DAVID GRESHAM/UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
Donald Seldin, chairman emeritus of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, died of lymphoma on Wednesday (April 25). In his 67-year career at the university, he oversaw the school’s transformation from a small facility to one of the leading medical centers in the country. Seldin was 97.
“It is important to recognize the magnitude of Dr. Seldin’s many professional achievements,” UT Southwestern President Daniel Podolsky says in a statement. “In his 36 years as Chairman of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern, he held a singular view of what an academic department should be and built a world-class department around that vision—which has been emulated across the country.”
A native of New York, Seldin was recruited to UT Southwestern in 1951 from ...
