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Dr. Grossman's energy, dedication,
integrity, wisdom and intelligence have served to shape CURE
to this day. His most important scientific contributions lay
in defining the secretory mechanisms of the stomach and pancreas
and the actions of regulatory gastrointestinal peptides. Beyond
his own original contributions he synthesized much of the available
knowledge in gastrointestinal physiology and endocrinology and
set uncompromising standards for scientific validity and accuracy
of reporting. As important, he trained fellows from all parts
of the world and from diverse backgrounds. As such, he was singularly
responsible for putting CURE on the map internationally, a position
that CURE continues to hold two decades later.
Funding for the Grossman Lecture
has come from the private contributions of alumni and friends around
the world. The twelfth lecture was given in 2000 at Digestive Disease
Week in San Diego. The lecture has received the sanction of the
American Gastroenterological Association and hereon in the lecture
will be held on the Saturday evening preceding Digestive Disease
Week wherever that meeting is held. Lecturers have included two
Nobel Laureates.
The
next lecture will be on Saturday, May 19, 2001 at 6:00 pm in Atlanta,
Georgia and will be given by Dr. Salvador Moncada, director of The
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London,
London, England.
Grossman Lecture Advisory Committee
Meeting, May, 1998, New Orleans. Seated from left to right, Gordon
Kauffman, Yvette Taché, Eugene Jacobson, Travis Solomon.
Standing from left to right, Haile Debas, John Walsh, Jon Isenberg
and Rusty Johnson.
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