Thier Honored at Yale- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
Thier Honored at Yale- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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June 2, 2000
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Thier Honored at Yale
Samuel O. Thier, MD, president and CEO, Partners HealthCare, received an honorary degree from Yale University during the school’s commencement exercises. Along with such dignitaries as the Right Reverend Desmond M. Tutu of South Africa, author William F. Buckley, Jr., playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, and refugee worker and child advocate Marie de la Soudiere, Thier was selected by the Yale Corporation to receive an honorary degree from the distinguished Ivy League university. “Throughout [Thier’s] career, he has focused on the advancement of medical science through innovation in policy, research, and administration,” read the Yale commencement program. “Dr. Thier has used his position to continue pressing for change and improvement in national health care policy, while working tirelessly to preserve medical services and research in a cost-conscious environment.” Thier attended Cornell University and completed medical school at the State University of New York at Syracuse in 1960. He was on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine and chaired the Department of Internal Medicine from 1975-85. He has also held academic appointments at the medical schools of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, George Washington, and Tufts. In addition, Thier served as the chief of medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and president of Brandeis University before joining Partners.