John Gould Fletcher (he edited The John Gould Fletcher Series from the University of Arkansas Press) and Vietnam War-era American literature. In 1999, Carpenter received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.

Sandra Dunbar
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Nursing

Dunbar, who is interim director of the School of Nursing’s doctoral program, teaches courses in nursing theory, research and health outcomes. Her clinical area of expertise is adult health with an emphasis on cardiovascular nursing. Dunbar received her bachelor’s from the University of Florida in 1972, her master’s in nursing from Florida State University in 1973 and doctorate from the University of Alabama-Birmingham in 1980. Dunbar received the Katherine Lembright Award from the American Heart Association in 1999.

Ira Horowitz
Willaford Ransom Leach
Professor in Gynecology and Obstetrics

Horowitz is associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics in the School of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory Hospital and Emory Clinic. He received his bachelor’s from the University of Rochester (N.Y.) in 1976 and his M.D. from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1980. Horowitz did postgraduate training at Baylor and at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Andrew Kull
Robert Thompson
Professor of Law

Kull is a professor of law whose teaching interests include contracts, negotiable instruments, sales and restitution. He received his bachelor’s from the University of California-Berkeley in 1969, a bachelor’s and a master’s from Oxford University in 1973, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1977. Before coming to Emory in 1987, Kull practiced in New York and Paris with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He is the author of The Color-Blind Constitution (Harvard Press, 1992), which won the 1993 Silver Gavel award from the American Bar Association.

Michael Lindsay
Luella Klein Professor in Maternal Fetal Medicine

Lindsay is an associate professor in the School of Medicine, with joint appointments in perinatal and maternal and infant care at Grady Hospital. He received his bachelor’s from Morehouse College in 1975, his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1979 and a master’s of public health from Emory in 1991. Lindsay did postgraduate training at St. Louis University Hospitals (1979–80), Boston City Hospital (1980–83) and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (1983–85).

Kenneth Minneman
Charles Howard Candler
Professor of Pharmacology

Minneman has been a professor of pharmacology in the School of Medicine since 1990. He is former director of graduate programs in molecular therapeutics and toxicology, and in physiological and pharmacological sciences. Minneman received his bachelor’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1977. He was recently named a councilor for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

Ana Alvarez Murphy
Anne Winship Bates Leach
Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Murphy has been a professor of gynecology and obstetrics in the School of Medicine since 1993. She is also the department’s director of reproductive endocrinology. She received her bachelor’s from Cornell University in 1976 and her M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1980. Murphy did postgraduate training at Johns Hopkins, where she was previously an instructor in gynecology, obstetrics, gynecologic endocrinology and infertility.

Byron Williams
Linton and June Bishop Chair of Medicine

Williams is an associate professor of medicine and chief of cardiology at Crawford Long. He received his bachelor’s from The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., in 1970 and his M.D. from the University of Florida in 1974. Williams did postgraduate training at Charlotte (N.C.) Memorial Hospital (1974–77) and Emory Hospital. He has won many honors and awards and is a member of several professional organizations. His research focuses on noninvasive cardiology and coronary artery disease.

Ray Watts
A. Worley Brown Chair in Neurology

Watts has been a professor of neurology in the School of Medicine since 1998, and he is also chief of neurology at Emory Hospital and Wesley Woods. He received his bachelor’s from the University of Alabama-Birmingham in 1976 and his M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1980. Watts did his postgraduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Among his many research grants was a two-year NIH grant to study pathophysiology of MPTP Parkinsonians that funded $264,000 in direct costs.

 

 

 

 

 

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