Davis / Deck / Delahoussaye / Garza / Gilmer / Goforth / Grossman
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Joyce S. Davis, MD (1989)
Background
Dr. Joyce Stripling Davis was born in Big Spring, Texas (Howard County) on February 18, 1924, to Leslie Dayton Stripling, a drilling contractor, and Alta Estelle Hull, a school teacher. She was the oldest of four children, Bettye King, Margaret Oliver, and Celia Young.
Dr. Davis met her future husband, Phil Davis, a Baylor College of Medicine in Waco. They were married in 1946 and had four children, Roger, Diane, Mark, and Scott.
Dr. Davis died on May 9, 2014 in Austin, Texas.
Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Davis graduated valedictorian of her high school class in Crystal City, Texas. She went to Baylor University in Waco for her undergraduate work and received her BS degree graduating in the Centennial Class of Baylor University.
Dr. Davis graduated with her MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She met her husband, Phil, while in medical school and they married before graduation. After graduating in 1947, they moved to St. Louis, Missouri where Dr. Davis interned in pathology at Washington University.
In 1949, Dr. Davis spent five-and-a-half months in pediatrics residency at Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and then worked part-time in the Harris County Health Department until her daughter was born in 1950. Dr. Davis and Phil went into general practice in Denton, Texas for a short time in 1950, later taking their practice to Mt. Vernon.
Phil was called into the army and stationed in Korea. Dr. Davis could not sustain their private practice, so she served a part-time residency in pathology at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. After completing her residency, she became board-certified in anatomic pathology in 1958 and clinical pathology in 1960.
Dr. Davis became an instructor in pathology at Baylor College of Medicine in 1956, was promoted to assistant professor in 1960, and then promoted to associate professor in 1965. She was the coordinator of student instruction in pathology and supervised and taught pathology residents at Ben Taub General Hospital from 1961 to 1975. She was an associate attending pathologist at Ben Taub General Hospital, an associate in pathology at Methodist Hospital, and a consultant to the Veterans' Administration Hospital.
In 1975, she became the first professor and head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Texas A&M University's new College of Medicine. She was instrumental in organizing the pathology department and served as the head of the department until her retirement in 1990. During this time Dr. Davis served on the courtesy staff of six hospitals, medical groups, and medical centers as a consultant in pathology or director of laboratories.
Among Dr. Davis's many appointments, she served as director of the yearly postgraduate course in Urologic Curriculum Committees; she was on the ad hoc committee to study the feasibility of the Baylor-Texas A&M University Affiliated Medical Programs; she was chairman of the subcommittee of the Promotions Committee on Examinations in Basic Sciences and chairman of the Pathology Department Teaching Committee.
She was a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathology, the U.S.-Canadian Academy of Pathology, the Texas Society of Electron Microscopy, the Texas Society of Histotechnology, and the Texas Society of Cytology. Dr. Davis has been recognized both as a teacher and for her contributions to pathology. In 1984, she received the distinguished alumnus honor at Baylor University. She was named Consortium Scholar for her work from 1972 to 1973 on the Self-Instructional Materials Project of the Southern Medical Schools Consortium. In 1973, she received an Outstanding Teacher Award from Baylor College of Medicine, and in 1983 she received the Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching by the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University.
Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Davis joined the TSP in 1977. She served as a delegate from District 12 and was on the Scientific Programs and the Medical Technology Committees. She was vice president of the TSP in 1987 and president in 1989.
Dr. Davis received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award in 1997 for her contributions to the field of pathology.
Notable Publication(s)
Dr. Davis has authored or co-authored twenty-five professional manuscripts, nine professional abstracts and presentations, five self-instrumental packages, and nine invited papers and workshops.
Duffy, J., Lidsky, M.D., Sharp, J.T., Davis, J.S., Person, D.A., Hollinger, F.B., & Min, K. W. (1976). Polyarthritis, polyarteritis and hepatitis B. Medicine, 55(1), 19-37.
Kahil, M.E., Fred, H.L., Brown, H., & Davis, J.S. (1964). Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: Report of two cases. Archives of internal medicine, 113(1), 63.
Graber, C.D., Higgins, L.S., & Davis, J.S. (1965). Seldom-encountered agents of bacterial meningitis. JAMA, 192(11), 956-960.
