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A Lifetime of Giving Back

Bullock Family Brings Values of Service to the Pee Dee 

Gunter Bullock’s relationship with his family instilled his values of giving back by devoting time to important causes. Fortunately for the Pee Dee, his professional life led him to our region.

Gunter grew up in Thomasville, Georgia, where he found his passion for community service in high school. While obtaining his undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Georgia, he volunteered at the local indigent healthcare clinic and spent his summers working at his Uncle Dennis Wheelus’nuclear pharmacy in Florence, South Carolina.

This experience led him to attend the Medical University of South Carolina’s College of Pharmacy to study Nuclear Pharmacy. While there, he met his wife Emily, and they married in 2016. He continued his focus on helping others by serving on three medical mission trips to Nicaragua. 

His Uncle Dennis opened Pee Dee Isotopes in 1993 and provided nuclear medicine services for McLeod Health and the surrounding region. The business was eventually sold in 2007. However, in 2015, Gunter, Dennis, and Casey Hydro reopened the business to bring back quality nuclear medicine service to McLeod Health. The reopened the business, is now called PDI Pharmacy Services. 

“We think of McLeod not as a customer but as a partner,” explains Gunter. “We know that by doing what is best for McLeod, we are doing what is best for our region.”

For Gunter and Emily, Florence is home for their expanded family which includes three young children. Emily is a clinical staff pharmacist in the inpatient and pediatric pharmacy in the McLeod Children’s Hospital. She experiences firsthand how physicians and staff care for the children of our region.

“It is truly a blessing to have access to this amazing facility,” shares Emily.

The young couple began their relationship with the McLeod Health Foundation by joining the Circle of Excellence, a young giving society which involves donors 45 years and younger who make a generous donation of $500 or more annually to support patient care at McLeod. 

As his understanding of the work of the Foundation grew, Gunter continued his interest in service by serving as a McLeod Fellow and then joining the McLeod Health Foundation’s Board of Trustees.  

He also led a substantial commitment from PDI Pharmacy to benefit the new McLeod Center for Cancer Treatment and Research in Horry County. This meaningful gift was inspired by his father’s journey with Appendix Cancer.

Gunter and Emily have also made a legacy gift in their estate plans to the McLeod Health Foundation and have been inducted into the Dr. F. H. McLeod Legacy Society.

“We want good healthcare in our region, and it truly needs to be a community effort, or we won’t have quality medical care for our families, friends and neighbors,” adds Gunter as he explains their focus on philanthropy.

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