Remembrances of 5 Leaders and Contributors in Vascular Surgery

In September 2011, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) sponsored a series of audiovisual interviews with leaders and contributors in vascular surgery to preserve the archives of SVS and chronicle vascular surgery as a distinct surgical specialty. A committee called the History Project Work Group was formed with James Yao as Chair. The members are Norman Rich, Roger Gregory, Peter Lawrence, Mark Eskandari, Melina Kibbe, Walter McCarthy, William Pearce, Ken Cherry, and Bill Baker, with Calvin Ernst as a Consultant. The committee formulated the selection criteria of candidates as reported recently. Based on the selection criteria, the work group developed a list of candidates for interview categorized by seniority. The committee intended to interview Dr. James A. DeWeese, Dr. Robert Rutherford, Dr. David Sumner, and Dr. Roy Greenberg; however, illness made this ultimately impossible. All 4 of these leaders and Wiley Barker died in the past 2 months. We fully understood the possibility of encountering death while recording the SVS history but the consecutive loss of 5 colleagues in such a short period is difficult to bear. Never before has vascular surgery experienced such a loss in such a short time.

Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - February 7, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: James S.T. Yao, Roger T. Gregory, Mark K. Eskandari, History Project Work Group of the Society for Vascular Surgery Tags: Invited Commentary Source Type: research