The William B. and Gertrude F. Coen Lectureship
This lectureship was established in 1991 and funded by the Coen family to honor the late Gertrude F. and Dr. William B. Coen. The purpose of this funded lectureship is to foster effective communication between hospital staff, patients, and those close to the patient, an issue of great importance to Dr. Coen during his many years of exemplary service at Baystate Medical Center.
William B. Coen, one of the first physician administrators of Baystate Medical Center, helped two community hospitals evolve into one medical center with the merger that established Baystate Medical Center in 1976. Appointed acting Vice-President for Medical Affairs, Dr. Coen helped resolve difficult issues of merger with patience, skill, and commitment to the idea of the new medical center.
An internist, Dr. Coen undertook administrative work to meet the needs of the former Wesson Memorial Hospital where he was first appointed Director of Clinical Services in 1972. At the time, there were very few physician administrators. Since then, the position of physician-administrator has developed in response to the needs of a changing health care environment. Decisions facing hospitals are more complex today, with far-reaching implications for physicians, patients and the public. A physician can bring a fresh and unique perspective to hospital deliberations. Dr. Coen did that throughout his service at Baystate, benefiting both the hospital and the community.
Born in Russia, Dr. Coen graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, and first joined Wesson Memorial Hospital in 1938. After retiring from administrative duties in 1980, he remained on the active staff of Baystate until 1985.
Martin I. Broder Education Day
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Detroit, Dr. Martin I. Broder received his M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where he experienced firsthand the effects of innovative medical education. This was followed by medical internship, residency, and chief residency at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital (now MetroHealth Medical Center) with one year at the University of Chicago Hospitals. During this period he benefited from working with medical educators who embodied the ideals of professionalism, teamwork, collegiality, and willingness to experiment with different approaches to medical education at all levels. Cardiology fellowship followed at the University of London Institute of Cardiology and National Heart Hospital in London, England where he was able to compare and contrast the different approaches to teaching and learning in the United States and Great Britain.
Dr. Broder has received a Teaching Scholarship from the American Heart Association and numerous citations for Excellence in Teaching from Tufts University School of Medicine. He now teaches medical students at Tufts and cardiology fellows at Baystate, as well as working on curricular projects in the Office of Educational Affairs such as the development of better techniques for linking the knowledge and experiences of medical residency program directors with accrediting bodies developing new standards for medical residency education. He has also been on the faculties of the medical schools of Case Western Reserve University and Georgetown University.
Division of endocrinology, Diabetes & metabolism
Dr. Louis A. Izenstein Visiting Professorship and Lectures in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
Started by the Dr. Louis Izenstein’s family, upon his death in 1996, these lectures were developed by the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism to honor the memory of Dr. Izenstein. Dr. Izenstein was a pioneer and visionary, a native of Springfield that returned to the area upon finishing his training to develop an Academic Department of Medicine with the special focus on the development of high level faculty and to bring the state-of-the-art to the management of Diabetes.
A dedicated and highly regarded physician in the then Springfield Hospital, he devoted most of his clinical activities to provide comprehensive care to patients of all ages with diabetes. The Izenstein Fund is to bring an expert in the field of diabetes, metabolism or obesity, a nationally and internationally renowned figure to Baystate Medical Center. The award intends to recognize an investigator whose research has or will significantly advance the prevention or treatment of such disorders.
Dr. Burritt L. Haag Visiting Professorship and Lectures in Thyroid Disease and Physiology
Commencing in 2007, Genzyme Corporation has funded these lectures that recognize an investigator's contributions to the understanding of the physiology, pathophysiology and diseases of the thyroid gland that have or will improve the prevention or treatment of disorders of the thyroid gland and its hormones.
The lecture has been named after Dr. Burritt L. Haag for his lifelong commitment to improve the management of the thyroid gland disorders, and having the vision and the courage to bringing the state-of-the-art in methods and techniques to Baystate Medical Center and the region, oftentimes before they were established in greater centers and thus putting Baystate in the lead in these regards.
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Isaac Lewin Symposium
This multidisciplinary symposium on a cancer-related topic (eg, lung cancer, cancer pain, targeted cancer therapy, etc.) was named for Isaac Lewin, MD, a physician who was very active in starting a tumor registry in the Pioneer Valley, and who himself died of lymphoma. Dr. Lewin's family left a bequest for this symposium.
Max Millman Symposium
When Dr. Max Millman died in 1974, his wife provided a sum of money to support this important annual symposium dedicated to the field of hematology. National and international physicians are brought in to discuss a topic in Hematology.
Dr. Max Millman was born in Russia in 1896. He came to this country in his teens, penniless and unable to speak the language of his adopted country. The Russian- speaking wife of a pharmacist became his tutor and he learned English very rapidly. Ever the student, Dr. Millman worked as a drug clerk, began studying pharmacy, and soon passed the registration exam to become a pharmacist. He went on to Clark University for premedical training and ultimately received his MD from Boston University in 1926. Dr. Millman began general practice in 1928 and continued until the day he died, some 46 years later. He was the first physician in this area to be Board certified in internal medicine. In 1936 he went to Vienna for post-graduate study. Upon his return he restricted his practice to internal medicine, with a special interest in cardiology and nutrition. He soon became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Through his love of writing he contributed many health columns in our local newspaper, subsequently became a regular contributor to the American Medical Association’s magazine Your Health, was appointed to the editorial board of the Hampden Hippocrat, and eventually became its Editor-in-Chief.
