Shreveport Med School Dean Will Be Dr. Grulee

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Thursday, December 7, 1972
THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS,
Shreveport Med School Dean Will Be Dr. Grulee
LSU Selects Cincinnati
Pediatrician for Post
Dr. Clifford G. Grulee of Cin-cinnati
will become the next
dean of the Louisiana State Uni-versity
School of Medicine in
Shreveport.
Appointment of Dr. Grulee
was announced Wednesday by
Dr. William H. Stewart, chan-cellor
of the LSU Medical Cen-ter,
following approval of the
University System Board of Su-pervisors.
Selection of Dr. Grulee ended
a 15-month national effort by a
special seven-member faculty
search committee to fill the
dean's position.
He will join the faculty of
the School of Medicine as
dean-designated on March 1,
1973, and will assume the
deanship July 1, following re-tirement
of Dr. Edgar Hull,
who has s e r v e d as the
school's dean, since its found-ing
and in the faculty of the
LSU Medical Center for more
than 40 years.
Dr. Grulee is currently dean
l of the University of Cincinnati
^College of Medicine.
Chancellor Stewart pointed
out that in serving as dean-des-ignate
for a period of three
months, ''Dr. Grulee will have
the advantage of being able to
'familiarize himself thoroughly,
with the assistance of Dr. Hull,
prior to Dr. Hull's retirement."
TIES TO LOUISIANA
A pediatrician with nearly two
decades of administrative expe-dience,
Dr. Grulee also claims
strong professional and personal
ties to Louisiana.
The LSU School of Medicine
in Shreveport, one of the six
professional schools of the LSU
Medical Center, was opened in
September, 1969. It now has 149
students in its four classes and
is due to graduate its first class
of 31 physicians at commence-ment
ceremonies set for May.
26, 1973.
A native of Chicago, Dr.
Grulee served in the faculty
of the Tulane Medical School
in New Orleans for 11 years,
rising to the rank of associate
dean, a post which he vacated
to become dean at Cincinnati
in 1963. His wife is a native of
Shreveport.
He will join the faculty of the
LSU School of Medicine in
jShrevepart as a tenured fullj
^professor of pediatrics; and as'
DR. CLIFFORD G. GRULEE DR. EDGAR HULL
dean, ',vill be responsible to the
chancellor of the LSU Medical
Center for all activities of the
LSU School of Medicine in
Shreveport.
UNANIMOUS CHOICE
Chancellor Stewart, in his rec-ommendation
to the b o a r d ,
termed Dr. Grulee "the unani-mous
choice of the faculty
search committee of the School j
of Medicine, after having given
consideration to nearly 150 po-tential
deanship candidates.
"This recommendation also
bears the approval of the gen-eral
faculty of the school, as
well as the student body, and
the medical community of the
Shreveport area," Chancellor
Stewart emphasized.
"A distinguished physician,
scholar and administrator, Dr.
Grulee possesses the experi-e
n c e , academic background,
enthusiasm, vigor and ability to
continue the development of the
School of Medicine in its next
phase of growth, encompassing
the next five years. I am there-fore
delighted to give him my
unqualified recommendation,"
Dr. Stewart concluded.
SHREVEPORT SITE
Now housed at several tempo-rary
locations in Shreveport, the
School of Medicine is due to oc-cupy
its new and permanent
home by late 1975, which is now
under construction adjacent to
the Confederate Memorial Medi-cal
Center. It is a $25 million
high-rise structure, which Is j
now approximately 20 per cent
complete.
Retirement of Dr. Hull from
University Service will end a
career in academic medicine
dating from September, 1931,
at which time he joined the
LSU Medical Center faculty
as an instructor of medicine
in the School of Medicine in
New Orleans, the original pro-fessional
school of the Medical
Center, which admitted its
first medical students Oct. 1,
1931, Chancellor Stewart said.
"During the 41-year period,
Dr. Hull rose through the aca-demic
ranks to assistant, asso-!
date and full professorship, and
has additionally served as act-ing
dean, as well as associate
dean and head of the Depart-ment
of Medicine of the School
of Medicine in New Orleans, the
position he occupied at the time
he became dean of the School of
Medicine in Shreveport.
"An authority in the field of
cardiology, Dr. Hull's career
spans <ne entire academic histo-ry
of the LSU .Medical Center,
and he has been involved in the
teaching of all of ihe 3,618 phy-sicians
throughout the w o r l d
who have earned the LSU doc-tor
of medicine degree," Chan-cellor
Stewart concluded.