Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Shirley Ester, Mary Stepp, Timothy Daley Brooks Bunting Gladys Jenkins Francine Smith Temple University School of Medicine • 17

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Virginia Morris Dr. Elliot Goldberg Diane Mendez and Chante Jefferson M. Judith Russo Mary Jackson 16 • 2002 Skull

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IN MEMORIAM Helen R. Buckley, Ph.D. Helen R. Buckley, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple University Hospital and School of Medicine, died on February 28. 2001 (Ash Wednesday) following esophageal cancer. She was 65. After receipt of her B.S. in Biology from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Dr. Buckley served as a research Assistant at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University (1956-61). She then went on to pursue a fellowship in Portugal (1961-64), and later received a Diploma in Immunology from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Medical Mycology from the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1968). In 1977, she moved to Philadelphia and became an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the TUSM.and Director of the Mycology Laboratory at the TUH. In 1984 she rose to the rank of Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple. Dr. Buckley was a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America. She served on numerous committees, both at Temple and abroad. She was probably best known and loved as a teacher and mentor of medical and graduate students. Dr. Buckley was an advisor to 7 Master s degree graduate students, 13 Ph.D. candidates, and 6 post-doctoral fellows, many of whom have moved on to important and influential positions in microbiology, public health, and medicine. She has been recognized for her insightful, encouraging and supportive teaching roles, and was the recipient of the George A. Sowell Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching, and the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Buckley has been very active and influential in the teaching of human fungal disease to medical students, graduate students, allied health students, residents, dermatologists and others. She was actively involved with the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program, which provides summer research opportunities for interested high school students from underrepresented minority groups. This program, and Dr. Buckley particularly, offered both inspiration and training for the pursuit of further education in medical sciences for many young students. As a research mentor to African-American and Latino high school students from Philadelphia and elsewhere. Dr. Buckley often chose the youngest students in the program in the hopes of working with them over several years. She was a very kind and patient mentor, and was often very successful in conveying the passion she felt for her work to her students, particularly by emphasizing how their research work would directly affect and benefit patients. As an acknowledgement of her activities in the mentoring of minority students. Dr. Buckley was to receive the 2001 William A. Hinton Research Training Award from the American Society for Microbiology. The award is presented by the ASM in honor of Dr. William A. Hinton, a physician-research scientist whose work advanced the field of diagnostic microbiology and who had the distinctive honor of being one of the first African-Americans to become a member of the ASM. Helen will be sorely missed not only by her immediate family but countless friends, colleagues. and former students who loved her dearly. She gave infinitely of herself to all she encountered, and her memory will live on and flourish in those who learned from her. Excerpts taken from obituary by Dr. Allan L. Truant 18 • 2002 Skull