Prichard, R.W., Davis, J.S., & Matsen, J.M. (1992). Teaching pathology to medical students in the 1990s: a 1989 symposium of the Association of Pathology Chairmen. Human pathology, 23(2), 98-103.
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Michael A. Deck, MD (2011)
Background
Dr. Michael A. Deck was born on July 11, 1957, in St. Louis, Missouri to Arthur and Mary Deck. Arthur Deck worked with a chemical company and was transferred to Houston, Texas when Dr. Deck was five years old. They settled in the Clearlake area, and Dr. Deck graduated from Clearlake High School.
Dr. Deck has one adult son, Michael.
Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Deck graduated with a BS degree, summa cum laude, in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1979. He was the recipient of the College of Engineering Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award and the H. Royce LeRoy Award for Outstanding Student in Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering.
During the summers he interned at Exxon and Diamond Shamrock. While at Exxon, Dr. Deck wrote the database system software that was used to analyze their data. Even though Dr. Deck ended up going into medicine, he maintained his interest in computers throughout his career. He wrote the software that his company, MD Pathology, currently uses.
Dr. Deck received his MD degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1983. He served as vice president of Alpha Omega Alpha and received the Vernie A. Stembridge Award for outstanding graduating student in pathology. Coincidentally before Dr. Deck knew he was going to go into pathology, TSP's past president, Dr. Max Buja, was one of the physicians who interviewed him upon entering medical school.
Dr. Deck first became interested in pathology after doing a summer internship in autopsy pathology rotations. He did his residency at UT Southwestern/Parkland Memorial Hospital when Vernie Stembridge was the program director. Dr. Deck served as chief resident from 1986 to 1987 and served as a clinical instructor of pathology at UT Southwestern. He was board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology in 1987.
After completing his residency, Dr. Deck joined Dallas Pathology Associates, which served several hospitals and medical centers in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area. After a couple of years, he started his practice, MD Pathology, when Texas Health Presbyterian, then Children's Presbyterian Hospital, opened its Plano branch. Dr. Deck was able to contract with this new hospital and in 1992 started MD Pathology. His laboratory has since grown from one person to seven members, and Dr. Deck currently serves as the medical director for five hospital laboratories.
Dr. Deck is a member of the College of American Pathologists where he served on the State Affairs and Economic Affairs Committees, the Texas Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Pathology, and the Dallas County Medical Society.
Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Deck was first introduced to the TSP through Vernie Stembridge, who encouraged residents to join. He received the President's Award in 2009 and served as president of the TSP in 2011. During his time as president and while on the Board, several policy issues were discussed including the licensure of medical technologists and direct billing legislation. Dr. Deck also worked with the TSP on balance billing and network adequacy with managed care groups. During his time as president, efforts were underway to build funds for the Education Foundation for young pathologists. Additionally, Dr. Deck is an accomplished photographer and has served as the photographer at the TSP Annual Meeting for several years.
Notable Publication(s)
Deck M. Clinical Laboratory Aspects of Vitamins B12 and Folate. American Society of Clinical Pathologists Check Sample Series in Hematology 1988; 30(5): 1-7.
Deck M, Davis L, Silva F, Verani R, and Cohen A. Histogenesis of Renal Cysts in End-Stage Renal Disease (Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease): An Immunohistochemical and Lectin Study. Surgical Pathology 1988; 1(4): 391-406.
Barber FA, and Deck, MA. The in-vivo Histology of an Absorbable Suture Anchor: A Preliminary Report. Arthroscopy 1995, 11(1):77-81.
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Peggy M. Delahoussaye, MD (2012)
Background
Dr. Peggy Melissa Butler Delahoussaye was born September 5, 1951, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her father was a lawyer specializing in oil and gas law. He was transferred from Houston before Dr. Delahoussaye was born, but her family moved back to Houston in 1960.
After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin with a BA, manga cum laude, in anthropology in 1973, Dr. Delahoussaye married Darrell, who is an electrical engineer. When her sister died of breast cancer in 1993, she and Darrell adopted her sister's children, then ages nine and eleven.
Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Delahoussaye went back to UT Austin and obtained an MS in zoology and completed her requirements for medical school. She then moved to Houston to attend medical school at The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School in Houston where she received her MD degree in 1983. She won several awards and honors while in medical school including the Walter G. Sterling Faculty Award for Outstanding Student, the American Medical Women's Association Scholarship Achievement Citation, and Outstanding Student in Psychiatry. She also served as president of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society from 1982 to 1983.
She did a residency in psychiatry with UTHSC in 1983. She then did a residency in clinical and anatomic pathology, also at UTHSC, which she completed in 1989. She then did a year-long fellowship in surgical pathology with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
After her residency and fellowship, Dr. Delahoussaye went into private practice in Houston. She continues to work with the same pathology group, which was originally Hill and Associations, but is now Mangini, Lakhia, Delahoussaye and Associates. During her tenure, they have grown from a three-person to a nine-person pathology group. Dr. Delahoussaye is vice president and a member of the Board of Directors.
Dr. Delahoussaye has served several hospitals, among them Pearland Medical Center, Houston Orthopedic and Spine Hospital, and the Houston Town and Country Hospital. She has also served as the medical director for numerous laboratories over the course of her career. She was chief of the Department of Pathology at Sam Houston Memorial Hospital in 1993. At Spring Branch Medical Center she served as chairman of the Department of Pathology from 2004 to 2006 as well as chairman of the Continuing Medical Education Committee from 200 to 2002 and the Infection Control and Pharmacy/Therapeutics Committee from 1994 to 1996 and 1998 to 2000. From 1987 to 1989, Dr. Delahoussaye served as an instructor of pathology at the University of Houston School of Optometry.
Dr. Delahoussaye has served in several leadership roles for the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists. She was secretary in 1997 and in 199, sponsorship chairman in 1998, and served as its president in 2001.
Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Delahoussaye has served the TSP as delegate, director-at-large, secretary, vice-president, and president-elect. She served as president of the TSP in 2012. Before becoming director-at-large, she chaired an ad hoc committee that was charged with the task of revenue enhancement. This committee developed an approach that has since led to increased annual revenues from the TSP annual meeting. During her time as president, the TSP initiated a liaison program with various residency and fellowship programs in Texas to promote interest and involvement in the TSP by young pathologists. Also during her presidency plans for an Education Fund were started, and the program now provides educational awards to residents and fellows.
Notable Publication(s)
Delahoussaye, P.M., & Osborne, B.M. (1990). Cat-scratch disease presenting as abdominal visceral granulomas. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 161(1), 71-78.
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Marcelo Garza, MD (1977)
Background
Dr. Marcelo "Marc" Garza was born in Brownsville, Texas in 1924 to Marcelo and Virginia Garza. He had two brothers and three sisters and graduated from Brownsville High School. He met his wife, Bettie Celaya while at The University of Texas in Austin. They were married in 1955.
Dr. Garzs died on December 30, 1993, in Dallas, Texas.
Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Garza served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II as a flight engineer from 1942 until 1945. After his time in the Air Force, he returned to school and obtained his MD degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1955. He did an internship in Colorado and returned to UTMB to complete his pathology residency. He became board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology in 1960.
He began practicing pathology at Dow Hospital in Freeport. Then, in 1961, he joined Dr. A.B. Cairns in Dallas. They formed the Cairns-Nateborn-Garza Clinical Laboratory, which served the Methodist Hospital. Dr. Garza continued to work with the Methodist Hospital until his retirement in 1980.
Dr. Garza was a member of the Dallas County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the College of American Pathologists, Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity, and the Ex-Student Association of The University of Texas, for which he served as president of the Dallas chapter. He was also a charter member of the Dallas Academy of Pathology which was formed in 1967.
Dr. Garza served as a mentor and provided scholarships to several underprivileged minority students.
Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Garza served as president of the TSP in 1977 during a time when pathology was spreading throughout Texas. Texas A&M College of Medicine enrolled its first class in September, 1977, and the medical examiner system was being adopted in several counties in Texas.
Notable Publication(s)
Brownville Herald Obituaries: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/local/article_17202af4-946a-5a38-a3de-1d0262dde93f.html
Baker, Marilyn Miller (1996) The History of Pathology in Texas. Texas Medical History E-Books. Book 11. http://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/ebooks/11
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Peachy R. Gilmer, Jr., MD (1987)
Background
Peachy Ridgeway "Ridg" Gilmer, Jr. was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on July 26, 1932. His father, P.R. Gilmer, Sr., was a chest surgeon and pulmonary specialist who practiced in Shreveport. His mother, Julia Morrow Church Gilmer, was from McKinney, Texas.
