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illiam B. Neaves is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to joining the Institute in June 2000, he served in various positions at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, including Professor of Cell Biology, holder of the Doris and Bryan Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Dean of Southwestern Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Dean of Southwestern Medical School, and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
He was born in Spur, Texas in 1943 and graduated from Spur High School in 1962. He received an A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Biology from Harvard College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Anatomy from Harvard University in December 1969. From January 1970 to December 1971, he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship while appointed as a Research Fellow in Anatomy at Harvard Medical School and serving as a Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at The University of Nairobi.
Following service as a Lecturer in Anatomy at Harvard Medical School early in 1972, he joined the faculty of Southwestern Medical School at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he continued his work in reproductive endocrinology and taught medical students and graduate students. He received outstanding teaching awards from first-year medical classes while directing the teaching program in human anatomy at Southwestern from 1975 to 1978. In 1983, he received the Young Andrologist Award of the American Society of Andrology for research contributions to the biology of reproduction. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1991 in recognition of his studies of cells that produce steroid hormones. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles describing the results of his research funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Population Council.
In 1980, he was appointed Dean of Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. In addition to administrative responsibility for basic science research and graduate education as Dean of Southwestern Graduate School, he became Interim Dean of Southwestern Medical School in 1986. In September 1989, he was appointed Dean of Southwestern Medical School, the position he held until July 1998 when he was appointed Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. In the latter position, he was responsible for the three component schools of the Medical Center and served as the institution’s Chief Academic Officer.
While at Southwestern Medical Center, he served as: Associate Editor of the Anatomical Record; member of the Editorial Board of Biology of Reproduction; member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Andrology; member of the Executive Council of the American Society of Andrology; member and co-Chair of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accreditation authority for U.S. medical schools; member of the Board of Directors of the Sarnoff Endowment; member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund; member of the Advisory Committee on Research Programs of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; member of the Health Professions Education Advisory Committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Dallas Mayor’s Biotechnology Task Force; member of the City of Dallas/Dallas Chamber Business Development Delegations to Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and Spain; member of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches/Parkland Hospital Pastoral Care Committee; member of the Linz Award Committee; member of the Dallas Assembly; member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Zoological Society; member of the Advisory Board of the Dallas Museum of Natural History; and advisor to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.
In addition to his position as President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Neaves currently serves as: President and member of the Board of Directors of the Stowers Medical Institute; member of the Board of Directors of BioMed Valley Corporation; professor in the School of Medicine of the University of Missouri at Kansas City; member of the National Council of the Washington University School of Medicine; member of the Board of Trustees of Washington University; vice chairman of the Board of Directors of Midwest Research Institute; and member of the Board of Directors of Cerner Corporation | 