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Hugh E. Stephenson Jr., MD
During his 50 years on MU’s medical faculty he served as professor and chair of surgery and chief of general surgery. He also spent 12 years as the first elected chief of staff at University Hospital and served as interim dean of the medical school. Stephenson “retired” in 1992 but continues his close association with the University and the School of Medicine. In 1996 he was named to the Board of Curators and served as its president. In 2003, the MU Alumni Association presented him with a Henry S. Geyer Award for his many contributions to the School of Medicine and University during the past 50 years. MU’s department of surgery also was named in honor of Dr. Stephenson in 2003. |
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A 1943 graduate of the MU School
of Medicine, Dr. Stephenson was
heavily involved in the lobbying effort
to establish a four-year medical school
at the University. As a surgeon he
developed the first course in cardiac
resuscitation, designed and developed
one of the first mobile cardiac resuscitation
units and performed the first
open-heart surgery at University
Hospital in 1958. 