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The Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA 11:32 AM EDT Thursday Fuqua gives millions more to Emory Businessman and philanthropist J. B. Fuqua has pledged $2 million to endow the J.B. Fuqua Chair in Late-Life Depression in the Emory University School of Medicine. In 1999, Fuqua gave $2 million to help found and support the Fuqua Center for Late-Life Depression at Emory University's Wesley Woods Center. Dr. William M. McDonald, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Fuqua Center for Late-Life Depression, has been nominated as the initial J.B. Fuqua Chair in Late-Life Depression. McDonald has been at Emory since 1993. His research and clinical practice focus on mood disorders, including both mania and depression, in older persons and patients with neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's dementia. McDonald also directs medical student education in psychiatry and won teaching awards this year from both the Emory medical students and nationally from the American Psychiatric Association. "To me, Dr. McDonald epitomizes the ideal combination of personal compassion and scientific enterprise that I hope will always be found in the occupant of the Fuqua Chair," Fuqua said. "The endowment is intended to support physicians who are working primarily in the field of late-life depression and who are able to help move scientific discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside for the benefit of patients." SOURCE: The Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA / American City Business Journals http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2003/07/07/daily28.html * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn