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Pioneer of occupational medicine promoted work for the disabled

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WILLIAM COOPER

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11-11-1916 10-11-2014

William Francis Cooper was born 10 months before his father, Lieutenant William Stanley Cooper, 107th Howitzer Battery, 7th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, died of multiple wounds at the 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium. Bill felt that loss all his life.

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Always interested in new knowledge, Bill was the first of many Cooper generations to go to university. He enrolled in science in 1936 then transferred to medicine in 1937.

He was an honours student of Professor of Physiology "Pansy" Wright and graduated from the University of Melbourne with the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. He did the six-year degree in five years as well as winning a university middleweight boxing title in 1941.

Bill served his residency years at the Royal Melbourne and Prince Henry's Hospital. Later he talked about the hopeless patients with infections resistant to sulfa drugs, the early antibiotics, who died in "septic" wards.

Bill was in a hurry. In 1942 he began working with general practitioner Dr O'Grady in St Kilda, graduated MB BS, and married Peggy Maxted.

He developed more skills working with the famed psychiatrist Dr Henry Maudsley and surgeon Mr Ted Prendergast, and bought into Dr O'Grady's practice.

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CU School of Medicine names Pitt's Dr. John J. Reilly Jr. new dean

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Dr. John J. Reilly Jr. (University of Colorado School of Medicine)

The University of Colorado has named its next dean of the School of Medicine, Dr. John J. Reilly Jr., former chair of the University of Pittsburgh's department of medicine and a pulmonary expert.

Reilly will become the new dean and the university's vice chancellor for health affairs on April 1.

He will succeed Dr. Richard D. Krugman, who is the longest-serving U.S. medical school dean, having been named acting dean in 1990 and appointed to the job in 1992.

Reilly, who joined Pittsburgh in 2008 after more than 20 years with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is a researcher with more than 100 peer-reviewed reports to his credit. He is a co-author of textbook chapters on internal medicine.

Reilly's areas of interest include genetic and environmental factors in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the role of specific enzymes in COPD, emphysema and lung cancer.

Reilly, who will hold the Richard D. Krugman School of Medicine Dean's Endowed Chair, graduated from Harvard Medical School after earning an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College.

Under Krugman, more than 4,000 physicians, physician assistants, physical therapists and medical scientists earned degrees.

Krugman announced one year ago he would step down when a successor was hired.

Electa Draper: 303-954-1276, edraper@denverpost.com or twitter.com/electadraper

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Strong Match, Advances in Workforce Reform Top Education Gains Last Year

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When it came to education and training issues important to family medicine in 2014, rising Match numbers and progress on both the workforce and graduate medical education reform fronts were among the highlights. Here's a look at some of the key events from the past year.

Catherine Louw at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, celebrates with her fianc, Ryan Coe, after learning she'll soon head to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Family Medicine Residency.

In February, AAFP News reported that more osteopathic physicians matched to family medicine than any other medical specialty in the recently completed American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Intern/Resident Registration Program, which pairs graduating osteopathic physicians with residency programs nationwide.

When the results were tabulated, family medicine filled 519 of 880 open positions in the 2014 osteopathic Match.

The good news continued in March, when results of the 2014 National Resident Matching Program, commonly known as the Match, highlighted the same sort of positive trend for allopathic family medicine programs. For the fifth straight year, the number of medical students choosing family medicine ticked higher than the previous year.

Specifically, 3,000 students, including both U.S. medical school graduates and international medical graduates, chose family medicine; that figure represents a 2 percent increase (62 more positions filled) compared with the 2,938 family medicine spots filled in 2013. Moreover, of this year's total, 1,416 U.S. seniors matched to family medicine; that's 42 more than in 2013, or a 3 percent increase.

Finally, a total of 70 more family medicine residency positions were offered in 2014 compared with 2013 (3,132 versus 3,062), yet the higher number of students matching into the specialty maintained the same fill rate of 96 percent.

Those numbers are especially encouraging given the ongoing need to feed the primary care workforce pipeline. Nowhere is this need felt more keenly than in the nation's more remote communities, where tens of millions of Americans rely on rural health professionals for their care.

In January, a Capitol Hill forum on rural health care highlighted the shortages of primary care physicians and other health professionals in rural areas for policymakers and other interested parties. Panelists who spoke during the event, which was sponsored by the Robert Graham Center on Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, pointed to the success of the Rural Training Track Program and stressed the need for continued support of this program.

According to panelist Amy Elizando, M.P.H., vice president of program services for the National Rural Health Association in Washington, 62 million Americans rely on rural health care professionals. Another panelist, former AAFP President Ted Epperly, M.D., of Boise, Idaho, pointed to a number of strategies needed to grow the U.S. rural physician workforce, including a focus on the kindergarten-to-12th-grade pipeline. Students who would make good primary care physicians need to be identified and encouraged early, particularly those in rural areas. In addition, students need shadowing and mentoring opportunities, loan repayment programs, and recruitment efforts that are aimed at retaining them in primary care, said Epperly.

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