2022-Gala Program Online Honoree -4.14.2022
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HONOREE<br />
BARBARA J. STOLL ’71, MD<br />
National Academy of Medicine<br />
Barbara J. Stoll is president of the China Medical<br />
Board (CMB), a US-based foundation working to<br />
advance health in China and Southeast Asia by<br />
strengthening medical, nursing, and public health<br />
education and research, and supporting leadership<br />
development. Prior to joining CMB, she served<br />
as the first woman dean of McGovern Medical<br />
School at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center. Earlier, she<br />
was the George W. Brumley, Jr. Professor and chair of the Department<br />
of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. She holds a Doctor<br />
of Medicine degree from Yale Medical School and completed pediatric<br />
training at Columbia and Emory.<br />
Dr. Stoll’s research has focused on perinatal epidemiology, neonatal<br />
infections, randomized clinical trials in neonatology, and international child<br />
health. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, she has produced<br />
over 400 publications, including articles, chapters, editorials, and reports. She<br />
has worked at institutions in several countries, including the International<br />
Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh, the University of<br />
Goteborg in Sweden, and the World Health Organization in Geneva.<br />
Dr. Stoll is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American<br />
Academy of Pediatrics, and she has served as president of the American<br />
Pediatric Society, the oldest pediatric academic society in the US. She<br />
has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the John<br />
Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society and the Frank Morris<br />
Pediatric Leadership Award from the University of Iowa.
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