2004 Distinguished Alumnus Award Recipients

Mims C. Aultman, M.D.
Dr. Aultman, a member of the MCG class of 1953, was honored for loyalty to the university by receiving the 2004 Alumni Association of the School of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award for Loyalty. He completed residency training in internal medicine at both MCG and University Hospital. In 1982, Dr. Aultman retired from the U.S. Army where he was an internal medicine physician. In 1984, he returned to Washington, D.C., and served as director of Health Care Services at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home until 1993. Dr. Aultman is a lifetime member of the Alumni Association of the School of Medicine.

 

 

 

Paul E. Stanton, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Stanton, is an Atlanta, Ga., native who received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Emory University in 1965 and his doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1969. From 1969-75, he was involved with residency training in general and vascular surgery. From 1975-85, he practiced and taught general and vascular surgery at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta.

In 1985, he and his wife, Nancy, and their children, Eric, Ryan, and Shelley, moved to Johnson City, where Dr. Stanton assumed the position of Chief of the Division of Peripheral Vascular Surgery at the East Tennessee State University College of Medicine. He was appointed Chairman of the Department of Surgery in 1986, and in 1988 became the Interim Dean of the College of Medicine and the Vice President for the Division of Health Sciences at ETSU. In 1989, he was appointed to the permanent position of Dean of Medicine/Vice President for Health Affairs. In January 1997, he became the eighth President of East Tennessee State University

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