August 21, 2003
Symposium honors George Kenny
The School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Pathobiology is sponsoring a symposium on Tuesday, Sept. 9, to honor Dr. George Kenny, a UW faculty member for more than 40 years. The program is free and open to everyone.
This year, Kenny has retired and been named a professor emeritus of pathobiology, although he plans to continue some research and teaching.
The George Kenny Symposium will be from 1 to 5:30 p.m. in room K-069 of the Health Sciences Center. A reception will follow from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the T-wing fourth floor lounge, T-469.
Dr, Kenneth Stuart, current chair of the department, will introduce the program, along with Dr. Lee Ann Campbell, associate chair, and Dr. Ted Kuo, professor of pathobiology.
Along with several UW faculty speakers, Dr. Scott McIvor of the University of Minnesota and Dr. Ethel Garcia-Latorre from Mexico are on the program.
For a full schedule of speakers and topics, see the pathobiology Web Site at http://depts.washington.edu/pathobio/
Kenny, known around the world for his extensive research on mycoplasmas, organisms that cause respiratory and genital infection, joined the Department of Preventive Medicine in the UW School of Medicine in 1961, the same year he earned a Ph.D. degree in microbiology from the University of Minnesota.
When the preventive medicine unit became the School of Public Health and Community Medicine in 1970, he was named chair of the Department of Pathobiology, one of the five departments in the newly formed school. He held that post for 20 years, stepping down from the chair in 1991.
