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Pool to Receive Academic Clinical Professionalism Award
Dr. James Pool Dr. James Pool, professor of medicine and pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2010 Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism—the College's highest clinical accolade. "Dr. Pool is truly deserving of this award," said Dr. William T. Butler, interim president at BCM. "He is the consummate physician." Pool will receive the award at the next White Coat Ceremony for the 2010 class of medical students. Pool, who holds the James L. Pool Chair in Clinical Pharmacology, received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma and did his internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at Duke University. He then went to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute before joining the faculty at BCM in 1977. His colleagues describe him as the epitome of the term "good doctor," combining clinical skills with teaching aplomb. "He showed us how to approach a convoluted patient interview and systematically divide it into a comprehensive problem list from which one could develop a treatment plan," said Dr. Holly H. Birdsall, professor of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at BCM and a former student. In recommending that Pool receive the award, she wrote: "How often in life do you have the opportunity to recommend an award for the one teacher who had the greatest impact on your medical education?" Dr. Garrett Lynch, professor of medicine – hematologyoncology at BCM and a previous recipient of the award, shares a number of patients with Pool. "He does not let a single symptom, finding or laboratory abnormality pass him by. He turns over every stone on his patients' illnesses. He shows great compassion and concern for the whole patient, as well as the families…. As a teacher, Dr. Pool is an amazing bedside educator," Lynch wrote. He added that even though Pool has a busy practice of private patients, "he always took two months each year to attend on the general medicine services at Ben Taub and the (Michael E. DeBakey) Veterans Affairs Medical Center, giving the patients at these institutions the same dedicated and compassionate care that he gave his private patients." |
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