Timeline

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Timeline - 1974 - 1980

UT Medical Group, Inc.
Incorporated 1974, formerly Faculty Medical Practice Corp. & later, University Physicians Foundation.

1974

• Faculty Medical Practice Corp. (FMPC) is created.
• Dr. Shane Roy opens Pediatric Dialysis Unit.
• New Pain Center offers better solutions for chronic pain patients.
• First pediatric renal transplant in Memphis was led by Dr. Shane Roy at UT Bowld Hospital.
• Sheldon Korones, MD named Division Chief-Neonatology, enhancing newborn ICU.
• Dr. Jim Pate becomes Chair of Dept. of Surgery. Played a role in developing an artificial heart and prototypes for modern space suits. Helped to establish the world’s first tissue bank. Among the first surgeons to replace defective heart valves in children. Was first to implant a pacemaker during emergency care of a gun-shot victim.

1977

• Pediatrics launches home hemophilia therapy with Dr. J. Wilimas
• Center for Children in Crisis (Child Abuse) established by Dr. J. Hughes

1978

• OBGYN and Pediatrics lease two IBM System/34s, an evolutionary minicomputer in the System/32 family.

1979

• Information Systems consolidates programming & operations at 66 N. Pauline; combines IBM computers into a more powerful System/34. Radiology begins to use the Group’s shared billing system.

1980

• FMPC MDs operate the X-ray, lab, Clinical Research Center, and surgery units at Wm. F. Bowld Hospital; hospital is transferred from The MED to UT in exchange for UT Hospital (W. TN Chest Disease Hospital: Adams Pavilion)
• IS develops in-house general ledger, accounts payable, payroll software on an IBM Series/1 computer.