Warren G. Stamp, M.D., 78, died Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, at The Colonnades in Charlottesville, Va.

He was born Sept. 21, 1926, in Le Mars. Dr. Stamp graduated from high school in Le Mars and served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. He graduated from Westmar College in Le Mars. He is also a graduate of the University of Iowa Medical School and interned at Detroit Receiving Hospital. He was a resident in surgery and orthopaedic surgery at Harper and Barnes Hospitals in Detroit and St. Louis.

His medical career encompassed, in addition to medical practice, the fields of research and teaching. Washington University in St. Louis named him to their teaching faculty in 1957, a position he held until 1968. In that year he was named to chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Just prior to that appointment he was visiting professor to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Center and the Mary Marlboro Rehabilitation Center at Oxford University in England.

Dr. Stamp's research interests were always centered in the area of children's diseases. As an orthopaedic surgeon in St. Louis, he was involved with the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children. In Virginia, he worked with the Children's Rehabilitation Center and conducted monthly children's clinics in cities through out the western part of Virginia.

In 1965 he was selected as one of four Traveling Fellows by the American and British Orthopaedic Associations. He was a Diplomat of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy.

Dr. Stamp was active in a number of professional societies such as The Interurban Club, The Little Orthopaedic Club, the Virginia Orthopaedic Society and the Association of Orthopaedics. He served on numerous committees for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and on the Special Projects Review Committee for the National Institutes of Health. He served on the Governor's Overall Advisory Council on Spinal Cord Injury from 1972 to 1982 and won an American Cancer Society Award in 1964.

During his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Virginia, he established a Prosthetics and Orthotics shop with a grant from the Public Health Services in conjunction with the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease and also established the Rehabilitation Engineering Center with emphasis on spinal cord discontinuity.

He was elected to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Society in 1974. In 1983 he received the Physician of the Year award from the Governor's Overall Advisory Council on the Needs of Handicapped Persons. In 1992 he retired as Chairman of Orthopaedics at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

He is survived by his wife, Laura Jones Stamp; three sons, Warren G. Stamp Jr., his wife Shelia Torres and daughter, Shaina; Dr. Cornelius van der Meer Stamp, Marcus van der Mey Stamp, his wife, Laura Mitchell Stamp and son, Mitchell Stamp, and his two nieces, Joyce and Marilyn; five stepchildren, Walker Jones Thornton, Lewis Jones III and his wife Kim, Stephen Farinholt Jones and his wife, Vicki, Robert Healy Jones and his wife, Elizabeth, and Maria Hope Jones; and seven grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Hazel Stamp; his first wife, Mary Muilenberg Stamp; and a sister, Helen Stamp Brooker.

The funeral will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Ivy, Va., at 11 a.m. Saturday. The Rev. Jane Sigloh will be officiating. The Hill and Wood Funeral Service, Inc., of Charlottesville, Va., is in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to The Warren G. Stamp Endowed Professor Chair of Orthopaedics, P.O. Box 800159, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908.

The family wishes to express their deep appreciation to the staff of the Colonnades and the Hospice of the Piedmont, and to the many special caregivers during his prolonged illness.