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Carter Awarded the Lillian C. O’Brien and Dr. C. S. O’Brien Chair in Ophthalmology
The investiture program began with a procession of department executive officers, current endowed chair holders in the Carver College of Medicine, faculty from the department, and senior Carver College of Medicine and University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics staff in full academic regalia. This ceremonial procession set the tone for a meaningful and distinguished event.
Remarks at the ceremony were given by UI Vice President Jean Robillard, Interim University of Iowa President Gary Fethke, Flynn Andrizzi, Senior Vice President of Development of the University of Iowa Foundation, Dr. Carter, and Jim O’Brien Gross, grandson of Dr. and Mrs. C.S. O'Brien who represented the donor family.
Medallions were presented to Dr. Carter and Mr. Gross and a reception followed the ceremony.
We congratulate Dr. Carter for this achievement.
Cecil Starling O'Brien, M.D. (1889-1977), was recruited to the University of Iowa in 1925 and officially founded the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa in 1927. The Department was the first independent Department of ophthalmology west of the Mississippi River. Dr. O'Brien is credited with the establishment of a strong department that has made many important contributions to ophthalmology. His wife, Lillian C. O’Brien (1904-2006) was a long-time supporter of the Department. The C. S. O'Brien Library within the Department was established in 1973, in tribute to Dr. O'Brien's immense contributions in making the ophthalmology department at the UI a premier clinical, teaching, and research center.
More information about Dr. O’Brien is available at http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/DEPT/LEGACY/obrien/csobrien.htm.
