Hartman / Hausner / Hearn / Hebert / Henkes / Hershberger / Hill / Homer / Hunter

Henry C. Hartman, MD (1935)

Background
Henry Charles Hartman (sometimes spelled “Hartmann”)was born in 1879 in Arneckeville, Texas to August C. Hartman and Josephine Hares Hartman, who were early pioneers of DeWitt County.  He had two siblings, August Hartman and Josephine Hares. Dr. Hartman married Nina Darty, a registered nurse, on December 24, 1910 in San Antonio.

Dr. Hartman died on October 1, 1963 in San Antonio from complications due to heart disease and Parkinson’s.

Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Hartman received his MD degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1907 and did an internship at John Sealy Hospital.

In 1910, Dr. Hartman became the first full-time pathologist at Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas.  During this time, he also served as assistant state health officer for Texas. He left Scott and White in 1913 to succeed Dr. James J. Terrill as professor of pathology at The University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. He became dean of the medical school in 1926. Dr. Hartman also spent some time serving in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps during World War I.

In 1928, Dr. Hartman left Galveston to practice in San Antonio. He opened a laboratory at the M&S Hospital, now the Baptist Medical Center, and remained there until he retired.

Dr. Hartman was an honorary member of the Bexar County Medical Society and of the Texas Medical Association. He was also a member of the American Medical Association.

Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Hartman served as president of the TSP in 1935. He was a charter member of the TSP and was at the meeting at the Oriental Hotel on May 9, 1921 during the State Medical Association of Texas to establish the State Pathological Society of Texas. He was also present at the meeting at St. Anthony’s Hotel in San Antonio to re-establish the State Pathological Society after it was dis-banned.

Among his many activities with the TSP, Dr. Hartman helped develop the coursework to train pathologists during a time when the TSP was working to standardize pathology training and laboratories throughout the state.

Notable Publication(s)
Hartman, H., & Kindley, G. C. (1914). A Case of Pseudomyxomatous Cyst of the Appendix. Journal of the American Medical Association, 62(23), 1795-1795.
Bodansky, M., & Hartman, H. C. (1923). The production of experimental anemia with symmetrical di-isopropyl-hydrazine hydrochloride and related compounds. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 20(5), 297-298.

Richard J. Hausner, MD (1993)

Yvonne Hearn, MD (2005)

Background
Dr. Yvonne Hearn was born in Dallas, Texas on December 24, 1958. Her father was a professional gunsmith and her mother was a nurse. She married Patrick Hearn in 1981, and they have one daughter, Hillary, who is a marine biologist and Peace Corp volunteer.

Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Hearn completed her undergraduate work at The University of Texas in Arlington in 1982, and received her MD degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1986. Dr. Hearn did her residency in pathology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School/Parkland Health Hospital System in anatomic and clinical pathology under Dr. Vernie Stembridge. Then, in 1990, she did a surgical pathology fellowship at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston under Dr. Elio Silva.

After her fellowship at M.D. Anderson, Dr. Hearn became board certified in clinical pathology. At that time, she opened a community practice in Denton, Texas that ran for four years. She then moved to Wichita Falls to practice at North Texas Medical Laboratory.

In 2008, Dr. Hearn began working for Pathology Associates of North Texas where she is practicing today. She also serves the United Regional Health Care System. She was chairman of the URHCS Credentials Committee from October 2005 until she became president of the medical staff in 2008. She is the first president of the medical staff to serve a two-year term.

Dr. Hearn has served on several committees and professional organizations. In 2003 she was nominated to participate as a member of the College of American Pathologists Public & Patient Relations Committees. She has been a Texas delegate for the College of American Pathologists House of Delegates and a CAP spokesperson. She is a member of the CAP Council of Membership and Professional Affairs and a member of the CAP Foundation Fund Raising Committee. She is also a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathology, the American Medical Society, Texas Independent Physicians, Texas Medical Association, Texas Medical Foundation, Wichita County Medical Society, and Wichita County Medical Alliance.

On the global front, Dr. Hearn has also had a long-time interest in medical missions, participating in some overseas work in the past. She plans to do mission work in surgical pathology.

Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Hearn served as president of the TSP in 2005, which was a Texas legislative year. During her time as president, she initiated the formation of the “Consultants to Legislative Council” to promote involvement of some of the long-time members of the TSP with the legislative council. Prior to Dr. Hearn’s presidency, the legislative council had a limited number of seats, which precluded some of the seasoned members whose experience would be valuable to the council.

