TSA 2008 Annual Meeting Brochure
2008 TSA Distinguished Service Award
William
H. Hadnott, II, M.D.
Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:30 a.m.
William H. Hadnott, MD was born and grew up in Beaumont, Texas. He
attended the segregated public schools in the French Independent School
District along with his three sisters and three brothers. His parents
were school teachers who instilled the principle that education was essential
to improve their status in life. Both parents unfortunately, passed away
at a young age. Fortunately, for Dr. Hadnott and his siblings, they
were able to continue their education and all became college graduates.
Dr. Hadnott attended Wiley College a small, Methodist Church supported school in Marshall, Texas. He majored in chemistry and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. degree in 1952. In 1953, he entered medical school at UTMB-Galveston and graduated in 1957. After a rotating internship at Sacramento County Hospital, Sacramento, California, he opened his medical practice in Bay City, Texas in 1958. He practiced family medicine in Bay City until he was accepted into the University of Texas Health Science Centers’ first anesthesiology residency program in San Antonio in 1967.
Upon completing his residency in 1969, Dr. Hadnott joined the anesthesia faculty of UTHSCSA full-time for one year after which he became part time faculty there while pursuing a career in private practice as an anesthesiologist. Dr. Hadnott served as Chief of Anesthesiology for the Baptist Memorial Hospital System in San Antonio from 1974-1988 and as Chief of Staff for the Nix Memorial Hospital from 1993-1995. As a part time faculty member, he was committed to the supervision of anesthesia residents and medical students in the operating room. He retired from private practice in 1998 but continued a university practice for another eight years before retiring from UTHSCSA with 37 years of dedicated service.
Dr. Hadnott has served as a member of the Bexar County Board of Mediations Committee, the Presidential Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs at UTMB, and the Board of Trustees for the UTMB Alumni Association. He is currently a member of the Diversity in Medical Education Committee for the UTMB Alumni Association and is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus Award from UTMB, and the Outstanding Alumni Award by UTHSCSA Dept. of Anesthesiology. In 1997, the Texas House of Representatives of the 75th Texas Legislature passed House Resolution No. 417 which served as official notice of Dr. Hadnott’s visionary leadership in the field of medicine.
Dr. Hadnott is currently a member of the American Medical Association, Texas Medical Association, Bexar County Medical Society, Texas Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Anesthesiologists and the C.A. Whittier Medical Society of which he serves as a founding member. Dr. Hadnott is a Fellow of the American College of Anesthesiology and a Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Dr. Hadnott is an avid golfer and San Antonio Spurs fan. He has been married to his wife Janis for 45 years and they have four children.
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