Ho Din and the Nobel Laureate
In 1966, a young medical school graduate of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center named Joseph L. Goldstein received the Ho Din Award from Southwestern Medical Foundation. The Ho Din Award, the foremost honor bestowed on outstanding seniors of Southwestern Medical School, was instituted by the Foundation in 1943 to recognize those who have the “inherent personal attributes embodied in all great physicians.” Since its creation, the award has been given to only seventy-four of more than eight thousand graduating seniors. Recipients have gone on to distinguished medical careers. Dr. Goldstein won the 1985 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
The Importance of Endowments
Thanks to the generosity of many far-sighted individuals, corporations, foundations and philanthropic organizations, Southwestern Medical Foundation has been able to raise the funds to create over 500 endowments and restricted funds benefiting UT Southwestern and its affiliated institutions. These endowments provide a sustained stream of income that is used to recruit and retain some of the most outstanding medical researchers and clinicians in the world. Pictured here from left to right are Nobel Laureates Drs. Johann Deisenhofer, Alfred Gilman, Joseph L. Goldstein and Michael S. Brown, whose world-class research and academic leadership have set a standard of excellence and achievement at UT Southwestern that others feel compelled to follow.
Medical Equipment
Throughout its history, Southwestern Medical Foundation has helped fund the acquisition of state-of-the-art medical equipment for the medical center.  In 2007, The Harold Simmons Foundation gave more than $1 million to purchase equipment for the Annette Simmons Stereotactic Treatment Center.  UT Southwestern’s Stereotactic and Image-Guided Radiation Therapy Programs bring together cutting-edge clinical research, advanced technologies, and a multidisciplinary team of faculty members, researchers and physicians.  Stereotactic therapy is a non-invasive treatment in which high-dose radiation beams are delivered to a tumor or lesion in a concentrated, extremely precise manner.
Charles Cameron Sprague Community Service Award
In 1991, Southwestern Medical Foundation created its Community Service Award to honor individuals in the North Texas region who have provided significant support to the improvement of medical education, medical research and patient care. The award was renamed in 1996 for Dr. Charles Cameron Sprague, president emeritus of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and chairman emeritus of the Foundation. Since its creation, the Charles Cameron Sprague Community Service Award has been bestowed on distinguished civic and business leaders who have given generously of their time and resources to make life better for others.
Chairs
Endowed chairs, professorships, research and clinical centers held at Southwestern Medical Foundation provide essential income in perpetuity to support the research, teaching and patient care missions of UT Southwestern. These endowments not only provide unique opportunities for programs to flourish, but also give UT Southwestern critical leverage when competing for national grants and help substantially in recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty. Pictured here is UT Southwestern neurosurgeon Dr. Bruce Mickey, holder of the William Kemp Clark Chair in Neurological Surgery.  He directs the Annette G. Strauss Center for Neuro-Oncology and serves as vice chairman of neurological surgery and professor of otolaryngology -- head and neck surgery.