Prior to serving as president, Dr. Hearn became the first chair of the Young Pathologists Section of the TSP in 1998. The Young Pathologists Program is a program to help facilitate the growth and development of up-and-coming pathologists, and continues to thrive.

Notable Publication(s)
Hearn, YR & Gander, RM. (1991). Achromobacter xylosoxidans: An unusual neonatal pathogen.  Am J Clin Pathol, 96, 211-214.
Hearn YR (1997). Transfusion Guidelines: A Review of the Literature. RBC and Platelet Transfusions. Wichita Falls Medicine, 12(2), 15-19.
Hearn YR (1997). Transfusion Guidelines: A Review of the Literature, Part II. Wichita Falls Medicine, 12(3), 36-39.

Michelle M. Hebert, MD (2006)

Background
Dr. Michelle Herbert was born in Port Arthur, Texas on January 7, 1964, and was the first person in her family to become a doctor.

Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Hebert received her BS degree from Texas A&M University in 1986 and obtained her MD degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio in 1990. She completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology in 1995 at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and then did a fellowship in hematopathology under the direction of Dr. Robert McKenna also at UT Southwestern. She was board certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in 1995 and 1996 in anatomic and clinical pathology with an added qualification in hematopathology.

Dr. Hebert has served as clinical assistant professor of pathology in the Department of Pathology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and as the Medical Director of the Laboratory at Huntsville Memorial Hospital in Huntsville, Texas.
Among the committees on which she has served, Dr. Hebert was president of the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists and of the Walker-Madison-Trinity County Medical Society. She is a member of the College of American Pathologists Member Department Committee and a delegate to the CAP House of Delegates.

Dr. Herbert currently works locum tenens.          

Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Herbert served as president of the TSP in 2006, and has also served as vice president, secretary, and director-at-large. She has worked on various committees for the TSP, including the Education Council and the Education Foundation Board. She currently works with the Educational Foundation.

Dr. Hebert received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award in 2016 for her work in pathology.

Notable Publication(s)
Hebert, M. M., Yu, C., Towbin, J. A., & Rogers, B. B. (1995). Fatal Epstein-Barr virus myocarditis in a child with repetitive myocarditis. Fetal & Pediatric Pathology, 15(5), 805-812.
Hebert, M. M. (2008), Texas Society of Pathologists 86th Annual Meeting. Arch Pathol Lab Med (132).

David N. Henkes, MD (1996)

Background
Dr. David Norman Henkes was born on June 4, 1953 in San Antonio, Texas. His father worked as a Southern Pacific railroad switchman and his mother was a housewife. He also had an older sister. Dr. Henkes graduated from Alamo Heights High School and went on to St. Mary’s University. He married Danielle Hilliard, a writer and public relations professional, in San Antonio in 1993. The Henkes have a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Nichole.

Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Henkes attended San Antonio College and worked nights as an autopsy assistant in the morgue at Methodist Hospital.  By 1975, he graduated summa cum laude from St. Mary’s University with a BA degree in biology and minor in chemistry. He received his MD degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, graduating with high honors and in the top ten of his medical class of 1979.

From 1982 to 1983, Dr. Henkes did his residency at The University of Texas at San Antonio under Dr. Ibriham Ramsey, where he studied fine needle aspiration biopsy, a new noninvasive procedure at the time. He eventually became a leading expert in this technique. While there, he served as chief pathology resident.

Upon completion of his residency, Dr. Henkes became associate pathologist and co-director of a medical laboratory in Wichita Falls where he became active in the TSP and the Texas Medical Association. While in Wichita Falls, Dr. Henkes also served as assistant pathologist at Bethania Regional Health Care Center and as consulting pathologist for hospitals in surrounding towns.

In 1986, Dr. Henkes returned to San Antonio and became a partner with the Pathology Associates of San Antonio, headed by Dr. Norman Jacob. From 1986 to 1988, he served as the group’s laboratory director for the medical center’s new Saint Rose Catholic Hospital. In 1989 after
Dr. Jacob retired, Dr. Henkes became managing partner for Pathology Associates of San Antonio, South Texas Pathology Associates, and director of Pathology and Laboratory Services for Santa Rosa Health Care Corporation. He also served as the director of the Santa Rosa
Reference Laboratories.

