The Founding Dean’s Fund

The new Founding Dean’s Fund, created in honor of UMKC School of Medicine’s first dean, Richardson K. Noback, M.D., directly benefits students at the School of Medicine.

Each year, the current dean of the school collaborates with student leadership to identify student needs. The School of Medicine Alumni Board then selects at least one student needs to support. Needs include student research, travel funding, test preparation materials and much more.

Rewards of Giving

Donors who give $2,500 or more in a fiscal year to this fund become members of The Noback Society. 

Benefits include:

• Name recognition in digital and print materials
• Exclusive “State of the School” meetings with the dean of the School of Medicine

For more information, contact Matt Astleford.

Give to the Founding Dean's Fund

The Inaugural Class of The Noback Society (2024)

• Dr. Thomas P. Hubbell (M.D. ’75) and Dr. Patricia Hubbell (M.D. ’75)
• Dr. Mary Anne Jackson (B.A. ‘77/M.D. ’78) and Dr. Jay A. Jackson (B.A. ‘77/M.D. ’78)
• Dr. Stanley G. Shaffer (B.A. ‘77/M.D. ’79) and Dr. Kathleen B. Shaffer (B.A. ‘76/M.D. ’79)
• Dr. Andy Zimmerman (B.A. ‘85/M.D. ’87) and Sussanne Slater
• Dr. Mary Pat Strickland-Lange (B.A./M.D. ’85) and Dr. Michael Lange
• Dr. Amit J. Patel (B.L.A. ‘04/M.D. ’05) and Dr. Neha Patel (B.L.A./M.D. ’02)
• Dr. Jean Ayres (M.D. ’78)
• Dr. Daphne Rae Ondr (B.A. ‘96/M.D. ’97) and Dr. Jeff Ondr (B.A. ‘95/M.D. ’96)
• Dr. Deepa H. Chand (B.A./M.D. ’96)  and Dr. Bipan Chand (B.A. ‘94/M.D. ’96)
• Dr. Mamta Reddy (B.A. ‘96/M.D. ’98)
• Dr. Alexander J. Kim  (B.A./M.D. ’96)
• Dr. Mark T. Steele (B.A./M.D. ’80) and Mrs. Ginni Steele
• Dr. Jeffrey A. Wright (B.A. ‘77/M.D. ’78)  Ms. Sara L. Wright
• Dr. Michael L. Weaver (B.A. ‘76/M.D. ’77) and Ms. Jamila Weaver
• Dr. Derik K. King (B.A. ‘92/M.D. ’93) and Mrs. Jacqueline Heflin King
• Dr. Michele Kilo (B.A./M.D. ’84) and Mr. Blake Matthews

Who was Dean Noback?

Richardson K. Noback, M.D. served as a consultant assisting Kansas City General Hospital and the University of Missouri-Columbia in developing a health sciences center on Hospital Hill in the 1960s. In 1971, before UMKC School of Medicine opened, he was selected to be acting dean, and then was officially named dean of the brand new school. It was a role he served in until 1978. Noback continued working as a senior docent at the school until 1990 and retired from medicine in 1993.