By Valerie Tucker
The J. David Gladstone Institutes honored Haile T. Debas, MD, and Lloyd H. "Holly" Smith, MD, for their instrumental roles developing the UCSF-affiliated research institutes.
More than 100 friends of Gladstone and Debas and Smith, including UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop, MD, UCSF School of Medicine Dean David Kessler and Gladstone trustees Albert Dorman, Richard Jones and Andrew Garb joined the celebration on September 6.
Julius Krevans, MD, UCSF chancellor emeritus, introduced Stephen Hauser, MD, chair of the UCSF Department of Neurology, who presented the award to Debas. Debas served as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and later as chancellor during a period of significant growth for Gladstone.
"Haile's wise counsel and support were vitally important in defining and fostering the interactions between very different organizations, with many common purposes," said Gladstone President Robert Mahley, MD, PhD. "He helped establish the joint UCSF-Gladstone AIDS Research Center, which has become one of the world's premier centers of its kind for basic and clinical research, clinical medicine, and community education."
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Stephen Hauser, MD, left, talks with honorees Lloyd "Holly" Smith, MD, center, and Haile Debas, MD, at the Gladstone Institutes' annual trustees awards dinner. |
James Wyngaarden, MD, former director of the National Institutes of Health, presented the award to Smith, who was part of the search committee that recruited Mahley as the founding director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and later recruited Warner Greene, MD, PhD, to establish the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology.
"Were it not for Holly," said Mahley, "we never would have been able to put together a program with UCSF that capitalized on our expertise in basic research and UCSF's outstanding capabilities in clinical research and patient care."
The J. David Gladstone Institutes is a private, nonprofit biomedical research institution. It is affiliated with UCSF, a leading university that consistently defines health care worldwide by conducting advanced biomedical research, educating graduate students in the life sciences, and providing complex patient care.
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