Dr. Henkes was chief of staff at Rosa Northwest Hospital from 1996 to 1997, chairman of the Department of Pathology from 1986 to 1993, and chairman of the Santa Rosa Hospital Pathology Department from 1990 to 1995.

Among his appointments, Dr. Henkes served as president of the John R. Rainey Jr., MD Educational Foundation. He was a delegate to the Advisory Council of the American Society of Clinical Pathology and the House of the College of American Pathologists. He served on the Strategic Planning Committee, as an alternative contact for the Washington Key Contact Program, and as Laboratory Accreditation Inspector.

From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Henkes spearheaded the Bexar County Medical Society’s Legislative Subcommittee on Medicaid and served as its chair in 1998. He also worked on the task force on AIDS in San Antonio and as a consultant to the Texas Commission for Workman’s Compensation. Dr. Henkes served on both the Texas Medical Association Socioeconomic Council and TexPAC Board of Directors as an alternative delegate and as a delegate. In 1995 Dr. Henkes was appointed by Texas Governor Ann Richards to serve a four-year term on the Texas State Commission for Radiation Safety.

Dr. Henkes currently practices in San Antonio and serves the surrounding areas. He has served on several committees for Health and Human Services and has been active with the Texas Medical Association

Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Henkes served as president of the TSP during its diamond jubilee year, 1996. He also served on the Legislative Council and was a district delegate from 1988 to 1994.

Notable Publication(s)
Henkes, D. N., Patel, S. N., Rosenkranz, L. A., & Escobedo, J. L. (2013). The utility of UroVysion fluorescence in situ hybridization in pancreatic fine-needle aspiration samples directed and obtained by endoscopic ultrasonography. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 137(1), 64-71.
Henkes, D. N., & Stein, N. (1987). Fine‐needle aspiration cytology of prostatic embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma: A case report. Diagnostic cytopathology, 3(2), 163-165.

Lloyd R. Hershberger, MD (1957)

Background
Dr. Lloyd R. “Hershey” Hershberger was born on July 20, 1911 in Pigeon, Michigan while his parents, who were Iowa homesteaders, took temporary residence there. He was raised in the Amish Mennonite community of Kalona, Iowa in a family of seven children. His elementary education was in a one-room school, Snake Hollow School. He then went to Kalona High School.

Dr. Hershberger married Harriett Williams Cowell in July, 1944. They had one son, Chris Hershberger and one stepson, Richard Cowell. Harriett died in 1970, and Dr. Hershberger married Gayle Robertson in May, 1972. They had two stepdaughters, Margo Templeton and Jane Blanch.

Dr. Hershberger died on December 4, 2010 in San Angelo, Texas at the age of ninety-nine.

Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Hershberger obtained his MD degree from The University of Iowa Medical School in 1938. From 1939 through 1941, Dr. Hershberger participated in several internships and residencies, including an internship in Chicago, Illinois, the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Seattle, Washington, and the U.S.P.H.S Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri.

From 1943 to 1946, Dr. Hershberger worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland under Dr. R.D. Lillie. Dr. Hershberger studied malaria and other infectious diseases and passed his board exams in clinical and anatomical pathology in 1946.
Dr. Hershberger became interested in pathology services related to primary care. He moved his family to San Angelo, Texas and became the pathologist at Shannon Memorial Hospital. He was one of the only pathologists in West Texas, the Hill Country, and areas east of Fort Worth. He served a 200-mile radius, including the tuberculosis sanitarium in Carlsbad, and hospitals in Brady, Sterling City, Ozona, Alpine and Abilene.

In 1947, Dr. Hershberger started the first Blood Bank of San Angelo and was instrumental in managing the polio epidemic that began in 1949. When the Salk vaccine became available, Dr. Hershberger, as president of the local medical society, worked with the school board in Tom Green County and the surrounding areas to provide the vaccine at no cost. He also established a lab technician’s school at Shannon Hospital that worked with a cooperative program with Angelo State University.

Among the organizations and committees of which Dr. Hershberger has served, he was part of an informal group known as the West Texas Society of Pathologists, which met from 1960 until the mid-1970s. He has also served as president of the Tom Green County Medical Society.
He was an active member of the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, the Texas Association of Cytology, and the Texas Association of Physicians in Nuclear Medicine. In 1961 he was appointed by Governor Price Daniel to the Radiation Advisory Board of the Texas Department of Health.

Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Hershberger served an active role in the TSP, particularly when Medicare was first established. He worked with the Constitution and Bylaws Committee to establish appropriate fees, interstate laboratories, and regulation by federal departments and agencies. He also advocated for community pathologists to provide diagnostic services in the area of cytology.

Dr. Hershberger served as secretary-treasurer of the TSP from 1950 until 1955 and as president in 1957. From 1960 to 1965, he served as ASCP Councilor from Texas, and helped with the move of a central reference library from Chicago to Texas.

Dr. Hershberger received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award in 1986 for his years of service in the area of pathology.
Notable Publication(s)
Hershberger, L. R. (1951). Incidence of malignant tumors in the general practice of pathology in Texas. Tex State J Med, 47(5), 242-4.
Madding, G. F., Smith, W. L., & Hershberger, L. R. (1954). Hepatoportal arteriovenous fistula. Journal of the American Medical Association, 156(6), 593-596.

William T. Hill, MD (1968)

Background
Dr. William Thomas Hill was born on August 28, 1924 in Hampton, Arkansas to William E. and Ada P. Hill. He married Anna Cornell, a registered nurse who specialized in pediatric care, in 1949. They had three children, Nancy, William, Jr., and Robert.

Dr. Hill passed away on January 7, 2004.

Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Hill received his undergraduate degree from the University of Arkansas in Monticello. He obtained his MD degree from the University of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock in 1947. He then did an internship at Pearce County Hospital in Tacoma, Washington.

After getting married in 1949, Dr. Hill did a three-year pathology residency at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and then did an additional residency in pathology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1952 under the supervision of Dr. Lauren V. Ackerman.

From 1953 to 1955, Dr. Hill served in the military at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He worked as chief pathologist of the Fourth Army Area Medical Laboratory, where he was responsible for specimens submitted from army hospitals in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee. During this time he also served as a consulting pathologist at M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston.

In 1955 Dr. Hill left the army and did additional pathology training at Columbia University in New York City. In 1956, he moved to Flint, Michigan where he served as chief pathologist at McClaren General Hospital.

In 1959, Dr. Hill moved to Houston to become an associate pathologist at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. He also helped form the private pathology group, Lind, Hill, Webb and Associates.  He eventually left St. Luke’s to serve as director of pathology laboratories and chief of staff at Sam Houston Memorial Hospital and Rosewood Medical Center.

Dr. Hill was among the founding board members of the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center. He served as a diplomat for the American Board of Pathology and was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, and the American Association of Blood Banks. He was president of the Harris County Medical Society and the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists. Additionally, he was clinical assistant professor of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine. He also served as chairman of the Texas Medical Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs.

Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Hill served as the president of the TSP in 1968 and received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award in 1986. He worked to standardized organ transplantation procedures. He also guided studies in obstetrics.

Notable Publication(s)
Hill, W. T., & Reilly, W. A. (1951). Endocardial fibroelastosis. AMA American journal of diseases of children, 82(5), 579-586.                                                    
Stout, A. P., & Hill, W. T. (1958). Leiomyosarcoma of the superficial soft tissues. Cancer, 11(4), 844-854.

Ladon W. Homer, MD (1992)

Dr. Ladon Winston Homer was born in Mira, Louisiana in 1935 to Pauline and Cecil Homer. He attended grade school in Shreveport during the war years but moved several times after grade school because his father was on active military duty. Dr. Homer married his high school sweetheart, Mary Ann Hoehn, in Sanger, Texas in 1956. They had two sons, Kevin Scott and Gregory Douglas, both of whom became physicians, and one daughter, Jana Lynn.

Dr. Homer completed his bachelor’s degree from Southern College in 1957 and his master’s degree from Potomac University in 1958. After spending a couple of years as a teacher, he entered Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and graduated with his MD degree in 1965. Dr. Homer did his internship and residency at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock and later joined the staff at the university while also working in private practice.In 1971, Dr. Homer left the University of Arkansas to enter private practice in pathology at Madison Hospital in Madison, Tennessee, near Nashville. He served as chairman of the pathology department and was instrumental in advancing the school of medical technology by affiliating with Vanderbilt University School of Allied Health Sciences. Dr. Homer served as president of the medical staff and on the board of trustees at Madison Hospital. He was also a lecturer at Vanderbilt.

In 1978, Dr. Homer and his family moved to Texas where he was named chairman of the pathology department at Huguley Memorial Medical Center, a new hospital in south Fort Worth where Dr. Homer would spend the rest of his professional career. He served as president of the hospital medical staff and received the hospital’s physician of the year award in 1995.

