MALCOLM A. BAGSHAW ’46

MALCOLM A. BAGSHAW, M.D., one of the world’s foremost experts in radiation therapy, and chair of the Department of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine for two decades, died Sept. 18, 2011. He was 86. A member of Eclectic, he served in the U.S. Navy and received his degree with honors. After receiving his medical degree from Yale University, he trained at the University of Michigan and then joined the faculty at Stanford, eventually becoming professor emeritus when he retired. He developed radiotherapy techniques for localized prostate cancer that have become the standard of care, and he expanded the uses of the linear accelerator in treating cancers. In 1996 he received the Charles F. Kettering Prize from the General Motors Research Foundation for his role in improving treatment for prostate cancer, and in the same year received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan. Predeceased by his wife, Muriel Hanley Bagshaw, M.D., he is survived by three children, eight grandchildren, and a sister.