The Nashville Health Care Council, McWhorter Society and Nashville, Tenn.-based Belmont University created the award and chose the winners from a pool of 40 nominees.
“With individuals from all across Tennessee who have made a significant impact on their communities through their work as leaders, politicians, practitioners, scientists, philanthropists and innovators, the Hall of Fame is honored to induct such a deserving group of healthcare heroes,” said Hayley Hovious, president of the Nashville Health Care Council.
Here are this year’s winners, as described in a press release from the Nashville Health Care Council.
Monroe Carell Jr.: Former CEO of Nashville-based Central Parking Corporation; prominent philanthropist who led efforts to fund the Monroe Carell, Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn.
Carol Etherington, MSN, RN: Initiated victim intervention for the Davidson County Police Department; established coalitions that led to the founding of the Nashville Prevention Partnership and volunteer mental health pools for the Red Cross; current chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health and associate professor of nursing emerita at Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health.
John Henry Hale, MD, and Millie Hale: Brave and innovative practitioners who paved the way for justice and equality; opened their home to become the Millie E. Hale Hospital when African Americans couldn’t be treated at ‘white’ institutions; created a holistic community center; Dr. Hale was professor of clinical medicine and surgery at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.; Millie Hale created a training center for nurses across the South.
Lynn Massingale, MD: Known as a major influencer on emergency medicine, nationwide; founded TeamHealth and served as CEO from 1979 to 2009 and now serves as chairman; was named a Hero of Emergency Medicine by the American College of Emergency Physicians and received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award; previous EMS Medical Director of Tennessee.
William Schaffner, MD: Professor of preventive medicine, department of health policy and professor of medicine, division of infectious diseases, at Vanderbilt (Tenn.) University School of Medicine; nation’s pioneer of rigorous infection control in hospitals; his Nashville standard became the standard of excellence nationwide; national leader on adult immunizations; served as president of the National Foundation for Infectious Disease and is now medical director; longest serving member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Matthew Walker, Sr., MD: Founded the Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center, Inc.; was one of the first African Americans voted into the Nashville Academy of Medicine; credited for training half of the African Americans in the U.S. at the time of his death; served as a professor at Meharry Medical College for four decades; first African American fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
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