The Asheville School Board of Trustees recently honored Dr. Hugh C. Hemmings, Jr 1974 with the school's Award of Merit – the highest honor the school bestows. Hemmings was presented the Award of Merit on Friday night of Alumni Weekend, April 25, 2014.
The Board was honored to give
this award to Dr. Hemmings in recognition of a distinguished career in
research, medicine, and education.
After Asheville School, Hemmings
earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Yale College, a Ph.D. in pharmacology from
Yale University, and an M.D. from Yale Medical School. He completed
postdoctoral work at The Rockefeller University, a residency in anesthesia at
the Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia at
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he has been
a faculty member since 1991.
Dr. Hemmings is an expert in the
synaptic effects of general anesthetics and mechanisms of neuronal signal
transduction. He has authored more than 100 publications, including a textbook
on basic anesthesiology. He is active in several national and international
societies for anesthesiology and neuroscience and serves as an Editor for the
journals Anesthesiology and the British Journal of Anesthesia. In 2012, the
Royal College of Anaesthetists elected him as a Fellow. In 2013, Dr. Hemmings
was appointed Chairman and Anesthesiologist-in-Chief of the Department of
Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
The Award of Merit, first awarded
in 1966, was established to honor friends of Asheville School and of education
in the Southeast for their lifetime accomplishments. Recent winners have
included: several former Asheville School teachers – Ron Bromley, Doc Embler,
Chuck Carter, Chase Ambler '50, Irv Ornduff, Sly and Donna Lewis; alumni Steve
Bryant '41 (attorney and philanthropist), Zoltan Soos '58 (Chemistry professor
at Princeton), Dr. Ben V. Branscomb 1941 (doctor of pulmonary medicine); and
parents of alumni Dr. John Lawrence and Major General John Grinalds.
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