2025 Hall of Fame Inductee
During high school, Sam Lux was in Representative Council, the T Club, and the Madrigals; he had the lead in the musical and wrote and narrated the presentation of The Christmas Story his senior year. Sam earned a BA and medical degree from Kansas University, with an internship and residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1969-1972 he was a Lieutenant Commander in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a Research Fellow in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a clinical fellow in Hematology at Children’s Hospital in Boston. A professor at Harvard Medical School for over 50 years, Sam was the Robert A. Stranahan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Chair at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology for 23 years. Sam oversaw 162 trainees in the Hematology Department and received the first Mentoring Award from the American Society of Hematology. He received the Champions in Healthcare Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology.