HISTORY

Division History

History of GI/Hepatology at UIC

  • Prior : Illinois Research and Education
  • 1971 Named University of Illinois Hospital, Don Wilson appointed first Director of GI with 3 part time faculty member. The section chief, Reuven Levitan, was based at the VA. There were 2 trainees.
  • 1972 first external grant was received by Don Wilson.
  • Section grew to six fellows and 3 new faculty; Drs. Stephen Winter, Thomas J. Layden and Juan Engel.

Previous Chiefs

Don Wilson, MD, First Professor, 1973

Thomas J. Layden, MD 1984-2001

Gail Hecht, MD 2001 – 2012

Russell D. Brown, MD and Allan G. Halline, MD; Co-chiefs 2012

Inception of Division

1971 Named University of Illinois Hospital, Don Wilson appointed first Director of GI with 3 part time faculty member,. The section chief, Reuven Levitan, was based at the VA. There were 2 trainees and no research funding.

INSTRUCTIONS: In order to add a sidebar anchor:

  1. Duplicate the existing item, listed as a 1/6 text field. (Or create a 1/6 column and add a text field, modify the class so it’s exactly “additionalAnchor”).
  2. Modify the text field inside the 1/6 column. Inside there, modify the HYPERLINK so that it would go to a corresponding section with a “#” in front of it. (Example, we have a “chief” section on the page, then it would make sense to have the hyperlink go to “#chief”)
  3. Then change the hyperlink TEXT to a appropriate label.
  4. IMPORTANT: If not done already, go into that CONTAINER that corresponds to your anchor (i.e. Meet The Chiefs), and add an ID matching the anchor’s HYPERLINK WITHOUT the “#”, i.e. “chief”.
  5. (If using side bar widget box, then there’s a saved copy of a widget box COLUMN, grab it in the column library, it should 1/6 of a length of a column.)

NOTE: Order added to the sidebar is from last to first.