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Photo: Truman Blocker Truman G. Blocker Society


Mission Statement

The Truman Blocker Society seeks to provide students with opportunities to relate to faculty in non-academic settings, aimed at increasing their awareness of health career choices and increase their scientific and clinical knowledge in ways extraordinary to, and complementary with, the standard curriculum; and provide mentors with opportunities to know their students better and thus provide for their educational and personal needs. Society members seek to engage in community service activities that build on the students' particular interests and the mentors' particular expertise; participate in a range of extra-curricular learning experiences including seminars, field trips, and interest groups, and, in all these endeavors, to have a good time.

Faculty Mentors

  • Daniel Breitkopf, M.D. (Osler Scholar)
  • Joan Nichols, M.D.
  • Alice Anne O'Donell, M.D. (Osler Scholar, emeritus)
  • Kirk Smith, M.D., Ph.D. (Coordinator)
  • James Soloway, M.D.
  • John D. Stobo, M.D.

Student Mentors

  • Magaret Wardlaw - 3rd year

News

2007-2008 Roster of Members

The 2007-2008 roster of members of the Blocker Society is available here for download in Adobe PDF format. To open or download the roster, please click here.

Biography of Dr. Blocker

Click here to open the biography of Dr. Blocker from the Summer/Fall 2000 edition of the UTMB Quarterly. (Adobe PDF)