Dr. Emanuel Suter, a founding leader of the University of Florida College of Medicine, has died at age 95. <\/p>\n
A pioneer in medical education at the University of Florida, Dr. Emanuel Suter, died at the age of 95 on Jan. 8 in Charlottesville, Va., where he had lived in retirement. <\/p>\n
Suter was the first chair of the microbiology department at UF and became the UF College of Medicine's second dean in 1965. <\/p>\n
He was best known for developing a medical curriculum that introduced clinical practice with basic science education and became a model for medical schools across the nation, said Dr. Parker Small, professor emeritus at the College of Medicine. <\/p>\n
Since then virtually all medical schools have recognized the need to integrate basic science with clinical medicine, Small said. <\/p>\n
Small, who is also a microbiologist, worked with Suter and succeeded him as chair of the microbiology department in 1966. <\/p>\n
He was the best boss I ever had -- an unbelievable human being, Small said, describing Suter as rigorously honest, selfless. <\/p>\n
He never would take credit for anything. He would work hard on getting something done, getting it to work, and then make sure that someone else got the credit. Small said. <\/p>\n
'He created a Camelot where people worked together, Small continued. It was an environment where all chairman had as goal the betterment of medicine. <\/p>\n
Suter was born in Basel, Switzerland, and came to the U.S. in 1949 to pursue research on tuberculosis at the Rockefeller Institute, according to a UF media release. He then established an experimental education program at Harvard University that caught the attention of the UF faculty that recruited Suter. <\/p>\n
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