Health Care Hall of Fame
Last month, the eight inaugural inductees into the Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame were announced. The Hall of Fame was created by Belmont University and the McWhorter Society and is supported by the Nashville Health Care Council, a Hall of Fame Founding Partner.
The eight inductees for 2015 are:
Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Jr.: physician, co-founder, past chairman and CEO of HCA, co-founder of China Healthcare Corp. and member of National Healthcare Hall of Fame;
Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.: cardiologist, founder of Park View Hospital, co-founder of HCA;
Dr. Ernest William Goodpasture: pathologist and physician, past dean of Vanderbilt School of Medicine;
Jack C. Massey: co-founder of HCA, founder and past board member of Baptist Hospital;
Clayton McWhorter: pharmacist and co-founder of HealthTrust and Clayton Associates, past president and CEO of HCA;
Dr. David Satcher: 16th U.S. Surgeon General, past director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and past president of Meharry Medical College and Morehouse School of Medicine;
Dr. Mildred T. Stahlman: pediatrician and pathologist, founder of the country’s first modern neonatology intensive care unit who pioneered the use of respiratory therapy on infants with damaged lungs, past president of the American Pediatric Society;
Danny Thomas: founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.