Posted on June 27, 2002 at 4:55 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) department of radiology endowed chair has been named for the current and a former chairman in recent action by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees.

The chair, created in 1987, will honor Drs. David M. Witten and Robert J. Stanley and be known as the Witten-Stanley Endowed Chair of Radiology.

Dr. Witten served as professor and chair of the UAB department of radiology beginning in 1971. He also served as president of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation and senior scientist at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.

He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and received his medical degree from that university’s school of medicine. He was awarded the master of science in radiology degree from the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He held positions at the University of Minnesota and the University of Washington before joining the University of Missouri as professor and chair of its radiology department.

Stanley is in his 20th year as Witten’s successor. He received an undergraduate degree from St. Peter’s College, his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine, and a master of science degree in health administration from UAB. Prior to joining UAB’s faculty, he was director and professor of the Washington University School of Medicine’s abdominal radiology section at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.

He has held office in numerous academic societies, most recently as president of the American Roentgen Ray Society. In addition, he is the recipient of a fellowship from the American College of Radiology and an honorary fellowship from the Royal Australasian of Radiologists.