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Tom F. Whayne received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in 1931 and his doctoral degree in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health in 1950. Whayne served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1934 to 1955, working for much of that time in the Office of the Surgeon General in the areas of medical intelligence and preventive medicine. After retiring from the military, Whayne served as a professor and administrator at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1955-63) and at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (1963-74).

Edward Earl Whitacre, Jr. is the former Chairman and CEO of General Motors and AT&T Inc.

Harvey Lester White earned both his bachelor's and medical degrees from Washington University. After initially interning as a pediatric resident at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Boston Floating Hospital, he realized he was more interested in physiology. Between 1946 and 1965, he directed the physiology department at Washington University School of Medicine, retiring as professor emeritus.

Park Jerauld White was born in Green Ridge, Staten Island on December 31, 1891. He studied at Harvard College, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1913. He later received his medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1917. Shortly after matriculation, Dr. White entered the U.S. Army, where he served as a 1st Lieutenant and Medical Officer in a number of military installations across the United States.

After finishing his military service in 1920, Dr. White moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he established a private practice. He maintained his private practice until his retirement in 1965. Beginning in 1921, Dr. White also served as the Assistant Visiting Pediatrician at Children's Hospital. He held this position until 1962. Additionally, Dr. White served as the Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Professional Conduct at Washington University School of Medicine from 1921-1946. In 1925, he was awarded an Instructorship in Clinical Pediatrics at the Washington University Medical School, a post he would hold until 1958. From 1958 to 1962, Dr. White served as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics. He became a Professor Emeritus in the same department in 1962. Dr. White also served as the Director of Pediatrics at Homer G. Phillips Hospital from 1945 until his retirement in 1966.

Dr. White's first moment of national recognition came in 1925 when he published an article in The Nation's Health entitled 'The Health of Colored Babies in St. Louis.' In this article, he compared the death rates of African American and Caucasian babies in the city of St. Louis. He found that for every 1,000 African American babies born, 126 died. This rate was almost double that of Caucasian babies.

In addition to his work at the Washington University School of Medicine and various area hospitals, Dr. White was also a renowned poet and essayist, an active member of a number of area and professional organizations, and a strong voice for health and civil equality for all St. Louis citizens. His works of literature were published in numerous journals and magazines, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Pediatrics, Today's Health, and the United Church Herald. In the community, Dr. White played an active role in a number of organizations such as the YMCA/YWCA, the St. Louis Civil Liberties Union, the Committee for Environmental Information, and many others.

Dr. White served as the President of the St. Louis Pediatric Society for two years and the State Chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics for eight years. Dr. White was also an active member of the St. Louis Conference on Race Relations, a position in which he worked to help African American physicians gain membership to the St. Louis Medical Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. White remained an active member of St. Louis society and the university until his death on August 6, 1987.

Noted immunologist Emil R. Unanue was born in Havana, Cuba in 1934. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1952 from the Institute of Secondary Education in Havana, and his medical degree in 1960 from the University of Havana School of Medicine.

After an internship in pathology at the Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh in the early 1960s, Unanue served as research fellow at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California and the National Institute for Medical Research in London. In 1970 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, where he became the Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology in 1974. Unanue moved to St. Louis and the Washington University School of Medicine in 1985 as head of the department of Pathology and Immunology and as pathologist-in-chief of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. During his twenty-one year tenure, the immunology program at Washington University became one of the most innovative and productive centers in the world for immunological research.

Unanue currently serves as the Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine. He is internationally recognized as a leader in understanding how the immune system identifies foreign matter (antigen) and how immune system T cells respond to it. Unanue's pioneering research into how immune recognition and attacks take place continues to help scientists gain insights that may one day be used to improve the body's defenses against diseases and to disarm misdirected immune attacks that could lead to autoimmune conditions such as diabetes and arthritis.

Unanue is a recipient of the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Robert Koch Gold Medal from Germany. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine.

Source: http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/mig/bios/unanue.html

Mokhtar Gado was born in Monoufiah, Egypt and was educated at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1949 and his medical degree in 1953. He completed internships and residencies at Cairo University Hospital, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, England, and National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, England before joining the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine as a senior fellow in Neuroradiology in November, 1970. In 1972 Gado was appointed chief of the Neuroradiology Section; he relinquished his administrative duties in 1991 to devote his full time to research and teaching.

Gado was a leading researcher of neurological diseases and has done extensive research into magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and spine. He is recognized for his extensive research in the radiological manifestations of Alzheimer’s disease and brain changes in the elderly, and in the correlation of physical principles of magnetic resonance to the pathologic changes in the disease processes of the central nervous system.