Giving Opportunities for Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Friends
FUTURE OF FAMILY MEDICINE ENDOWMENT
The
FUTURE OF FAMILY MEDICINE ENDOWMENT
has been created to transform and renew the discipline of family medicine to meet
the needs of patients in a changing health care environment. Funding from this endowment
will be used to promote clinical, education, and research projects consistent with
those identified in the national report The Future of Family Medicine: A Collaborative
Project of the Family Medicine Community.
The FFM fundraising campaign was launched in spring 2006. Our family of donors includes
nearly 100 faculty, alumni, and friends who have pledged more than $100,000 to date.
We want to establish a professorship with this endowment and you can help us achieve
this goal by sending a donation. Today’s gifts will build a better tomorrow for
patients, providers, and health care across the nation.
JACK COLWILL, MD |
JACK M. AND WINIFRED S. COLWILL ENDOWED CHAIR
Jack M. Colwill, MD, was appointed chair of MU Family and Community Medicine in
1976, and today, thanks in large part to his vision, dedicated leadership, and commitment
to educational innovation, we are recognized as one of the premier family medicine
departments in the country.
The Jack M. Colwill Academic Endowment was created in May 2000 to promote excellence
in education. We named it to honor Dr. Colwill, who led our department for 21 years.
The campaign to build the Colwill Endowment has gone well. In fact, by 2005,
donations to the fund totaled more than $1.1 million, enough to establish the first
endowed chair for MU Family and Community Medicine.
Faculty, alumni, preceptors, and other special friends of our department continue
to donate to the Jack Colwill Endowment. Gifts to this endowment promote the continued
excellence and innovation in family medicine education at MU.
Harold A. Williamson, MD, MSPH, serves as
the Jack and Winifred Colwill Endowed Chair.
WILLIAM ALLEN, MD |
WILLIAM ALLEN PROFESSORSHIP IN FAMILY MEDICINE
William Allen, MD, joined our faculty in 1965 and enthusiastically served the department
and the institution for nearly 25 years. His leadership, hard work, and dedication
during this time significantly strengthened our efforts to expand and improve primary
care in Missouri. For years, he directed the rural preceptorship, which provides
medical students opportunities to learn and work with family physicians in small
towns across the state.
Dr. Allen initiated fundraising activities for our department after his retirement
during the late ‘80s. Twice a year, he wrote letters to preceptors and MU School
of Medicine graduates. Dr. Allen used the letters to update his friends with news
about the University and to solicit donations for the department.
By 1998, the endowment reached professorship level
and was named the William C. Allen Professorship. Robin Blake, MD, served as the
first Allen Professor until he retired in 2000.
Even though Dr. Allen passed away on December 28, 2005, the Allen Professorship
continues to grow, thanks to the ongoing generosity of Dr. Allen’s former friends
and colleagues. This endowment is providing permanent support for family medicine training throughout the School of Medicine.
PAUL REVARE, MD |
PAUL REVARE, MD PROFESSORSHIP OF FAMILY MEDICINE
Paul Revare, MD, graduated from our medical school in 1952, before it became a four-year
school. He then went to St. Louis University to finish his training. He settled
in North Kansas City to practice family medicine, and during the 1970s, he was among
the first 10 physicians in the Kansas City area to become a charter Diplomate of
the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. Revare later served as director of the
emergency department of Spelman Hospital in Smithville and worked there until his
retirement.
Dr. Revare became friends of Dr. William C. Allen through his membership in the
Missouri Academy of Family Physicians and other medical associations. Dr. Allen,
who recently died, was a long-time faculty member of our department and father of
our rural preceptorship program for medical students. With gifts totaling more than
$25,000, Dr. Revare is the second largest donor to the William C. Allen Professorship.
Dr. Revare’s wise investments throughout his career enabled him to retire at the
young age of 55. He and his wife, Janet, currently live in Kansas City. In 2006,
he made a $550,000 gift through his estate to create the Paul Revare, MD, Family
Professorship of Family Medicine.
Steven Zweig, MD, MSPH, interim chair and MU’s
Interdisciplinary Center on Aging director, has been named the first Paul Revare
Professor.
OPAL LEWIS DISTINGUISHED FACULTY SCHOLAR
Opal Lewis (1901-1996) was born in Matfield Green, KS, and married Donloe E. Lewis
in 1921. Opal and Don had one son, Donloe B. Lewis, whose family was struck by tragedy.
His oldest daughter died of leukemia at age 4. Four years later, his wife and two
remaining daughters were killed in a car accident. In the years after this accident,
Don B. developed an alcohol addiction. He committed suicide in 1966.
Ms. Lewis died at age 95 while living in a nursing home in Winfield, KS. Her estate
left funds to MU School of Medicine for research in alcohol abuse. Opal wanted to
help others who suffered from physical conditions similar to those experienced by
her family.
Daniel Vinson, MD, MSPH, has been named the Opal
Lewis Distinguished Faculty Scholar.
DONORS: Please complete and enclose the following form with your gift
MU FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE DONATION
FORM
About the Artist
Paul C. Jackson, AWS, NWS
American Watercolorist
Born in Lawrence, KS, and raised in Starkville, MS, Jackson began painting
in college at Mississippi State University. In 1992 he received a Master’s in Fine
Art from the University of Missouri. Since then his artwork has received top honors
in national and international competition, graced the covers of dozens of magazines
and books and inspired thousands of people.
Paul was honored by the American Watercolor Society with signature membership at
the age of 30, and at 32, Jackson was featured as one of the Master Painters of
the World in International Artists Magazine.
For more information, please visit:
The Watercolors of Paul Jackson, AWS, NWS