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19 t m c » p u l s e | d e c 2 0 1 9/JA N 2 02 0 Museum of Health and Medical Sciences has been a TMC member since 1995, and the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center is housed at the Texas Medical Center Library, a TMC affiliate since 1949. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) medical school became the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School to honor the physician and his wife following a $75 million gift in 2015—the largest contribution in the institution's history to that date. John P. McGovern died in 2007 at age 85. Quentin Mease | Quentin Ronald Mease, a social worker, was instrumental in desegre- gating public spaces in Houston including the YMCA and the Astrodome. He had an important role in creating Harris Health System and served on its board of managers. The system named a community hospital after him. Quentin Mease Hospital, now a rehabilitation facility on North MacGregor Way, is facing another transformation. The building is now being renovated to become an outpatient care center. Mease died in 2009 at 100. Menninger | Menninger is the last name of a family of Kansas psychiatrists, a father and two sons, who opened their first clinic for inpatient care in 1925, had the nation's first group psychiatric practice and established a school of psychiatry in 1946 that became the country's largest at the time—fueled by returning World War II veterans. A partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist moved The Menninger Clinic from Topeka, Kansas, to Houston in 2003. Nora's Home | When Nora Gaber, 7, died in a 1998 automobile accident, her donated organs saved and impacted many lives. Her parents, Houston physicians Osama and Lillian Gaber, worked to support organ donor research through a foundation and to provide organ transplant patients free lodging while in Houston for care. Nora's Home on El Rio St. expanded to 32 rooms in 2018. Ben Taub | The medical benefactor was instrumental in convincing Baylor College of Medicine officials to move the medical school from Dallas to the Texas Medical Center in 1943 and in establishing its con- nection with Houston's hospital system providing health care for the indigent. Taub is a former director of the Texas Medical Center. In 1963, Harris Health System named its new charity hospital in his honor. Taub also helped run DePelchin Children's Center when it was known as DePelchin Faith Home and was a popular visitor with the children because of his peppermint candies. Zayed | His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the president of the United Arab Emirates. His name graces MD Anderson's Zayed Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy after a 2011 gift of $150 million, the largest dona- tion to the cancer research hospital at the time. Inset photo credits: Hermann, courtesy of McGovern Historical Center, Texas Medical Center Library; Ben Taub, courtesy of Harris Health System. Ben Taub and Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.

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