Dr. Gilmer married Irma Marie Kenney in 1955 in New Orleans. They had five children, Willaim Somerville in 1956, Leo Kenney in 1958, Elizabeth Jaubert in 1962, Dorothy Marie in 1967, and Julia Church in 1968. Kenney died on January 4, 1965. Irma Gilmer died in August 1998.
Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Gilmer graduated high school in 1950 from Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, Tennessee. He attended Centenary College in Shreveport from 1950 to 1952 and completed his undergraduate studies at Tulane University in New Orleans in 1953. He received his MD degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1957.
In 1957, Dr. Gilmer did a rotating internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and in 1958 was a resident in general surgery at Charity Hosptial on the Tulane service. From 1959 to 1961, Dr. Gilmer was a fellow in pathologic anatomy at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He then spent a year as a resident in clinical pathology at Charity Hospital on the Louisiana State University service, after which he was certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic and clinical pathology.
From 1964 to 1971, Dr. Gilmer had a private pathology practice in Shreveport. During this time, he served as a consultant to Panola General Hospital in Carthage, Texas, and to the Willis-Knighton Memorial Hospital and the Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport. He was a clinical assistant professor of pathology at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport from 1964 to 1971.
in 1971, Dr. Gilmer moved to Galveston to become an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Medical Branch. He eventually became a full professor in 1981. He served on several committees including the Curriculum Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, and the Promotion and Tenure Committee. He was active in the teaching and resident programs for pathology.
After spending a year in Washington, D.C. as a project director for the Association of American Medical Colleges, Dr. Gilmer returned to Houston to The University of Texas Houston Health Science Center and served as chief of pathology at the LBJ General Hospital until his retirement in 1995.
Dr. Gilmer worked extensively with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and served as the state commissioner of Texas from 1980 until 1984. He was editor of Summing Up, a publication of the Survey Committee of the CAP. Since 1990, Dr. Gilmer has edited Laboratory Accreditation News, a quarterly newsletter of the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation appearing in CAP Today.
Dr. Gilmer has been a member of the American Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association, the Galveston County Medical Society, the Houston Society to Clinical Pathologists, the National Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, the American Society of Medical Technologists, and the Texas Society of Medical Technologists. He was elected to membership in the American Society of Hematology in 1978. He chaired the TMA Council on Annual Sessions until 2001. He has most recently served as an alternate delegate to the TMA for the Harris County Medical Society and the Houston Academy of Medicine.
Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Gilmer was elected as a TSP alternate delegate to the House of Delegates of the College of American Pathologists from 1976 to 1983 and delegate from 1983 until 1985. He served on the Quality Control Committee from 1975 to 1977 and on the Medical Technology Committee in 1979. He was appointed chairman of the Medical Technology Council in 1984, chairman of the Credentials Committee in 1984, and to the American Society of Clinical Pathology Council in 1984.
Dr. Gilmer served as president of the TSP in 1987. He received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award in 1985 for his contributions to pathology.
Notable Publication(s)
Aside from his editorial tasks, Dr. Gilmer has also authored twenty papers dealing ith hematology and is the author or co-author of thirteen pamphlets and books.
Bessman, J.D., Gilmer Jr, P.R., & Gardner, F.H. (1983). Improved classification of anemias by MCV and RDW. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 80(3), 322-326.
Bessman, J.D., Williams, L.J., & Gilmer Jr, P.R. (1982). Platelet size in health and hematologic disease. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 78(2), 150-153.
Bessman, J.D, Williams, L.J. & Gilmer Jr, P.R. (1981). Mean platelet volume. The inverse relation of platelet size and count in normal subjects, and an artifact of other particles. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 76(3), 289-293.
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John L. Goforth, MD (1931, 1943)
Background
Dr. John Lawrence Goforth was born on June 24, 1897, in Beeville, Texas. He did his early education in Comfort and San Antonio, Texas, attending the Marshall School for Boys. He married Patsy Louise and they had one daughter, Diane.
Dr. Goforth died on September 5, 1985, in Dallas, Texas.
Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Goforth received his AB degree with honors, in 1918 from The University of Texas in Austin. During World War I, he was trained at Yale Army Laboratory Training School and served for eleven months as a bacteriologist with the American Expeditionary Forces in France and Germany.
After serving in the military, he went back to medical school and earned his MD degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1923. He did his internship at Johns Hopkins and completed his pathology residencies at Philadelphia General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1926, Dr. Goforth returned to Texas and became the first full-time pathologist at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas. He established St. Paul's Medical Technology School and served as president of St. Paul's medical staff in 1954. In 1957, he served as chairman of the professional division of the fundraising committee for the new St. Paul Hospital. Dr. Goforth served as director of St. Paul Hospital, later St. Paul Medical Center, for thirty-five years and was a consultant from 1961 to 1976.
Aside from his work with St. Paul, Dr. Goforth had his own private laboratory, J.L. Goforth Laboratories, which served Dallas and East Texas. He also served as the pathologist at the Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Methodist Medical Center, and Medical Arts Hospital. Additionally, he served on the Dallas Health Advisory Board for seventeen years.
Dr. Goforth was active in organized medicine on both the local and international level. He received the Joint Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Pathology and the College of American Pathologists in 1971. He served as chairman of the board of Certified Laboratory Assistants and was a driving force in the development of the national program. He was also a charter member of the Dallas Academy of Pathology that formed in 1967.
Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Goforth is one of the charter members of the TSP who helped re-organize the group and write the by-laws at the May 16, 1934 meeting. He served as president of the TSP in 1931 and 1943. He was also the first member of the TSP to serve as president of the American Society of Clinical Pathology. During his time with the TSP, Dr. Goforth helped standardize university pathology programs and laboratories.
He received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award for his excellence in pathology in 1957.
In 1986, Patsy was instrumental in establishing the John Lawrence and Patsy Louise Goforth Professorship in Pathology, an endowment fund at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in honor of Dr. Goforth's work in pathology.
Notable Publication(s)
Goforth, J.L. (1952). Squamous cell papilloma of the cervix uteri. Southern medical journal, 45(10), 921-926.
Goforth, J.L. (1927). Carcinoma developing in the parotid (Stensen's) duct: with clinicopathologic report of a case. The American Journal of Medical Sciences, 173(5), 624-628.
Goforth, J.L. (1926). Unique heart anomaly: free fibrous cord passing through three heart chambers in the aorta. Journal of the American Medical Association, 86(21), 1612-1613.
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Mervin H. Grossman, MD (1964)
Background
Dr. Grossman was born in Cuero, Texas in 1918. He married Isla, and they had two daughters, Lynn and Joan.
Dr. Grossman died on October 27, 1988, while attending the CAP/ASCP meeting in Las Vegas. He was living in Dallas, Texas.
Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Grossman received his AB degree from Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina in 1938. He received his MD degree from the University of Tenessee College of Medicine in Memphis in 1941 and did his internship at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He did his residencies at Jefferson Davis Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Grossman had served in the U.S. Army during World War II, which was in the midst of his residency work. After his service, he returned to Texas to complete a pathology residency at Baylor College of Medicine, serving under Drs. Coulter, Wallace, and Halpert. He was certified by the American Board of Pathology in 1951. At Baylor, he served as an instructor in pathology until 1950 and as an assistant professor in 1951. He moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee to become director of laboratories at Memorial Hospital, but in 1953, he moved back to Dallas to practice.
Dr. Grossman was a member of the Southern Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Pathology, and the College of American Pathologists.
Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Grossman joined the TSP in 1954. He was an active member, serving as secretary in 1957 and president in 1964.
In 1949, during the TSP meeting that year, Dr. Grossman helped form the Section of Pathology of the Harris County Medical Society (later called the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists).
Notable Publication(s)
Grossman, M.H., Lochte, W.P., & Coulter Sr, W.W. (1948). Prognostic significance of the vaginal smear after irradiation of uterine carcinoma. Texas state journal of medicine, 44(8), 594-596.
Smith, L., & Grossman, M. (1951). Necropsy authorization in Texas. Texas state journal of medicine, 47(3), 158-161.
Grossman, M.H. (1953). Sudden and unexpected natural death. Texas state journal of medicine, 49(1), 32-35.
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