Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

D E M E T R I U S B A G L E Y Address: 506 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Email: dhbagley@gmail.com ● demetrius.bagley@jefferson.edu ● Phone: C: 215-205-2591

ureteroscopies. I worked with him and Jeff Huffman for the next few years. It was fun because everything we did was new. After four years, we moved back east to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The location was good. It was east and approximately midway between my in-laws in New York State and my family in Washington, D.C. I have remained here since 1983. It has been a good run with many new developments in urologic endoscopy. I have had the great privilege to travel widely for lectures, clinics and courses going to over 35 different countries. I had a very active clinical practice and was considering slowing down when I suddenly changed roles from provider to patient. In 2011, I was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma. It was treated with ablative chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant. I had planned to go to a medical school reunion that year, but had to cancel it. I called Ron Oser to tell him that I would not be coming and asked him to thank Ivor Royston for Rituxan. Ron said that Ivor was in the car with him and passed him the phone. What was the chance of that? After that health episode, I stopped clinical practice but have continued teaching and research. I still run a yearly urology symposium which has now been going for 26 years. My role as patient has been reinforced over the last 1 1/2 year with a synovial sarcoma of the leg (radiation and surgery with wound revision x 2) and then a sebaceous carcinoma of the neck (surgery, radiation and chemo) I was surprised how much time it takes to be a patient. I have also added a slide to appropriate lectures stating “the worst day as a provider is better than the best day as a patient.” It is easy to recognize and to say that the days of medical school and years of training were worth it.

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1966

Postgraduate Training/Certification: General Surgery Residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1970-72 Clinical Associate, Surgery Branch, NCI, Bethesda, MD, 1972-75 Urology Residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1975-79 Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Storz Lifetime Achievement Award, Endourology Society, 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, American Urological Association, 2014

Current Employment: Nathan Lewis Hatfield Professor of Urology Professor of Radiology Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Jacqueline Bagley

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Jacques Bagley

Narrative: Is it really 50-54 years since medical school? I remember the work but I also remember the people – the other students at breakfast in Reed Hall, the lab partners, and particularly the attendings who really were models. Of course, I knew the students with last names beginning with letters early in the alphabet. Immediately after graduation, I drove to Poughkeepsie, New York to get married to Jacqueline on May 30. A month later, I started internship at Yale New Haven Hospital in surgery. My son was born 1 ½ years later and in July we left for Bethesda, Maryland to the surgery branch of NCI. The planned two-year stay grew to three when the opportunity and the bonus payment system arose. It was during that time that I made a final career choice, rejecting obstetrics and plastic surgery to prefer urology. Back to New Haven for four years. Great faculty and great training. The next step was to get a real job. I wanted an academic position and went to the University of Chicago. Although I initially visited shortly after a major snowstorm, it took a few more years to learn what cold weather really is. I was very fortunate there because Ed Lyon had just done his earliest

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