March 8, 2001

Madura Named Battersby Professor Of Surgery

INDIANAPOLIS -- James A. Madura, M.D., has been named the J. Stanley Battersby Professor of Surgery by the Trustees of Indiana University.

Dr. Madura received his medical degree from Western Reserve University and completed an internship and residency at The Ohio State University Hospital. He served as chief resident from 1970-71. He completed a fellowship as the NIH Academic Trainee in Surgery and was a research fellow at Duke University Division of Immunology. He joined the IU School of Medicine faculty in 1971.

The J. Stanley Battersby Professorship in Surgery was established in 1986 by his friends, colleagues and former residents in recognition of his 40 years of service to the IUSM Department of Surgery. Dr. Battersby, who is the Willis D. Gatch Professor Emeritus of Surgery, became the first full-time member of the IU School of Medicine Department of Surgery in 1943.

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