TRIBUTE VIDEO PARTICIPANTS
Thank you to these colleagues and friends for contributing to this tribute video
Max D. Cooper, M.D.
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
“Sandy had a valuable way of accessing new and old ideas to stay on the right track. As a team, we were finding out things you didn’t even think you would learn.”
James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D.
Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
Professor Pediatrics and Pathology,
Microbiology and Immunology
“He taught me the need for freedom in our work. That you can’t filter your own work with what other people think. He taught me humility, that you don’t need to be right all the time.”
William Doak, M.D.
Pediatric Specialist, Artist
"Sandy was a bigger-than-life friend who knew secrets and held them close. He was often the first to give a virtual standing ovation to others over their academic milestones.”
Deborah R. Doyle, M.D.
Long time friend, wife and loving companion
“Curiosity drove him. He was a researcher, clinician, teacher, historian, sailor, craftsman, naturalist, traveler, and in each case, he put his whole heart and soul into whatever he set his mind to.”
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
U.S. National Institutes of Health
“He was an amazing teacher. He took the time to explain the results of an experiment.”
Donna S. Hummell, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Rheumatology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
“There was an aerosol can on his desk labeled ‘BS Repellent.’ It informed his work style during all the 24 years I spent with him as his colleague and friend.”
Richard B. Johnston, Jr., M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine and
National Jewish Health
“There was 19th Century knowledge, but Max Cooper and Sandy developed a new science. Together they identified new diseases.”
Eveline Wu, M.D., MSCR
Chief, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology;
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC Health
“ I still practice techniques Sandy taught me.”
Troy Torgerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Experimental Immunology
Allen Institute for Immunology
“Sandy and Donna Hummell had a wonderful working relationship. They were ahead of their time. Studying under them was like solving puzzles.”
Will Sanders
Retired CEO, TBS
Childhood Friend and Yale roommate
“He was an avid fisherman and photographer, who especially enjoyed those times when his first wife Frances performed with show horses.”