Dr. AND Mrs. Nolph, MDs – Welcome summer residents

Doctor Georgia Nolph was born in Appleton, Minnesota, USA, on Jan. 26, 1938, where she attended and graduated from public school in May 1956. She attended Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1959, attaining a B.A. with a Pre-Med major (Chemistry, Biology) and Education minor. She graduated with a MD degree from the Woman's College of Pennsylvania in June1964.

Doctor Georgia served a rotating Internship in 1964-65 at Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, in 1964-65.

As a post-graduate professional, Doctor Nolph has served at the Family Medical Care Center (later Family Practice Clinic), University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, Columbia, Missouri, from Sept. 1969 to present.

She has served as the physician to the Medical Out-Patient Department, Walter Reed General Hospital, Oct. 1967 to June 1969. She has also been a part-time Student Health physician; a physician at an underprivileged Children's Camp at Haverford College in Pennsylvania in 1966, and served part-time in Industrial medicine at Clifton Precision Inc. Doctor Georgia was the medical examiner for five insurance companies from Sept. 1965 to June 1967. She was Assistant Physician to the Out-Patient's Department at Bryn Mawr Hospital, Pennsylvania from Sept. 1965 to June 1969. She took a leave of absence July 1967 to June 1969 to accompany her husband Karl, who was on active duty with the United States Army.

Her medical licenses include: Diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners; Pennsylvania Medical License, July 1965- 1970; Missouri Medical Licence, May 1969 to present; Diplomat, American Board of Family practice - 1979, re-certified 1986, 1993. This lady also has teaching appointments to several universities.

Doctor Nolph also belongs to a dozen organizations, including the American Legion Auxiliary, and the Advisory Board of the Town and Country magazine. She is also an active member of the Missouri United Methodist Church.

In the church, Doctor Georgia Nolph serves on the Library Committee; is an accompanist for children's choirs, and is a member of the Chancel Choir of her church. She is also a member of the Columbia, Missouri Civic Orchestra Board of Directors.

She has several publications to her credit. She has carried out book reviews, including The Handbook of Poisoning; Book Review of Primary Care; and collaborated with others on many other publications and reviews, including Aging in Humans and an article in PD Today, Preparing to Die. She also published an article in Medical Crossfire, entitled "Should Physicians Report Patients with Medical Conditions That Make Them Unsafe Drivers."

Doctor Nolph has also been the recipient of several sizeable grants for investigative procedures.

She has made presentations to many important conferences - "Poisonings: Initial Diagnosis and Management” to the First International Conference of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1972, and “Health Maintenance and Thyroid Disease in the Elderly”, to mention just a couple. Other accomplishments include: acting as the Moderator of many conferences and Official Photographer for the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd annual conferences on Dialysis, held in various United States cities. She has also been moderator for several conferences on various medical topics.

This very busy medical doctor is also a wonderful lady who has been honoured by the following: Who's Who in the Midwest; the International Who's Who of Business and Professional Women; Who's Who in America, and was named Honourary Alumnus, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, April 1998.

Her husband is Karl David Nolph, MD, retired, Head Division of Nephrology at the University of Missouri Health Services Center in Columbia, Missouri.

The Nolphs have two children: a daughter, Erika Lynn Nolph Ringdahl, MD, born in 1964 and a son, Christopher Karl Nolph, DDS, born 1970.

Karl Nolph. MD, FACP, FRCPS (Glasgow) and spouse of Dr. Georgia B. Nolph, was born in Brookville, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 6, 1937. He attended Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was granted a BS in Chemistry in June 1959. He continued in that university and attained a degree in medicine (MD) in 1963. He was granted a Nephrology Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1967.

Doctor Karl's current Titles and Positions are mind-boggling. He is listed as Curator's Emeritus; Broaddus Distinguished Professor of medicine; Curator's Distinguished Professor of Medicine and is heavily involved in the University Of Missouri Health Sciences Center and School of Medicine and the Dalton Cardiovascular Research center.

Doctor Karl's selected honours come from a variety of universities, which include: The Chancellor's Research Award, University of Missouri; the Presidential Research Award; The Faculty Alumni Award; and the Distinguished Faculty Award, all from the University of Missouri.

He has also received the American Kidney Fund, National Torchbearer Award. He has been granted an Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow.)

He has also been listed in the first and second editions of Best Doctors in the USA. Doctor Karl also received the Belding H. Scribner Award; The American Society of Nephrology, 1997; and the A.N. Richards Award, University of Pennsylvania, October 1998.

This amazing physician has chaired 153 national and international meetings; authored and edited 33 books; served on 23 Editorial Boards; has made 889 presentations at national and international meetings; has had 334 abstracts published, and has produced a total of 613 publications.

This physician has had an amazing career and one that I could not possibly cover. Just as a start, he has served as President of the American Society of Nephrology and on many diagnostic and Therapeutic Technology assessment committees. He has also distinguished himself through international appointments.

In spite of their busy professional life, these two wonderful people look forward to spending their summers at Summerville Beach. While in our midst, and we welcome them each year, Doctor Karl plays a trumpet in the Liverpool brass band. His spouse, Georgia, is also a talented musician.

What more can I write? Anyone who has met this delightful couple will agree with me, I am sure, so I had better end this at this point, while I think I am ahead of the game.

Anyway, we can't wait to welcome the Nolphs to Summerville Beach, around the beginning of June each year.