Watlington Hall, completed in 1980, was known as the Focus Building during its construction and shortly after its completion.  The Focus Building was dedicated as Watlington Hall in 1981 in honor of John F. Watlington, Jr.

At six stories and 178,000 square feet of space, Watlington Hall, at the time of its opening, provided space for academic and administrative offices, including the executive offices of the Medical Center.

Watlington Hall is architecturally unique compared to the other buildings at the Medical Center.  It is easily noticeable from Hawthorne Road, as the black glass reflects everything around it, including Davis Chapel as seen in this photograph.

In this photograph, John F. Watlington (right) is standing outside of the building that bears his name.  On the left is Leon Rice, Jr., a former Chairman of the Medical Center Board.

In 1990 the MRI Building was expanded in order to accommodate the development of a Positron Emission Tomography Center.

In 1989 construction was completed on the Clinical Sciences Building, the Medical Center’s new main entrance.  The eleven story, 308,000 square-foot building provided space for the centralization of most of the center’s outpatient clinical functions.  After the Clinical Sciences Building opened, some services included in it were the Eye Center, the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the outpatient surgical center.

The Clinical Sciences Building is connected to both Reynolds Tower and North Tower.

In 1998 the building was dedicated to Richard Janeway, and became known as the Richard Janeway Clinical Sciences Building.

In 1966 Dr. Janeway became a faculty member at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, where he was already a NIH trainee since 1963.  By 1971 he was a professor in neurology.  Also in 1971 Dr. Janeway became dean of the medical school, a position he held until 1994.  In 1983 when Dr. Manson Meads retired, Dr. Janeway took on the role of vice president for health affairs, and in 1990 he was promoted to executive vice president for health affairs.  In 1997 Dr. Janeway retired from his position at Wake Forest University, yet he maintains his connection to the school as University Professor of Medicine and Management.

In addition to his distinguished career at Wake Forest, Dr. Janeway was also prominent on the national level, as he was chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 1984 to 1985.  This is the highest office possible in academic medicine.

A new operating room area moved into the entire first floor of North Tower.  Two adult intensive care units moved into the fourth and fifth floors.  Both the coronary care unit and psychiatric services were expanded as well.

Brenner Children's Hospital moved into two floors of North Tower.  With the new move, Brenner's bed total rose to 138.  In 2002 Brenner Children's Hospital relocated to Ardmore Tower West.