1st appeared 21 September 1999
Schecter Wins Rapaport Award
William Schecter, chief of the department of surgery at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center (SFGHMC), was honored as the first recipient of the "Elliot Rapaport Award for Commitment to San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center" at the recent SFGHMC annual medical staff meeting.
The
award is named for the physician who served as associate dean for the
UCSF School of Medicine at SFGHMC from 1985-97 and who has been active
in the San Francisco medical community for more than 40 years.
Rapaport is a UCSF professor of medicine and continues to serve today at SFGHMC as an attending cardiologist. He is widely recognized for his leadership in strengthening the SFGHMC/UCSF partnership and for his dedication to patient care, teaching, and research. The award, to be presented annually, honors a physician at SFGHMC who demonstrates a similar commitment in one or more of these areas.
As the 1999 recipient, Schecter was cited in particular for his genuine compassion for patients. He was the unanimous choice of the selection committee. Schecter joined the UCSF faculty in 1980 and has served as chief of the SFGHMC surgery department since 1992.
In 1993 he co-founded a Bay Area program called Operation Access that provides free outpatient surgical services to patients who cannot afford the cost of care. More than 100 surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists at area hospitals volunteer their services for the program.
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