Dr. Homer was active with the Texas Medical Association for many years, serving as an alternate delegate from Tarrant County in 1980, and on the TMA Council on Constitution By-Laws. He was a delegate to the American Medical Association, served as president of the Tarrant County Medical Society, and was a member of the Adventist Health System board. He was a fellow of the College of American Pathologists and of the American Society of Clinical Pathology.
In 1994, Dr. Homer organized the Huguley Providers Alliance, a multi-specialty physician organization that he formed in response to the ramification of managed care on private practice of medicine.

Texas Society of Pathologists
Dr. Homer served as president of the TSP in 1992 and received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award in 2001.

Notable Publication(s)
Homer, L. W., White, H. J., & Read, R. C. (1968). Neoplastic transformation of v. Meyenburg complexes of the liver. The Journal of pathology and bacteriology, 96(2), 499-502.

Robert L. Hunter, Jr., MD, PhD (2008)

Background
Dr. Robert Lee Hunter, Jr. was born on January 27, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois to Robert Lee Hunter, Sr. and Elizabeth Corey. Dr. Hunter grew up on the south side of Chicago near The University of Chicago and spent many weekends and summers working at his family’s dairy farm in northern Illinois.

Dr. Hunter attended grammar and high school in the Chicago public school system. After graduation he worked for eight months in the boiler room of the Palmer House Hotel, and then entered Harvard College, intending to major in mathematics. He switched majors several times before landing on biomedical sciences.

Dr. Hunter married Becky Hunter while he was in medical school. They have two sons, Robert and David, and a daughter, Alice.

Medical Education & Practice
Dr. Hunter did his master’s work on antigen localization in follicle dendritic cells within splenic germinal centers. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago in 1965 and a PhD degree in anatomic and clinical pathology in 1969. Dr. Hunter did his internal medicine internship at Boston City Hospital. From 1967 to 1969, he worked at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and then completed his pathology residency at the University of Chicago, serving as chief resident in 1970.

From 1972 until 1980, Dr. Hunter served as assistant and then associate professor at the University of Chicago’s Department of Pathology. In 1980, Dr. Hunter became a professor at Emory University in Atlanta and was appointed director of Emory’s PhD program in experimental biology. He also served as a guest scientist for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

In 1985, Dr. Hunter co-founded CytRx Corporation to develop medical applications of synthetic polymers. His work with CytRx was recognized in 1994 when the Robert L. Hunter Pharmaceutical Development Center in Norcross, Georgia, was named in his honor.
Dr. Hunter was recruited to The University of Texas Medical School in Houston in 1997, and was appointed chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine. He was instrumental in overseeing the merger between Hermann Hospital and the Memorial Hospital systems, forming the Memorial-Hermann System. In 2003, Dr. Hunter co-founded SynthRx in Bellaire, Texas.

Among his activities in professional organizations, Dr. Hunter was president of the Association of Clinical Scientists in 1987 and continues to work with them in several capacities. He is a member of the College of American Pathologists and the American Society of Clinical Pathology. In 2003, he was awarded the Philip Levine Award for Outstanding Research by the ASCP.

Dr. Hunter is currently a distinguished professor and chairman at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and works as a private consultant.

Texas Society of Pathologists
In 2007, Dr. Hunter received The University of Texas Medical Branch Paul Brindley Distinctive Visiting Professorship for his work in tuberculosis. He served as president of the TSP the following year and received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award in 2010.

Notable Publication(s)
Dr. Hunter has served on the editorial board for the Archives of Pathology, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, the Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, and Tuberculosis Research and Treatment. He has published more than 150 research papers and is named as inventor on more than 30 patents.
Indrigo, J., Hunter, R. L., & Actor, J. K. (2003). Cord factor trehalose 6, 6′-dimycolate (TDM) mediates trafficking events during mycobacterial infection of murine macrophages. Microbiology, 149(8), 2049-2059.
Hunter, R. L., Olsen, M. R., Jagannath, C., & Actor, J. K. (2006). Multiple roles of cord factor in the pathogenesis of primary, secondary, and cavitary tuberculosis, including a revised description of the pathology of secondary disease. Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science, 36(4), 371-386.
Hunter, R. L., Jagannath, C., & Actor, J. K. (2007). Pathology of postprimary tuberculosis in humans and mice: contradiction of long-held beliefs. Tuberculosis, 87(4), 267-278.