[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 20, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E3]
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   HONORING WILLIAM K. SCHUBERT, M.D. AS A GREAT LIVING CINCINNATIAN

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                            HON. ROB PORTMAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 20, 2004

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize William K. 
Schubert, M.D., a distinguished leader, who will be honored on February 
26, 2004 by the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce as a Great 
Living Cincinnatian, one of our region's highest honors. The recipients 
of this prestigious honor are selected on the basis of special 
professional achievement; an awareness of the needs of others; civic 
service; leadership; and distinctive accomplishments.
  As president and CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical 
Center, Dr. Schubert steered it from a small facility with four 
operating rooms to one of the top five pediatric medical centers in the 
Nation and designation by the American College of Surgeons as a Level 1 
pediatric trauma center. During the 1970s, Dr. Schubert led a 
centralization of the region's pediatric care into a single medical 
center at Children's Hospital.
  A Cincinnati native, Dr. Schubert graduated from Walnut Hills High 
School, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati 
College of Medicine. Interested in science and influenced in childhood 
by the family's doctor, he made the decision in high school to later 
attend medical school. After completing an internship at Indiana 
University Medical Center, he returned to Cincinnati and served a 
residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in hematology at Cincinnati 
Children's Hospital Medical Center.
  In 1996, Dr. Schubert retired after 33 years of service to Children's 
Hospital, including 13 years as head of the medical center. Dr. 
Schubert has held many key leadership positions, such as founder and 
director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology; chief of staff, 
director of the pediatric residency training program; director of 
Children's Hospital Research Foundation; physician executive director; 
and chairman of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is 
a diplomat in the American Board of Pediatrics. Today, Dr. Schubert is 
professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and 
serves Children's Hospital Medical Center as a consultant.
  In our community, Dr. Schubert was instrumental in the successful 
effort to expand Cincinnati's property tax levy for indigent care to 
include children. He has been involved in the Rotary Club of 
Cincinnati; the Babies' Milk Fund; the Center for Quality Leadership; 
and the Ohio Association of Children's Hospitals. I had the privilege 
of serving with Dr. Schubert on the board of the Springer School in 
Cincinnati. Dr. Schubert is the recipient of Children's Hospital 
Medical Center Board of Trustees' William Cooper Procter Medallion; the 
Cincinnati Pediatrics Society Founder's Award; and the University of 
Cincinnati's Daniel Drake and Distinguished Alumni Awards.
  All of us in the Greater Cincinnati area are grateful to Dr. Schubert 
for his service to our community, and congratulate him on being named a 
Great Living Cincinnatian.

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