Floor Speech By
Congressman Bill Young |
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DR. ROBERT GOOD HONORED AS THE MOST PROLIFIC SCIENTIFIC AUTHOR OF OUR TIME --
HON. C.W. BILL YOUNG (Extension of Remarks - May 19, 1994)
- Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, many of our Nation's and our world's most respected scientists and medical researchers will gather this weekend in St. Petersburg, FL, to honor their colleague, Dr. Robert A. Good on the 50th anniversary of the publication of this legendary scholar's first scientific paper.
- It is an honor for me to not only represent Dr. Good, a distinguished research professor and head of allergy and clinical immunology at the University of South Florida and All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, but to call him my friend. He is a friend who has helped educate me on the miraculous breakthroughs that have taken place in the biomedical field during his brilliant professional career. He is also a man who has touched the lives of so many colleagues, students, and patients.
- Families throughout the world have reaped the benefits of his years of work. Thousands are alive today because of his research and clinical findings.
- This weekend's major scientific conference, entitled `Perspectives in Immunology and Medicine 1944-1994,' is a symposium which is the latest in honors this remarkable man has received. He is the recipient of the prestigious Lasker Award, as well as 80 other scientific awards and honorary degrees. He is also the past president of both the American Association of Immunologists and the American Association of Pathologists.
- As the most distinguished academic pediatrician of the past decade, perhaps the greatest living recognition of his work is the long list of physicians and other researchers, numbering more than 300, who have studied and trained under Dr. Good and now hold major positions worldwide.
- His words and contributions to active laboratory and clinical research and training live on in his more than 40 books and 1,800 scientific published articles.
- Though he has had an impact on so many lives, I personally will be forever in Bob Good's debt for his pioneering work in the field of bone marrow transplantation. Thirty years ago he was featured on the cover of Time magazine for performing the first bone marrow transplant. Today, bone marrow transplants occur daily throughout the world and give life to men, women, and children. They are cured of leukemia, cancers, immuno-deficiencies, and countless other blood disorders for which there is no other cure.
- Through some divine intervention in 1986, Bob Good and I came together at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg with the same goal. That goal was to establish a national registry of volunteers willing to donate their bone marrow to another person in need of life. With his enlightenment on the science of bone marrow transplantation, I learned of the need to establish such a registry to give hope to the families of patients dying from leukemia or countless other disorders because they lacked a matched bone marrow donor. With the support of my colleagues in Congress, we established the National Marrow Donor Program in 1987 and Bob Good was a member of its first board of directors.
- Mr. Speaker, my best wishes go out today to Dr. Good and his wife Dr. Noorbibi Day, a world renowned medical researcher in her own right, as they are honored this weekend for their individual and collective achievements in the fields of science and medical research. Dr. Good is a national and international treasure whose work spans generations of medical breakthroughs. The people of St. Petersburg are proud that he has chosen our area to be his home and I will be forever grateful to call him my teacher and friend.
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