DeMarco Endowed Fellowship shines
light on major need: postgraduate
medical education
If one is pr essed to name the most name working at Baylor, and it frees up
important organ in the body, he or she might money to support gastroenterology fellows
say the heart or brain. But Daniel C. at Baylor.
DeMarco, M.D., will tell you it’s the gut.
More Funding for Fellows
“People don’t worry about their head
Baylor University Medical Center at
every day. They don’t think about their Dallas pays the salaries of five fellows for
heart every day,” Dr. DeMarco said. “But three years each. Thanks to philanthropic
there isn’t a day that goes by that everyone support of the DeMarco endowment, a
doesn’t stop to think about their digestive sixth fellow’s salary is funded each year for
system –whether they’re
perpetuity. Dr. DeMarco himhungry, full or what they’ll
self couldn’t be more pleased,
have for their next meal.”
but warns that in the state of
His answer is not entirely
Texas, more funding is needed
surprising. After all, he spent
to support postgraduate medi31 years in private practice as
cal education.
a gastroenterologist with
While medical schools in the
Baylor Health Care System,
state are enrolling and graduatserving in numerous leadering more medical students,
ship roles and pioneering
funding for their postgraduate
many technological advancemedical education, which is a
ments used to treat digestive Dr. Daniel DeMarco
necessary part of a physician’s
diseases. Retired from private practice in preparation for medical practice, is
2013, Dr. DeMarco is the medical director limited.
of digestive disease technology for Baylor.
“We build more medical schools, and we
And, thanks to generous donors, Baylor get more medical students and more docHealth Care System Foundation celebrated a tors, but we haven’t expanded funding for
new milestone with the completion of a $1.5 postgraduate training. The state doesn’t
million fundraising campaign to establish a have enough funds to pay for medical
gastroenterology fellowship named in honor internships, residencies and fellowships,”
of Dr. DeMarco. “Never underestimate the Dr. DeMarco