![]() | Board of Visitors minutes February 25, 2000 | ![]() |
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EDWARD WATSON HOOK DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP IN INTERNAL MEDICINE
WHEREAS, Dr. Edward Watson Hook, a native of South Carolina, joined the University of Virginia in 1969 as Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Hook developed his Department into one of the most distinguished departments of internal medicine in the country; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Hook is remembered as a superb physician, teacher and scholar, and for his many contributions to the life of the University of Virginia; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Hook died in 1998; and
WHEREAS, friends, colleagues, patients, former students and the family of Dr. Hook have given generously to establish a professorship in his memory;
RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors establishes the Edward Watson Hook Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine and in so doing honors the life and achievements of Dr. Hook.
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