Mayo Clinic Trustees Honor New Named Professors

Friday, February 20, 2009

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees welcomed four new members, elected officers and recognized two awardees of Mayo Clinic named professorships.

Brad Anderson, the vice chairman and chief executive officer of Best Buy, Inc., a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services, joined the board as a public trustee. A. Dano Davis, Louis Gonda and Marilyn Carlson Nelson were re-elected to four-year terms as public trustees.

R. Scott Gorman, M.D. and William Rupp, M.D. were named internal trustees for four-year terms. Dawn Milliner, M.D. and Jeffrey Korsmo were elected to one-year terms as internal trustees.

Senator Thomas A. Daschle, George B. Bartley, M.D. and Franklyn Prendergast, M.D. were recognized for completion of their service as trustees. Mr. C. Dale Rustad was honored for his 40 years of continuous staff support to the Board of Trustees.

Mayo Clinic's 2009 Officers include President and Chief Executive Officer Denis Cortese, M.D. and five vice presidents: Chief Administrative Officer Shirley Weis; Glenn Forbes, M.D.; William Rupp, M.D.; Nina Schwenk, M.D. and Victor Trastek, M.D.

The Trustees also honored two Mayo Clinic named professors.

Mark Warner, M.D., a consultant in the Department of Anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, is the recipient of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professorship in Anesthesiology Honoring Daniel R. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. This is the fourth Annenberg professorship established at Mayo Clinic, and it honors Dr. Brown, the associate director of the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Service and the chair of the Division of Intensive Care and Respiratory Therapy in the Department of Anesthesiology. Mr. Annenberg was a distinguished editor, publisher and broadcast pioneer. Mrs. Annenberg, former chief of protocol for the United States, serves as the chair and president of the Annenberg Foundation.

Dr. Warner currently serves as Dean of Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education and in many other leadership roles, both nationally and at Mayo. He is the current president of the American Board of Anesthesiology and the president-elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He serves on the executive committees of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, and the Academy of Anesthesiology. He is an editor of the Journal of Anesthesiology. Within Mayo, Dr. Warner is former Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology. He currently is a member of the Mayo Clinic Rochester Executive Board and chairs its Administrative Committee.

Dr. Warner's clinical interests focus on pediatric anesthesia and health care administration. His research concentrates on epidemiology and quality assessment of anesthetic care and perioperative outcomes measurement.

Svetomir Markovic, M.D., Ph.D., who holds the academic rank of professor of medicine and associate professor of oncology, was recognized with distinction as the Charles F. Mathy Professor in Melanoma Research, which was established by Leah Mathy and her family to honor their husband and father. The late Charles Mathy, a leading La Crosse, Wis., area businessman and owner of Mathy Construction Company, was a contributing force in the 1995 partnering of Franciscan Health System, Skemp Clinic and Mayo Clinic, serving on the advisory board.

Dr. Markovic is a member of many professional societies and serves as reviewer for several medical journals. He actively participates in educational activities, such as curriculum/course development, teaching and mentoring. He has given national and international presentations and has authored numerous articles, abstracts and letters. Dr. Markovic is widely recognized for his clinical contributions, extensive research publications and leadership in the field of internal medicine and oncology.

Dr. Markovic's main clinical practice interests are focused on the use of emerging immunotherapeutics for the treatment of malignant diseases. His research interests include translational research utilizing laboratory developments in basic immunology and applying them to hematology/oncology clinical research and practice. In addition, he conducts laboratory research on the immune system as a therapeutic tool in the treatment of metastatic melanoma and lymphoma.

Named professorships at Mayo Clinic represent the highest academic distinction for a faculty member. Faculty are appointed to a professorship through nomination and endorsement of their peers and then confirmed by Mayo Clinic senior leadership. Appointed individuals are recognized for distinguished achievement in their specialty areas and service to the institution.

These professorships are named in honor of the benefactors. The gift funds, which may be unrestricted or focused on a specific medical area, are held in endowment. All income from the endowed professorships supports Mayo Clinic programs in medical education and research.

The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees, a 31-member group of public representatives and Mayo physicians and administrators, is responsible for patient care, medical education and research activities at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.; Rochester, Minn.; and Scottsdale and Phoenix, Ariz.

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