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<\/FONT><\/B><\/P><\/p>\n

The American College of Physicians has awarded mastership status to
\nRobert L. Grissom, M.D., the first full-time chairman of the University
\nof Nebraska Medical Center’s internal medicine department and one of four
\noriginal full-time clinical faculty members at the Medical Center. <\/P><\/p>\n

With more than 100,000 members, the ACP is the nation’s largest society
\nof physicians trained in internal medicine and its related subspecialties.
\nDr. Grissom is only the second physician in Nebraska to achieve master
\nstatus in the ACP. Fred Paustian, M.D., professor in UNMC’s internal medicine
\ndepartment, is the only other physician in the state to gain master status
\nin the ACP. He was awarded mastership in 1993. <\/P><\/p>\n

Mastership is ACP’s highest level of membership. ACP fellows are nominated
\nfor mastership by an awards committee and elected by the ACP’s Board of
\nRegents. With the addition of 38 ACP masters this year, the number of ACP
\nmasters now stands at 324. According to ACP bylaws, master selection is
\nbased on personal character, positions of honor or influence, contributions
\ntoward furthering the purposes of the ACP, and\/or eminence in practice
\nor medical research. <\/P><\/p>\n

Dr. Grissom was previously named an ACP fellow in 1954. Dr. Grissom
\nbecame a full-time faculty member in 1953, coming to UNMC from the University
\nof Illinois, where he worked for seven years. Prior to this, UNMC had no
\nfull-time clinical faculty, but instead used solely volunteer or part-time
\nfaculty members from throughout the community. Dr. Grissom was chairman
\nof the internal medicine department from 1956 to 1970. Following this,
\nhe worked in the cardiology division from 1970 to 1987, serving as acting
\nhead of the division from 1970 to 1972. He retired in 1987 and was named
\nprofessor emeritus at that time, a position he continues to hold. <\/P><\/p>\n

Today, Dr. Grissom, 80, continues to serve on the Admissions Committee
\nfor the College of Medicine and also is a facilitator for a problem-based
\nlearning group. In 1982, the internal medicine department named a conference
\nroom on the fifth floor of University Hospital in honor of Dr. Grissom.
\nMichael Sorrell, M.D., the Grissom Professor of Medicine and a former chairman
\nof UNMC’s internal medicine department, was instrumental in getting the
\nconference room named after Dr. Grissom and speaks in glowing terms of
\nwhat Dr. Grissom has meant to the Medical Center.<\/P><\/p>\n

"Dr. Grissom was a pioneer. He was the person who was responsible
\nfor building a modern internal medicine program at UNMC. Prior to Dr. Grissom
\ncoming here, we were on probation with the accreditation agency. We were
\nan academic sink hole," Dr. Sorrell said. "Dr. Grissom is a great
\nman of medicine in Nebraska. He’s one of the finest men I’ve ever met.
\nI consider him my role model. He is a man of impeccable principles in the
\npractice of medicine and the education of medical students. He lived those
\nprinciples and taught us all the moral values of life." <\/P><\/p>\n

In addition to Dr. Grissom being awarded mastership status in the ACP,
\nseveral other UNMC internists were honored at the ACP’s recent national
\nconvocation in Philadelphia. Rowen Zetterman, M.D., professor, internal
\nmedicine, just completed a one-year term as chairman of the ACP Board of
\nGovernors and is now serving as a member of the Board of Regents, the ACP’s
\nultimate governing body. <\/P><\/p>\n

Prior to his term on the Board of Governors, Dr. Zetterman served as
\nACP governor for Nebraska. Two UNMC physicians — Wendy Adams, M.D., M.P.H.,
\nassistant professor, geriatrics, and Philip Bierman, M.D., associate professor,
\noncology\/hematology — were inducted as fellows in the ACP, while Arthur
\nWeaver, M.D., clinical professor in rheumatology, received the ACP Chapter
\nLaureate Award for Nebraska. John Hoesing, M.D., clinical associate professor
\nin internal medicine, is ACP governor for Nebraska and led Nebraska’s delegation
\nat the convocation. <\/P><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American College of Physicians has awarded mastership status to Robert L. Grissom, M.D., the first full-time chairman of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s internal medicine department and one of four original full-time clinical faculty members at the Medical Center. 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