Dr. Benjamin J. Alper
Jack N. Wells, Ph.D.
Dr. William O. Whetsell Jr.
Dr. Stephen C. Woodward
Four Vanderbilt University School of Medicine faculty members were honored with emeritus professorships last week during the commencement ceremony. They are:
Dr. Benjamin J. Alper, clinical professor of Medicine, Emeritus. Alper directed Vanderbilt’s Arthritis Clinic for 20 years and was responsible for training a number of distinguished rheumatologists.
Jack N. Wells, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology, Emeritus. Wells has been actively involved in the training of graduate students, supervising nine Ph.D. students during his career at Vanderbilt, 20 graduate students in total during his career.
Dr. William O. Whetsell Jr., professor of Pathology, Emeritus. Whetsell established the first accredited training program in neuropathology at Vanderbilt as well as the current neuropathology curriculum for the medical student course in pathology.
Dr. Stephen C. Woodward, Emeritus professor of Pathology. While chief of pathology at the VA, Woodward’s most important educational effort was to establish Medical and Surgical Death Conferences where more than 1,200 cases, virtually all autopsied cases, were presented.