The H. Marvin Pollard Professorship in Internal Medicine
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| Stephen Gruber and Interim Dean James Woolliscroft Photo: Scott Galvin |
On December 20, 2006, at a ceremony in the Koessler Library in the Michigan League, Stephen B. Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., became the first H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Internal Medicine.
An associate professor of internal medicine, human genetics and epidemiology, Gruber is director of the U-M Cancer Genetics Clinic, which specializes in caring for individuals and families with inherited susceptibility to cancer. He joined the faculty in 1997 as an assistant professor of epidemiology and internal medicine.
H. Marvin Pollard (M.D. 1931, Residency 1933) was a gastroenterologist at the University of Michigan for nearly four decades. At the time of his death in 1982 at the age of 75, Medical School Dean John A. Gronvall, M.D., characterized Pollard as “a senior statesman of medicine.”
In 1956, a U-M research team headed by Pollard invented the fiberoptic gastroscope. The device of flexible glass-coated fibers they designed, built and tested at the University Hospital became the prototype for the instruments now frequently used in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders.
The Pollard Professorship was made possible by a gift from the Shirley M. McLaughlin Trust and is the second endowed professorship named for Pollard.
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