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New Museum to Showcase Maestro of MedicineMichael E. DeBakey Library & Museumby Kristi Krupala
Throughout his prolific career, DeBakey has been a virtual whirlwind of innovation. An ingenious medical inventor, dedicated educator, premier surgeon, and international medical statesman, he has led a hero's life, and has often been referred to as a "medical maestro," and rightfully so. Dacron© arteries, arterial bypass operations, artificial hearts, heart pumps and heart transplants are all commonplace today because of him. DeBakey also is credited with developing the concept for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H.) units, that saved thousands of lives during the Korean and Vietnam wars. DeBakey joined the BCM faculty in 1948, where he served as chairman of the department of surgery until 1993. He became the college's first president when Baylor College of Medicine separated by mutual consent from Baylor University in 1969. In 1979, he was named as chancellor, and then as chancellor emeritus in 1996. The Michael E. DeBakey Library & Museum will be located on the ground floor of the DeBakey Center for Biomedical Education and Research on the main BCM campus, and will be open to the public. The new facility will feature the many facets of DeBakey's visionary talent—focusing on the three key aspects of his career as educator, surgeon, and medical statesman—with photographs, videos, interactive displays, awards, and memorabilia (including the sewing machine). Building—quite literally—on DeBakey's legacy, plans call for three additional floors to be added atop the museum for educational facilities. The DeBakey Center expansion will provide a home for six academic societies to help guide students through the difficult process of obtaining a medical degree. Mentored by senior faculty members, each society will have meeting rooms, study space with computer workstations, office space for the mentors, lounge areas, and student lockers and mailboxes. Academic societies are a fairly new concept in the medical school arena, but they have been an active part of renowned universities for some time. The program was created to provide students with academic, professional and personal support during their rigorous medical school schedule. At BCM, academic societies will give students a more intimate circle of peers in all stages of training, a physical space and sophisticated resources for collaborative work, and faculty advisors to take a personal interest in their development as physicians. The hope is that these young men and women will make a greater commitment to the college and to the communities they serve. For more information about the DeBakey Library and Museum, please call Christi Parker, Director of Development, at 713-798-3422. |
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It all started with his wife's sewing machine. The story of how famed heart pioneer Dr. Michael DeBakey sewed the first Dacron© grafts on his wife's treadle machine is well known. With plans for the construction of a museum and library to showcase DeBakey's legendary achievements, there will at last be a place that stands as a lasting tribute to the man Time Magazine anointed in May 1968 as the "Texas Tornado."