Harry W. McFadden, Jr., M.D.

Dr. Harry W. McFadden, Jr., received an A.B. degree Upon his retirement, the separated departments from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1943) and of and Laboratory and his M.D. degree from the University of Nebraska Medical and were Medical Center (1943), being elected Phi Beta Kappa remerged as the combined Department of in college and Alpha Omega Alpha in . Pathology and Microbiology. Following completion of a rotating internship and pathology at the University of Nebraska Dr. McFadden was an outstanding educator, and Hospital (1944-1945, 1947-1949), interrupted by two was beloved by medical students. He received years in the armed services (1945-1947), he joined the Teaching Award by the senior class in 1953, the faculty at the University of Nebraska Medical was named the Outstanding Educator and Friend Center (UNMC) in 1949 in the Department of by the senior class of 1955, and he received the Pathology and Bacteriology as an instructor, staying at Basic Science Award for teaching by the senior UNMC his entire career. He was promoted to class in 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, and 1967. In Assistant Professor (1952) when the department addition to his outstanding contributions to changed its name to Pathology and Microbiology and and his leadership in the became the first (and only) Chair of the newly formed Department of and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology Immunology, he was dedicated to UNMC and in 1955, a position in which he served until his performed whatever tasks were asked of him, retirement in 1985. He was promoted to Professor in including serving as the Interim Dean for 1968. He had joint appointments in Microbiology and Graduate Studies (1972-1979, a very long time to in Pathology, and was the Director of the Medical serve in an interim role) and as Interim Microbiology Laboratories of the University Hospital. Chancellor, twice (February – June 1972 and September 1976 – July 1977).

He was also active at the local and national level, serving as President of the Nebraska Association of Pathologists and Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Nebraska Medical Association. He was elected to the Council on Microbiology of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and served as its chairman for two years. Most notably, he served as a trustee of the American Board of Pathology (1970-1982), serving as its President in 1981. For his outstanding contributions to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, he was awarded the Jack Elliott Award in 1985, and was named one of the Nebraska Medical Center’s legends in 2006.

Department of Pathology and Microbiology College of Medicine University of Nebraska Medical Center “A true gentleman”

Harry W. McFadden, Jr., M.D. Lectureship

The Lectureship was The first presenter of the The lectures were always established in 1985 by Drs. Lectureship, Dr. Tucker attended by both Dr. David Purtilo and Samuel LeBein, had been one of Dr. McFadden and his wife, Jo, Cohen to honor his valuable McFadden’s graduate until their deaths, and and numerous contributions students. The Lectureship frequently also by their son, to pathology, microbiology, has become one of the Dr. Harry E. McFadden and and the University of most notable occasions of his family, and by their Nebraska Medical Center. the year at UNMC, and has daughter, Mary Jean The Lectureship was included numerous McFadden. expanded by the Class of outstanding lecturers, 1964 College of Medicine including three Nobel Prize Alumni in 1989 on their 25th Laureates as well as a reunion as a tribute to his Governor of the State of role as an outstanding Nebraska (The Honorable educator, practitioner, and Dave Heineman, 2005). friend. He was revered by many. McFadden Lectures

1994 “Sociomicrobiology: Communication and Robin A. Weiss, Ph.D., HonMRCP, Coordination of Group Activities In PRCPath ” Director of Research and Professor of Viral 2008 Chester Beatty Laboratories Olaf Schneewind, M.D., Ph.D. Institute of Cancer Research, London, Louis Block Professor & Chairman England Department of Microbiology “How Retroviruses Enter Cells” The University of Chicago “Protein Assembly in the Cell Wall 1995-1997 Envelope of Gram-Positive Bacteria” No Lectures Presented 2009 1998 No Lecture Presented 2011 McFadden Lecture Peter Charles Doherty, DVSc, Ph.D. Professor and Nobel Laureate 2010 Pictured left to right are Drs. Zhixin Zhang, Max Cooper, Department of Pathology & Jay K. Kolls, M.D. Harry McFadden, Jr., and Steven Hinrichs University of Tennessee Chair, Department of Genetics Louisiana “Immunity in Acute and Persistent State University ” “The Role of Th17 Cytokines in Mucosal 1987 Immunology” Tucker LeBein, Ph.D. 1999 Department of Pathology Ralph van Furth, M.D., Ph.D. Emeritus 2010 University of Minnesota Professor of and Kim D. Janda, Ph.D. “Growth Control and Differentiation of Infectious Chaired Professor Human B Cell Precursors” University of Leiden The Scripps Research Institute “The Marriage Between Macrophages “”Interfacing Chemistry with Biology to 1988 and Cytokines” Discover Molecules with Function” Flossie Wong-Stall, Ph.D. Laboratory of Tumor 2000 2011 National Cancer Institute Cornelis (Cox) P. Terhorst, Ph.D. Max Cooper, M.D. “HIV Gene Regulation and Professor of Immunology Professor ” Harvard Medical School Pathology & Georgia Research Chief of Division of Immunology Alliance Eminent Scholar 1989 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Emory University School of Medicine Michael B. A. Oldstone, M.D. “X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease: “Evolution of Adaptive Immunity” Nobel Laureate How a Small Gene Prevents a Department of Immunology Progressive Immunodeficiency” 2015 Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation Susan Sharp, Ph.D., ABMM, FAAM “How Autoimmunity: The 2001-2004 Director Mechanisms of Viral Mimicry” No Lectures Presented Regional Microbiology and Molecular Infectious Laboratories Kaiser 1991 2005 Permanente George Klein, M.D. The Honorable Dave Heineman “Genomics and Proteomics, is this the Head, Department of Tumor Biology Governor of Nebraska end of 'culture' in microbiology?” Karolinska Institute “Building on the Nebraska Model for Stockholm, Sweden Bioterrorism Preparedness” 2016 “Tumor Biology of Burkitt’s Lymphoma” Joel Ernst, M.D. 2006 Director 1992 Alexander Tomasz, Ph.D. Division of Infectious Diseases and Robert A. Good, M.D., Ph.D., D,Sc. Plutarch Papamarkou Professor, Immunology, NYU School of Medicine -in-Chief, All Children’s Hospital Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology "Immunity to a 3 million year old Professor Microbiology-Immunology Rockefeller University - in the 21st University of Florida “Multiple Strategies of Vancomycin century" “Immunodeficiencies as Experiments of Resistance in Staphylococci” Nature: Continuing Value of a 2017 Perspective” 2007 No Lecture Presented E. Peter Greenberg, Ph.D. 1993 Professor, Department of Microbiology 2018 David Baltimore, Ph.D. University of Washington Aron E. Lukacher, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Nobel Laureate Professor and Chair, Department of Rockefeller University Microbiology and Immunology New York, NY Penn Sate University “NFkB Story” "Polyomavirus CNS Immunovirology"