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Anthony B. Way has witnessed and helped make history for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. With his retirement, he now will take the next step in the circle of life.
The day he arrived in Lubbock in July 1972, Anthony B. Way, M.D., Ph.D., along with his wife Barbara H. Way, M.D., he knew they were in for an interesting future. The Ways, both founding faculty members of the School of Medicine, arrived a month before the first medical students came to the new Texas Tech School of Medicine.
"It was a dynamic time," Way said. "We all knew we were starting from scratch. Drane Hall was an old dorm, the classroom was the dining hall and the anatomy room was the old kitchen."
Way would become a part of history, serving as a professor in the School of Medicine for more than 33 years. He retired in November, not before serving in numerous positions and building many of the programs that are now in place for the new generation of students.
He began his Texas Tech School of Medicine career as a professor with the Department of Environmental Health and Zoological Medicine. He was chairman and professor of the Department of Occupational and Preventive Medicine, which would later merge with the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Way also served as the founding residency director of General Preventive Medicine and assistant dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education.
Way has served as director of Public Health for the Lubbock City Health Department, medical director of the Preventive Medicine Center at University Medical Center, graduate faculty of the Department of Anthropology at Texas Tech University, as well as numerous other positions.