Healing
Hands and a Giving Heart
His healing touch eased the pain of thousands, and his generosity ensured a lasting legacy to humanity.
Dr. Joseph M. Still Jr., a 1965 graduate of the MCG School of Medicine, died Feb. 1 at age 67.
After earning his medical degree from MCG, Dr. Still completed a general surgery residency at MCG, a plastic surgery residency at Duke University Medical Center and a hand fellowship at the Kleinert Institute in Louisville, Ky. Dr. Still founded MCG’s Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 1972 and went on to found the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Augusta’s Doctors Hospital.
“He built the center up to a 58-bed unit serving more than 2,000 patients a year from throughout the Southeast,” said MCG President Daniel W. Rahn. “He was tireless in his efforts to help patients regain not only their health, but their quality of life. His contributions to health care—and to the well-being of countless individual patients—are enormous.”
In 2005, Dr. Still and fellow MCG alumnus Dr. Robert F.
Mullins pledged $600,000 over five years to MCG’s Joseph M. Still Jr. Endowed
Chair Fund in Plastic Surgery. The donation established a permanent fund to
support an established clinician, researcher and educator in plastic surgery.