GRANVILLE, Ohio—The late Dr. Patricia Ann Gibbons, a member of the Denison class of 1972, will be honored with a dedication in her memory of a lecture room in Denison University’s Samson Talbot Hall. The dedication, with members of her family in attendance, will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, in the Gibbons Lecture Room of the Samson Talbot Hall of Biological Sciences (350 Ridge Road). The event is free and open to the public.
Gibbons was a pediatric anesthesiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a nationally acclaimed speaker on children’s health issues. After graduating from Denison as an economics and chemistry double major, she earned an M.D. in 1976 from the University of Cincinnati. Gibbons completed her pediatric and anesthesia residencies in Cincinnati, and in 1981 she received the Robert D. Dripps M.D. Memorial Award as the outstanding graduate resident in anesthesiology. She moved to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 1984, serving in the anesthesia and critical care departments, and was an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati until her death in 2002.
Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement, and the cultivation of independent thinking.
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CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville— Gibbons Lecture Room dedication at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, in the Gibbons Lecture Room of the Samson Talbot Hall of Biological Science (350 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Mary Frazell at 740-587-6611 or visit
www.denison.edu.
About Denison:
Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.
