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                        JeffNEWS, October 5, 1994
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THE JEFFERSON 2000 FUND
Godwin Bequest Endows Professorship
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A final bequest of nearly $1 million from the estate of Bernard W. 
Godwin Jr., MD, JMC '55, endows a new professorship at Jefferson Medical 
College (JMC). 

Dr. Godwin, an allergist and clinical associate professor of medicine at 
Jefferson, specified in his will that the named professor be involved in 
the research, study and treatment of prostate cancer.

Joseph S. Gonnella, MD, senior vice president and dean, JMC, recently 
announced that Leonard Gomella, MD, is the first to hold the Bernard W. 
Godwin Jr., MD, Research Professorship of Cancer of the Prostate.

"Dr. Gomella is a highly respected urologic oncologist," said S. Grant 
Mulholland, MD, the Nathan Lewis Hatfield Professor of Urology and 
department chairman. "He has an extensive interest both in prostate cancer 
treatment and in basic research." According to Dr. Mulholland, 200,000 men 
in this country will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. The 
deadly disease is the most prevalent form of cancer in males.

Before coming to Jefferson, Dr. Gomella completed a fellowship at the 
National Cancer Institute.  He has been a member of the JMC faculty for 
five years and is a member of the Jefferson Cancer Institute.

"Being named the Godwin Professor is especially meaningful to me," he 
said, "because I had the opportunity to meet and care for Dr. Godwin when I 
first came to Jefferson."

The Godwin is the fourth endowed JMC professorship created this year as 
a result of gifts to The Jefferson 2000 Fund campaign.The Gerald J. Marks 
Professorship in Colorectal Surgery is held by Robert D. Fry, MD, director 
of the division of colorectal surgery. Robert L. Comis, MD, director of the 
division of neoplastic diseases and clinical director of the Jefferson 
Cancer Center, is the new Ludwig A. Kind Professor of Medicine; and Marluce 
Bibbo, MD, ScD, director of cytopathology, was named the first Warren R. 
Lang Professor of Pathology.


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