Perry edward Gross, MD: a conversation with the editor.

was born and raised in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pittsburgh in 1943 and 1944 before being drafted into the army. While in the army, Dr. Gross served in Japan the year after World War II ended. Thereafter, he returned to his studies for a year at the University of Pittsburgh before entering the Chicago Medical School in 1947. During his college years he played on the tennis team, sang in the Heinz Chapel Choir, and worked on the staff of the newspaper (The Pitt News) and the yearbook (The Owl). He was a member of the honorary biological science fraternity, Nu Sigma Sigma, and the honorary activities fraternity, the Druids. Dr. Gross did his internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Late in 1952 he came to Dallas, Texas, to start a family practice. During his 55 years of practice, Dr. Gross became a beloved physician. He joined the staffs of Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) and St. Paul Hospital at that time and became St. Paul’s chief of general practice in 1954. He retained that post through 1978. He also held significant roles at BUMC, where he was chief of the Department of Family Practice from 1974 through 2007 and at one time or another served on several medical committees, which included the executive committee and the credentials committee. In addition, he was chairman of the medical board. In 2005, the Perry E. Gross, MD, Chair of Family Medicine was established at BUMC in his honor. For the past 10 years, Dr. Gross was a clinical professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, and the Perry E. Gross, MD, Distinguished Chair of Family Practice was established there in 1998. Mr. and Mrs. Milledge A. Hart III honored Dr. Gross by establishing both of these endowed chairs. Perry edward Gross, MD: a conversation with the editor