Dr. John Dornhoffer Is First McGill Chair at UAMS
| Nov. 6, 2002 | Dr. John L. Dornhoffer became the first Samuel D. McGill, junior, Endowed Chair in Otolaryngology Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Friday, Nov. 1.
Dornhoffer is an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the UAMS College of Medicine. He has developed procedures and techniques for hearing reconstruction that are world-renowned. He also has done extensive research on Meniere’s disease, a condition that causes hearing loss and profound dizziness.
A native of Camden, Ark., Mr. McGill made a large bequest to the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in gratitude to Dr. James Y. Suen for the care his mother, Helen Watts McGill, received at UAMS. Dr. Suen is chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and director of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center at UAMS.
The UAMS College of Medicine conducted an investiture, an academic ceremony for new holders of endowed positions, for Dr. Dornhoffer Nov. 1. President B. Alan Sugg, Ph.D., of the University of Arkansas System; UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.; and Dean E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., presided. Dr. Suen and Dr. Jan Helms of Wurzburg, Germany, made special remarks.