Department of Internal Medicine William Lawton Earns Humanism Award 4/30/2004 A faculty member in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has been honored for his commitment to the highest standards of compassion and sensitivity in interacting with patients and the medical community. William Lawton, M.D., UI associate professor of internal medicine, received the college's faculty Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. Lawton will receive his honor and $1,000 award at the college's commencement day luncheon on May 14. Several medical schools in the United States participate in the award program, which is sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to promote the compassionate and humanistic care of patients as a key component of medical education. Lawton has been a UI faculty member since 1974 in the Division of Nephrology within the Department of Internal Medicine. From 1987 to 2003, he was medical director of the Renal Dialysis Treatment Center at UI Hospitals and Clinics and the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. At these sites, as well as four satellite dialysis units in eastern Iowa and Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Lawton is known for his dedicated care to inpatients and outpatients with kidney diseases, hypertension (high blood pressure) and general medicine problems. He also devotes himself to teaching medical students, residents and fellows. As an investigator, Lawton focuses on clinical research in hypertension. Lawton earned his medical degree from Northwestern University and completed a residency in internal medicine in 1970 at Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center and a fellowship in renal-hypertension in 1972 at the UI. |