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the state’s Outstanding Doctor of the Year by the Texas State Medical Association. Dr. McKay died
in 1966 at the age of 87 at his home in Humble.
The Haden Edwards McKay, Jr., M.D. Collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles,
correspondence, and programs relating to Dr. McKay’s career in public service and medicine from
the period 1975 to his death in 1996. The collection also includes programs and other materials
relating to the dedication of the McKay Medical Clinic Museum in Humble on March 18, 2001. The
Center’s artifact collections also includes several medical items from Dr. McKay’s practice,
including a tray, syringes, scissors, hemostat and blade, as well as a belt buckle bearing the city seal
of Humble, Texas.
Medalie, Jack H., M.D., MPH (1922-2006)
1972-1992
7 boxes and 1 slim document case – See also: Audio-Visual Collection; Library Collection; and
Photograph Collection
Jack H. Medalie, M.D., MPH was born in 1922 in Buhl, Minnesota. As a boy, he immigrated to
South Africa with his family. He received his medical degree in 1945 from the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and completed an internship that same year at
Johannesburg Hospital, after which he practiced medicine in South Africa. In 1948, he and his wife
went to Israel and both joined the Israeli Army, Medalie serving as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense
Forces’ Medical Corps. They left the Israeli service in 1949 but remained in Israel until 1975, during
which time he practiced medicine and served as professor and chairman of the Department of Family
Medicine at Tel Aviv University. During this same period, he also completed fellowships at the
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa (1957) and at Harvard Medical School, Boston (1957-58),
and received his master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1958. Dr.
Medalie moved to Cleveland in 1975 to establish training programs for medical students and
graduate programs in Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. During his career, he
received several honors and awards, including being named the first Dorothy Jones Weatherhead
Professor in Family Medicine, believed to be the first endowed chair in Family Medicine in the
United States. In 1988, he received the STFM Curtis Hames Research Award for his lifetime
research of Family Medicine, and in 1998, he received the North American Primary Care Research
Group (NAPCRG)-sponsored Maurice Wood Award for his lifetime contribution to primary care
research. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in 1978 and
became an AAFP fellow in 1981. Dr. Medalie was recognized internationally for his research in
epidemiology, particularly related to cardiovascular diseases, and he was board certified in both
Family Medicine and Public Health. He died in 2006 in Cleveland.
The Jack H. Medalie, M.D., M.P.H. Collection contains files related to his lectures and conferences
where he presented papers, elective classes he taught at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU),
a summer fellowship he conducted at CWRU, a Family Medicine Information System he helped to
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