Herman Allen Godwin

Background

Godwin, Herman Allen was born on March 4, 1937 in Erwin, North Carolina, United States.

Education

AB, U. North Carolina, 1959; Doctor of Medicine, Bowman Gray School Medicine, 1963.

Career

Intern, Harvard Medical Superior vena cava syndrome-Boston City Hospital, 1963-1964; assistant resident, Harvard Medical Superior vena cava syndrome-Boston City Hospital, 1964-1965; senior resident, Harvard Medical Superior vena cava syndrome-Boston City Hospital, 1967-1968; clinical associate medical branch National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1965-1967; research fellow Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1968-1969; teaching fellow in medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1967-1969; instructor in medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1969-1970; assistant professor medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1970-1972; assistant director, Harvard Medical Services-Boston City Hospital, 1970-1971; associate professor medicine, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1972-1975; chief hematology section, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, 1972-1975; clinical associate professor medicine school medicine, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975-1980; clinical professor medicine, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1981; private practice, Charlotte Medical Clinic, 1975-1991. Coordinator introduction clinic course Boston City Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1969-1970, coordinator examination patient course, 1971-1972. Co-director Geneva A. Daland laboratory course clinical hematology Boston City Hospital, 1969-1971, chairman blood bank committee, 1971-1972.

Attending physician in hematology Veterans Administration Hospital., West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1970-1972. Associate visiting physician Harvard Medical Superior vena cava syndrome, Boston, 1971-1972. Consultant in hematology South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1971-1972.

Chairman research symposium department medicine trainees Baylor College.Medicine, 1972-1974, assistant chairman clinical science course committee, 1973-1974, chairman student affairs committee, 1973-1975, chairman introduction disease course, 1974-1975. Associate attending physician Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, 1972-1975, Charlotte Memorial Hospital, 1980-1991, vice chairman medicine, 1978-1980, department chairman medicine, 1980-1982, member Executive Committee visiting medical and dental staff, 1981-1982, 84-87, vice president, 1984-1985, president, 1986-1987. Member sickle cell and hemolytic disease cooperative study group National Institutes of Health, 1973.

Visiting professor Autonomous U., Guadalajara, Mexico, 1974, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas, 1974, Queen's U., Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1974. Member active staff Presbyterian Hospital, 1975-1991, chairman oncology committee, 1980-1985. Attending physician in medicine Veterans Administration Hospital.

Houston, 1972-1975; member high technical task force Southern Piedmont Health Systems Agency, 1980-1981, member acute hospital services task force, 1982. Liaison fellow commission cancer American College of Surgeons, 1981-1985, 92-. Leukemia Society visiting professor U. Florida, Jacksonville, 1983.

Member board advisors Charlotte Memorial Hospital and Medical Center, 1984-1987. Member of advisory county college nursing U. North Carolina, Charlotte, 1988-1992. Medical director cancer center Carolinas Medical Center, since 1990, senior attending physician, since 1991.

Affiliate medical staffoncology and internal medicine Watauga Medical Center, Boone, North Carolina, since 1993.

Achievements

• Herman Allen Godwin has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Morehead Scholarship Selection Committee, since 1981, chairman Mecklenburg I,1988-1993, member N.W. regional committee, 1993. Board directors CanCare, 1983-1985, North Carolina Division, American Cancer Society, 1985-1986. Board medical advisors Heineman Medical Research Center, since 1987.

Board visitors U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1988-1992, mem.adv. board executive seminar in the humanities and human values, since 1993. Active North Carolina Environmental Defense Fund, 1989. Board advisors Spirit Square, 1991-1992,member advocacy and outreach committee, since 1992, education committee, since 1992.

Member Carolinas Task Force on Health Care Policy, 1992-1993. Consultant Carolinas Poison Center, since 1992. Member citizens design review committee Cancer Survivors Plz., Charlotte, since 1993.

Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Board Internal Medicine (Board of Governors 1987-1991, board directors 1991-1993, member task force recertification, member clinical competence program recertification, member various committees and subcommittee), American Federation for Clinical Research, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Society Hematology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, North Carolina Medical Society (member committee cancer 1981-1987), Piedmont Oncology Association (Executive Committee 1976), Mecklenburg County Medical Society (secretary 1979-1980, member liaison committee 1986-1987), Society for Preservation Environmental Research in the Mountains, General Alumni Association U. North Carolina Chapel Hill (president Mecklenburg chapter 1979), Audubon Society, Thomas Wolfe Society, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Tower Club, Aesculapian Club, Chancellor's Club, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.