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17 t m c » p u l s e | d e c 2 0 1 9/JA N 2 02 0 MD Anderson | Monroe Dunaway Anderson, a cotton magnate, left his fortune to a foundation that partnered with the state to build the first cancer hospital in Texas. The entity was created by the Texas Legislature in 1941 as part of The University of Texas System. The institution is known today as The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Bertner | Ernst William Bertner, M.D., was a founder of the Texas Medical Center and its first president. He was also the first director of MD Anderson. In his work as a gynecologist, Bertner delivered a baby boy who grew up to become pioneering Houston heart surgeon Denton Cooley, M.D. Cullen | In 1945, oilman-philanthropist Hugh Roy Cullen bestowed $1 million to several Most everyone knows that LBJ refers to Texas-born President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In Houston, though, LBJ is also the name of a Harris Health System hospital, part of the vast network of 60-plus institutions that comprise the Texas Medical Center. Of course, there are many other names on the streets and buildings of the TMC—names that belong to the physicians, families and visionaries who have influenced Houston's medical city. What's in a Name? THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STREETS AND BUILDINGS OF THE TMC B y C i n d y G e o r g e hospitals in Houston—a suite known as the Cullen Gifts—that helped build landmarks of the TMC. Hermann Hospital, the forerunner to Memorial Hermann, was able to construct a new hospital. Houston Methodist also had the resources to build a new hospital in the TMC. In addition, a gift to the Episcopalians enabled that denomi- nation to establish its first hospital in Houston, St. Luke's, the predecessor to Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. An $800,000 gift from Hugh and Lillie Cullen helped Baylor College of Medicine complete its initial building. The family's Cullen Foundation, established in 1947, continues to support health and medical causes in Houston. The Cullen name endures through a pavilion at Memorial Hermann, a memorial chapel at Baylor St. Luke's, an eye institute at Baylor College of Medicine as well as a main thoroughfare and auditorium at the University of Houston. ➟ Holcombe Boulevard is named for Oscar Fitzallen Holcombe, a construction entrepreneur and former Houston mayor.