presented to

G. Gordon Hadley, M.D.

This twenty sixth day of June, in the year two thousand two

Dr. G. Gordon Hadley has lived an exemplary life in mission to others. It is the Medical Society’s privilege to honor him as a physician leader, a physician educator, and a tireless worker for the improvement of health conditions in disadvantaged countries.

As a faculty member of Loma Linda University and young researcher, he authored the paper describing the use of EDTA, an anticoagulant that would preserve the appearance of blood cells. He taught pathology to several generations of medical students at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He has served as Associate Dean and Dean of the Loma Linda University School of Medicine (1977-1986), and he is presently Dean Emeritus.

The extent of his dedication to his profession and his contributions to medicine are evident by his involvement in worldwide medical outreach. He has taught at medical schools in India and Afghanistan; in the latter capacity he has had the privilege of instructing the majority of the present faculty members at Kabul University School of Medicine.

For a period of five years, Dr. Hadley was in charge of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists’ world wide medical work, which encompasses some 75,000 employees and in excess of 600 hospitals, clinics and other medical installations, many in developing countries. More recently he was a chief executive officer of the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, China, a role he completed in May of 2001, turning the institution over to a cadre of trained Chinese physicians and educators. He continues to advise the program in Hangzhou and is spending much of the spring and summer of 2002 in Afghanistan helping that war ravaged country rebuild its medical educational system despite the very real potential for danger.

It is the San Bernardino County Medical Society’s honor to recognize G. Gordon Hadley, M.D., a member of our organization for 37 years, for his considerable contributions to the medical profession by proudly presenting to him the 2002 William L. Cover, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medicine.

Jay E. Shankar, M.D.
President