June 27, 2007

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The University of Alabama System Board Of Trustees has named Douglas Carroll Tilt, M.D., a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) internal medicine physician, the first recipient of the Eleanor E. Kidd Chair.

Tilt joined the UAB faculty in 1991 as a professor of medicine and the clinical director of internal medicine at The Kirklin Clinic. He now serves as the medical director of the UAB Camellia Medical Group, an internal medicine practice that opened in 2003. Tilt received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and completed his residency at UAB Hospital. In addition, he served as lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

The Eleanor E. Kidd Chair is named for Eleanor Kidd, 92, a loyal supporter of UAB, whose donations served the primary purpose of enhancing the Endowed Professorship in Primary Care Medicine to an endowed chair. Kidd is a longtime resident of Mountain Brook. She graduated from Birmingham Southern in 1935. She went on to attend Columbia University and pursue a modeling career with the well-known John-Robert Powers Agency in New York in the 1940s. Kidd was the last to wear the Hope Diamond before it was donated to the Smithsonian Institution.