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Medicine, serving as its founding chair. He also served as an associate and later acting dean of the
University’s School of Medicine. In 1988, he returned to clinical practice part-time in Anacortes,
Washington, while continuing to teach at the university. An active member of several Family
Medicine organizations, Dr. Phillips served as president of the Society of Teachers of Family
Medicine (STFM) from 1978 to 1979 and received the Society’s Certificate of Excellence Award in
1981. In 1991, Dr. Phillips was appointed as a member of the Agency for Health Care Policy and
Research (AHCPR) National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research and Evaluation. He
retired in May of 1994.
The Theodore J. Phillips, M.D. Collection consists of a collection of Dr. Phillips’ published articles
from 1969 to 1995, including a copy of his March 1988 manuscript of “Family Medicine: Twenty-
Five Years of University of Washington History” and a draft of the Blanchard Memorial Lecture he
delivered at the STFM meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 7, 1995 entitled “Community, the
Defining Basis of Family Practice: Opportunities for Nurturing our Communities Today.”
Pisacano, Nicholas J., M.D. (1924-1990)
1964-1990
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Nicholas J. Pisacano, M.D., was born on June 6, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but was raised
five miles away in Merchantville, New Jersey. Pisacano began his education in 1941 at Western
Maryland College but was interrupted a year later by World War II. He served in the United States
Army during the war from 1942 to 1946. Between 1946 and 1947 Pisacano finished his B.A. and
continued on to medical school at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. After four years of
training, Pisacano earned his M.D. in 1951 and completed his internship and residency at Stamford
Hospital in Connecticut between 1951 and 1953. He opened a rural practice straight out of residency
in South Royalton, Vermont; he operated this practice until 1955. Between 1955 and 1962, he
maintained a city practice in Philadelphia. He then decided to enter the academic scene at the
University of Kentucky, first as the Director of Continuing Medical Education (1962-1968) and then
as Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1966-1972). During his initial time in
Lexington, Dr. Pisacano also became the founding secretary of the American Board of Family
Practice, established in 1969, which established Family Practice (ABFP) as an official specialty, the
20 th overall. He remained the Executive Director and Secretary for the first twenty years of the board
and as an Associate Professor at UK until his untimely death in 1990. In 2005, the ABFP was
renamed the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). Dr. Pisacano was also a member of the
Kentucky Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, American Medical Association, and
American Academy of Family Physicians. He also received the Thomas W. Johnson Award in 1977
for excellence in medical education.
The Nicholas J. Pisacano, M.D. Collection consists of a booklet of remembrance for the
establishment of the Nicholas J. Pisacano Endowed Chair in Family Practice at the University of
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