Top Physician Creates Endowment for Future Scientists at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland alumnus and cardiologist Dr. Winston H. Gandy, Jr., ’82, recently created a $25,000 endowment in the College of Chemical and Life Sciences for the Maryland chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers to increase the number of African Americans in the chemical sciences. Co-director of the Cardiovascular Ultrasound Center at the Piedmont Heart Institute in Atlanta, Gandy is widely recognized as an expert in echocardiography, a procedure that takes “moving pictures” of the heart via sound waves. He is a founding board member of the American Cardiovascular Research Institute and is listed among “America’s Leading Doctors” in Black Enterprise magazine.
Tags: April 2009
