Charles McDaniel Rosser, MD
1862-1945

Dr Rosser began his practice in Dallas in 1890 and founded Good Samaritan Hospital in 1901, which later became Baylor Hospital. That same year he established Dallas' first medical school, the medical department of the University of Dallas, which later became Baylor Medical College. Dr Rosser was president of DCMS in 1923 and presided over the Texas State Medical Society in 1925. Dr Rosser was among the first to advocate for an office building dedicated to Dallas physicians and used his influence to promote the Medical Arts Building.

Edward H. Cary, MD
1872-1953

Dr Cary came to Dallas in 1901 to join the faculty of the medical department at Dr C.M. Rosser's request. By 1910 he was the DCMS president. His leadership spanned organized medicine including terms as president of the Texas Ophthalmological and Otolaryngological Society, Southern Medical Association, Texas Medical Society, and American Medical Association (1933). He was an integral part of establishing medical education in Dallas with Baylor University College of Medicine, which he served as dean from 1902 to 1922 and dean emeritus from 1929 to 1943. As president of the Southwestern Medical Foundation, he helped launch Southwestern Medical College in 1943. He was a major advocate in the Medical Arts Building, which his family owned until it was sold in the early 1970s. He received Dallas' Linz award in 1975 and E.H. Cary Middle School in Dallas is named in his honor.

Oscar Milton Marchman Sr, MD
1872-1959

Dr Marchman served as president for the Texas Ophthalmological and Otolaryngological Society, Southern Medical Association, and DCMS (1917). He was dean of Baylor University College of Medicine, helped organize the Dallas Academy of Medicine in 1946, and became its first president. He helped organize the Dallas Health Museum-now The Science Place-and was one of its trustees. The Marchman Award, once presented to physicians by the Dallas Southern Clinical Society, was named in his honor for a physician who had made outstanding contributions in medical education and research.

Joseph W. Bourland Sr, MD
1872-1959

Dr Bourland practiced in Dallas from 1879 until he retired in 1955. He founded and served as a director of the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic. He presided over the Texas Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and was a member of Parkland Hospital's Board of Governors for 10 years. He is most remembered for inventing the incubator for premature babies.

Calvin R. Hannah, MD
1872-1940

Dr Hannah was DCMS president in 1914 and president of the Texas Medical Society in 1938. He was the first president of the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He spent 17 years as Parkland Hospital's chief of staff, was active with Hope Cottage since its inception, and in 1930 was appointed as a member of the White House conference on child health an prenatal and maternal care.

Curtice Rosser, MD
1891-1969

Dr Rosser began practicing with his father, C.M. Rosser, MD, in 1919. The junior Rosser took his father as a mentor in organized medicine as well, becoming president of DCMS in 1940, Dallas Southern Clinical Society, Southern Medical Association, and the American Proctology Society. He was the first president of the national examining board established for proctology.

Charles Max Cole, MD
1914-

Dr Cole's leadership in organized medicine led DCMS to create an annual leadership award in his honor for a physician who demonstrates outstanding service to the profession of medicine and to the community. He was its first recipient in 1985. He has served as TMA president in 1969, on the AMA Board of Trustees, and on numerous local, state, and national committees, including chair of the Dallas Health Fair at Memorial Auditorium in conjunction with the AMA meeting in 1959.

Charles C. Sprague, MD
1916-

Dr Sprague served as president of UT Southwestern from 1972 to 1987 and serves as chairman emeritus of Southwestern Medical Foundation. It was during his tenure at UT Southwestern that Michael Brown, MD, and Joseph Goldstein, MD, received the Nobel Prize for medicine, which resulted in international recognition for Dallas' medical school, which has more active Nobel laureates on its faculty than any other in the world.

M.T. Pepper Jenkins, MD
1917-1994

Dr Jenkins became chief of the Department of Anesthesiology at Parkland Hospital in 1948 and established the first surgical recovery room west of the Mississippi River. His pioneering efforts in anesthesiology, including establishing the use of salt fluids to prevent shock during surgical procedures, helped boost the national reputation of UT Southwestern. He received AMA's Distinguished Service Award in 1988 and was honored with numerous awards nationally and world-wide.

Donald W. Seldin, MD
1920-

In 1951 Dr Seldin was the sole member of the Department of Medicine at UT Southwestern, when the school did not have a full-time chairman in any clinical department. A new dean persuaded Dr Seldin to take the post of chair of the Department of Medicine, where he stayed for the next 35 years, helping to build the medical school into a first-class institution.

Phil H. Berry Jr, MD
1937-

As a liver transplant recipient in 1986, Dr Berry gained a renewed compassion for patients' concerns. During his term as TMA president in 1997 (he was DCMS president in 1990), he developed the "Live and Then Give" campaign to increase awareness about transplant donations. The AMA adopted the campaign and took it national. His dedication earned him the Max Cole Leadership Award in 1996 and in 2000 he received the Benjamin Rush Award for citizenship and community service from the AMA.

Following DCMS Members Through Time

Since about 1910, DCMS officers kept a file on each member that included their application, curriculum vitae, and other notable paperwork and press clippings.

DCMS tracked membership numbers by counting index cards and logging the counts with a pencil in the meeting minutes books. By 1970 three members staffed DCMS.

In 1984, DCMS entered the computer age with its custom software program MARS, or Membership and Referral Service. While DCMS continues to keep paper files, MARS makes updating information and tracking membership numbers a simple click away.

MARS allowed DCMS to begin a referral service in 1986 and allows DCMS physicians to make available certain information about their practices through the Physician Facts page at www.dallas-cms.org. Soon members can access information via a directory download to their hand-held computer.

Now it takes a staff of 12 to serve DCMS membership: Michael J. Darrouzet, executive officer; Bonnie Weikel, assistant executive officer; Barbara Breeding, executive assistant; Connie Webster, director of community service; Tracy Knight, director of public affairs; Shellie Pruden, director of medical practice relations; Kara Thom, director of communications; Jackie Campbell, production assistant/bookkeeper; Deanna Wooten, director of membership and member services; Donna Kracmer, membership coordinator; John Hall, printer; and Ana Yeager-Jason, receptionist.