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On March 5, 2004, the family of the late Dr. Watanakunakorn, of Youngstown, Ohio, presented NEOMED with the thenlargest charitable gift in the College’s 30year history. Totaling more than $3 million, the gift is used to advance medical education in Northeast Ohio, create an endowed chair in microbiology and immunology in Dr. Watanakunakorn’s name and provide this lectureship series for health care professionals throughout the region.

From 1979 to 2001, Dr. Watanakunakorn, served as a professor of internal medicine at the University. At the time of his death in July 2001, Dr. Watanakunakorn was hospital epidemiologist and chief of infectious diseases at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. He received several awards from professional organizations, including the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Physicians Master Teacher Award, The American College of International Physicians Distinguished Physician Award, and the Infectious Disease Society of America 2000 Clinician Award. He also was a master of the American College of Physicians.

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Dr. Armitage is a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Case Western Reserve University and is the vice chair for education and residency director in the Department of Internal Medicine at University Hospitals. He currently serves as the medical director for the Roe Green Center for Travel Medicine and Global Health. His primary professional focus has been on postgraduate medical education, clinical infectious diseases and travel medicine.

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