Obituary for Dr. Doug McGill

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Douglas B. McGill, Mayo Clinic physician, educator, and administrator since 1958 and former President of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) died February 21, 2004, at age 74. Douglas McGill was born in New York, New York, and attended Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated from Yale University in pre-medicine and entered Tuft's University School of Medicine in 1951. He spent 2 years as an Army doctor in Chatellerault, France, and then moved to Rochester, Minnesota, as a Resident in Medicine in 1958. He joined the Gastroenterology Division at the Mayo Clinic in 1961 and served as Chair of this Division from 1974 to 1982. He followed Hugh Butt in helping develop a large, widely recognized, specialized Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division at the Mayo Clinic. He was instrumental in establishing endoscopy in the Division and was insightful in recognizing and reporting with his colleagues, Jurgen Ludwig, Thomas Viggiano, and Beverly Ott, the now widely recognized entity of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. During his tenure as President of the AGA from 1985 to 1987 and his time at the Mayo Clinic, he was recognized by his colleagues as bright, energetic, hard working, dedicated to improving patient care, willing to ask the difficult and challenging questions but also an inspiring educator, mentor, and great role model. He touched many with his enthusiasm for the practice of medicine and continued learning and will be greatly missed by all who knew him and worked with him.FIGURE Douglas B. McGill, Mayo Clinic physician, educator, and administrator since 1958 and former President of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) died February 21, 2004, at age 74. Douglas McGill was born in New York, New York, and attended Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated from Yale University in pre-medicine and entered Tuft's University School of Medicine in 1951. He spent 2 years as an Army doctor in Chatellerault, France, and then moved to Rochester, Minnesota, as a Resident in Medicine in 1958. He joined the Gastroenterology Division at the Mayo Clinic in 1961 and served as Chair of this Division from 1974 to 1982. He followed Hugh Butt in helping develop a large, widely recognized, specialized Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division at the Mayo Clinic. He was instrumental in establishing endoscopy in the Division and was insightful in recognizing and reporting with his colleagues, Jurgen Ludwig, Thomas Viggiano, and Beverly Ott, the now widely recognized entity of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. During his tenure as President of the AGA from 1985 to 1987 and his time at the Mayo Clinic, he was recognized by his colleagues as bright, energetic, hard working, dedicated to improving patient care, willing to ask the difficult and challenging questions but also an inspiring educator, mentor, and great role model. He touched many with his enthusiasm for the practice of medicine and continued learning and will be greatly missed by all who knew him and worked with him.FIGURE