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Posted 11-22-99
Case Western Reserve University was well-represented at the third annual Medical Hall of Fame induction dinner on September 22. The dinner was organized by Cleveland magazine and the Center for Health Affairs (formerly the Greater Cleveland Hospital Association), and was sponsored by CWRU's School of Medicine, Picker International, and Steris Corp. Proceeds from the event went to the medical school to support medical education.
Inductees from CWRU included Theodore J. Castele, a member of the CWRU Board of Trustees and a graduate of Adelbert College and the medical school; Hymer Friedell, professor emeritus of radiology and former director of radiology at the medical school and University Hospitals of Cleveland; Oliver C. Schroeder Jr., the Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice; and the late Douglas D. Bond, former dean of the medical school. Also recognized was Henry A. Zimmerman, who started the first heart laboratory in the Midwest at the CWRU-affiliated hospital, City Hospital (now MetroHealth Medical Center).
Castele was honored for his many years of service to the public, including 24 years as the medical editor on WEWS-TV5, as well as for his extensive fundraising efforts on behalf of several civic and medically related causes. One of Castele's current roles at his alma mater is the chairmanship of the Campaign for the Future of Academic Medicine.
At the ceremony, Castele challenged the audience (composed of about 300 physicians and other professionals associated with Cleveland health care institutions) to create one academic medical center in Cleveland based around CWRU's School of Medicine. He said that if the institutions in Cleveland worked together around the medical school, the city could create the best medical center in the world.
The Hall of Fame committee cited Friedell for his research into the effects of radiation on biological systems, which led to better protection from radiation exposure for both military and civilian populations around the world.
Bond was honored for his role in launching the medical school's famous 1952 curriculum, as well as for his contributions as dean and professor and chief of the medical school's Department of Psychiatry.
Schroeder was recognized for establishing the pioneering CWRU Law-Medicine Center.
Zimmerman was honored for discovering surgical methods that enabled catheterization of the left side of the heart, not previously possible because of dangerous blood-pressure conditions in the arteries of the heart, while leading the heart lab at City Hospital.
Also inducted into the Medical Hall of Fame were Bernadine Healy, president of the American Red Cross, former director of the National Institutes of Health, and former dean of the Ohio State University Medical College; the late Samuel R. Gerber, former coroner of Cuyahoga County from 1936-86; and the late David Long (1787-1851), who became Cleveland's first resident physician in 1810.
Recognized with the first Picker Prize for technological innovation was Gliatech Inc., a Cleveland biotechnology company that was founded in 1988 to investigate the commercial potential for nerve cell research that originated at CWRU.
Honored as nurse of the year was the late Sharon Lane, a nurse who grew up in Stark County and became the only American servicewoman to die as a direct result of enemy fire in the Vietnam War.
In his opening remarks for the ceremony, Nathan A. Berger, dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs, said of the inductees, "It is their legacy upon which we build for the future, and their achievements challenge us to make Cleveland health care, research and education even greater for the next millennium."
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