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| Copyright 2002 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company The Houston Chronicle June 20, 2002, Thursday 2 STAR EDITION SECTION: A; Pg. 32 LENGTH: 575 words HEADLINE: Dr. George Valter Brindley Jr., Scott and White Clinic leader SOURCE: Staff BYLINE: LYNWOOD ABRAM BODY: Dr. George Valter Brindley Jr., a member of a medical family that helped guide Scott and White Hospital and Clinic in Temple to eminence as one of the largest private group-practice institutions in the nation, died in the hospital Monday of complications of a stroke. He was 87. His father was an early associate of the founders of the Scott and White organization, joining what was then called the Temple Sanitarium in 1911. Following in his father's footsteps, George Valter Brindley Jr. was a board member of the Scott and White Clinic from 1950 until 1979 and president from 1977 until 1979. Brindley in 1979 became founding president of the Scott and White Health Plan, a nonprofit HMO with a current membership of 182,000. He served as president until 1984. "Dr. Brindley set the leadership standards that everyone at Scott and White tried to live up to," said Dr. Alfred B. Knight, president of the organization. Brindley's two brothers also were doctors. One of them, Hanes Brindley, fathered three sons who are currently physicians at Scott and White. Neil Haney, special assistant to Knight, said, "the Brindley family was one of those that produced natural-born doctors." Scott and White, with 18 regional clinics in Central Texas, is the largest such institution in Texas. As such, it records about 1.5 million patient visits a year, has a staff of more than 500 physicians and scientists and more than 7,000 employees. Although the satellite expansion followed Brindley's presidency, he is credited with visualizing the concept as a means of making Scott and White services more accessible for the public. Brindley also helped establish Scott and White in 1979 as the teaching facility for the Texas A&M School of Medicine. From 1984 to 1990, Brindley was executive director of the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, which licenses physicians in Texas and rules in disciplinary cases. The current executive director of the board, Dr. Donald Patrick, called Brindley "a revered leader of the board as it went through dramatic changes in its disciplinary focus. The positive effect he had on the practice of medicine in Texas served the public well and will live on." Brindley, a native of Temple, attended Rice Institute and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1936. Three years later, Brindley earned his medical degree at the UT Medical Branch. During World War II, Brindley served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in India. After the war, Brindley earned a master's degree in surgery from the University of Minnesota. Following an internship at the Medical College of Virginia and a surgical residency at Scott and White, Brindley won a fellowship in thoracic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He joined Scott and White in 1946 and later served as chairman of the surgery department, vice president and president of the Scott and White Clinic and vice president of the Scott and White board of trustees. For 14 years, he also was a member of the Governor's Coordinating Board for the Texas College and University System. Brindley leaves his wife of 63 years, Cleo Love Brindley of Temple; three daughters, Beverly Griffith of Houston, Martha Beckworth of Longview and Joan Brindley of Temple; and a brother, Dr. Clyde Brindley of San Saba. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church in Temple under direction of Scanio-Harper Funeral Home in Temple. GRAPHIC: Mug: Dr. George Valter Brindley Jr. (3-star edition) TYPE: Obituary LOAD-DATE: June 21, 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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