In Memoriam: David Stone, MD
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
FACULTY MILESTONES: In Memoriam — David Stone, MD
School of Medicine Interim Dean Randolph Canterbury announced last February the death of long-time gastroenterology faculty member David Stone. He wrote: “Dr. Stone, who helped establish the Gastroenterology Division in our Department of Medicine … was a beloved colleague, mentor, and friend to many.”
Here is an edited portion of Dr. Stone’s obituary, published in The Daily Progress on Jan. 28, 2015.
David Stone attended Vanderbilt University as an undergraduate and earned his MD at the University of Virginia. After residency and a fellowship in New York and St. Louis, respectively, he joined the UVA Department of Internal Medicine faculty in 1963. He, along with Dr. Jim Respess and Dr. Ed Wilson, established the Department of Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology. Dr. Stone was a pioneer in the field and one of the first endoscopists in the commonwealth of Virginia. He was the consummate clinician, possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of medicine and renowned for his ability to care for the whole patient. He had a very busy clinical gastroenterology and endoscopy practice, and was beloved by his patients.
Dr. Stone served as director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and was one of the founders of the GI nutrition service. He was a great scholar, eminent teacher and mentor who taught by example and enormously influenced many medical students and GI fellows. In 1978, he was awarded the Robley Dunglison Award, presented by the graduating medical school class to “a member of the faculty in recognition of outstanding teaching efforts and personal contributions toward arousing interests and inspiring the endeavors of students.” The David D. Stone Professorship in Internal Medicine was endowed in 1985 in honor of his contributions, and supports the academic activities of an eminent scholar in gastroenterology. The David D. Stone Gastroenterology Divisional Library was named in his honor in 1997, the year he retired from practice, when the division moved to its current location in the West Complex.