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Retired physicians honored by Medical Staff colleagues
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JUNE
2005
Volume 29 •
No. 6
Retired physicians honored by Medical Staff colleagues
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Three prominent retired physicians with a total of 100 years of medical service in the community were honored May 24 at the semi-annual Medical Staff Meeting.
Honored by the Medical Board for outstanding professional careers and accomplishments were faculty orthopedist Donald A. Nagel, internal medicine specialist Stanford S. Kroopf, and family practice specialist Andrew W. White.
White received his medical degree from Howard University in 1956 before beginning a 39-year local practice. Adornato called White "a great model of the complete physician" who additionally has provided many decades of outstanding community leadership in a variety of key community organizations, as well as service as a voluntary faculty member.
In presenting the award, colleague David Schurman said Nagel "represents the best of the old Stanford medical school." Schurman called Nagel "the master of teaching." Nagel joined the Stanford faculty as associate professor and head of orthopedic surgery in 1974 after serving as a resident and faculty member at Yale University. He spent many years providing international service in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Kroopf graduated from Stanford in 1937 and Harvard Medical School in 1941. Following his residency and military service, Kroopf moved to Palo Alto to begin 40 years of practice in 1949. He was a founder of the coronary care unit at Stanford in 1962 - "a big contributor to Stanford," Adornato said.
