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SURGERY NEWS • N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 7 NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE Dr. Healy Installed as 88th ACS President G otolaryngology (1969-1972) at Boston erald B. Healy, M.D., FACS, an University Medical Center. Dr. Healy otolaryngologist from Boston, became a diplomate of the American was installed as the 88th PresiBoard of Otolaryngology in 1972. dent of the American College of SurAn ACS Fellow since geons during Convocation 1977, Dr. Healy has been acceremonies that preceded tively involved in the goverthe official opening of the nance of the College, inCollege’s 93rd annual Clinicluding serving as a cal Congress in New Ormember of the College’s leans last month. Dr. Healy Board of Regents since 1997 is the Healy Chair in Pediand as chair from 2005 to atric Otolaryngology and 2006—the first otolaryngolprofessor of otology and ogist to serve in that capacilaryngology at Harvard ty. Dr. Healy has also served Medical School, Boston, and GERALD B. as a member (1999 to preotolaryngologist-in-chief at HEALY, M.D., FACS sent) and chair (2000-2004) Children’s Hospital, Boston. of the Regents’ Central Judiciary ComA native of Boston, Dr. Healy remittee, a member of the Honors Comceived a bachelor of arts degree from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., mittee (1999 to present), chair of the ACS Advisory Council for Otorhinoin 1963 and earned a medical degree from Boston University School of Med- laryngology (1995-1998), and president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the icine in 1967. He completed a surgical ACS from 1997 to 1998. internship (1967-1968), surgical resiIn addition to his service to the Coldency (1968-1969), and residency in lege, Dr. Healy has held many leadership positions in organized surgery. He was director of the American Board of Otolaryngology (1986-2004) and served as its executive vice-president (19982004). Furthermore, Dr. Healy was president of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (1987-1988), the American Bronchoesophagological Association (1990-1991), the American Laryngological Association (19992000), and the American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological (Triological) Society (2000-2001). He is also a past vice-president of the International Bronchoesophagological Society (2001-2002), and he has served as a director of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (1991-1993). Beyond his service to surgical societies, Dr. Healy has also devoted his professional life to several significant clinical and research endeavors in children. As an internationally recog- nized clinician, he pioneered the use of laser surgery in the pediatric airway. His research interests have included diseases of the pediatric airway and ear, for which he has received support from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Healy’s contributions to the surgical profession also include his work as a member of the following editorial boards: International Journal of Pediatric Otolaryngology; The Laryngoscope; Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology; Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy; and SURGERY NEWS. He is also a reviewer for the Journal of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Healy currently resides in Wellesley and Centerville, Mass., with his wife, Anne. They have two daughters: Lisa Healy Lacey, a professor at Suffolk Law School in Boston, and Laurie Healy Ewald of Newton, Mass. ■ Trauma Seminar Spans Wide Range of Specialtiesaculty from across the nation will present timely trauma and critical care issues aimed at improving care of the acutely injured patient at the 30th annual Advances in Trauma seminar. Sponsored by the ACS Committee on Trauma, Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska), this continuing medical education course will take place Dec. 7-8 at The Westin Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo. The regional and state chairs have planned a program that will benefit all individuals who are involved in trauma patient care. Current trauma diagnostic and therapeutic techniques will provide the audience with the most up-to-date information available. This seminar will offer content valuable to trauma, general, vascular, and orthopedic surgeons; primary care and emergency physicians; trauma coordinators; trauma and critical care nurses; and surgical residents who care for injured patients. The Friday program will include a keynote lecture, For the Patient, presented by David V. Feliciano, M.D., FACS. Other lectures will include the following: Penetrating Cervical Injury; Penetrating Thoracoabdominal Wounds: A Role for Laparoscopy?; PIPS: The Key to Quality Trauma Care; Optimal Treatment of Hemorrhage Shock; End Points of Resuscitation; Surgical Critical Care: A Discipline at the Crossroads; The Injured Duodenum; Emergency Department Thoracotomy: When and How; Operative Treatment of Lung Injury; and Case Presentations. Saturday’s program will continue with the following lectures: The Tip of the Spear: Advances in Military Trauma Care; Bench Research to Battlefield Care; Hemostatic Resuscitation; Critical Care Air Transport Team: State-of-the-Art Aeromedical Transport; Complex Liver Injury: Operation or Angiography; Thoracic Aortic Rupture: Operate, Stent, or Observe?; Cost-Containment Opportunities in Trauma Care; Clearing the Cervical Spine: The Final Word; The Latest on Local Hemostatics; Acute Lung Injury: Management in the Intensive Care Unit; and Stump the State Chairs. Faculty members are: Juan A. Asensio, M.D., FACS; Roxie M. Albrecht, M.D., FACS; L.D. Britt, M.D., MPH, FACS; David G. Burris, M.D., FACS; Reginald A. Burton, M.D., FACS; Philip R. Caropreso, M.D., FACS; H. Gill Cryer, M.D., FACS; Demetrios Demetriades, M.D., FACS; Warren Dorlac, M.D., FACS; Jonathan M. Dort, M.D., FACS; David V. Feliciano, M.D., FACS; Eric R. Frykberg, M.D., FACS; Ray D. Gaines, M.D., FACS; Jeffrey S. Hammond, M.D., FACS; Roger E. Huckfeldt, M.D., FACS; Fred A. Luchette, M.D., FACS; Lee V. Ludwig, M.D., FACS; Jorie D. Klein, RN; Frank L. Mitchell III, M.D., FACS; Peter Rhee, M.D., MPH, FACS; Richard A. Sidwell, M.D., FACS; R. Stephen Smith, M.D., FACS; and Gregory A. Timberlake, M.D., FACS. A pre-meeting course, Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, is scheduled for 7:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6. Registration for this course is limited to 40 participants and requires a separate registration. For more information, visit the ACS Web site at: www.facs.org/trauma/cme/ traumtgs.html. ■ NIH Networking Opportunities Offered at Young Surgical Investigators Conference he ACS will offer the Eighth Biennial Young Surgical Investigators Conference March 7-9, 2008, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in North Bethesda, Md. The conference is designed to assist surgeon-scientists in obtaining extramural, peer-reviewed grant support for their work and to introduce them to the process, content, style, and people involved in successful grant-writing and interactions with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Participating surgeon-scientists have an opportunity to meet their peers, and to talk with key NIH staff and many of the leading surgeonscientists. The program includes intensive expoAMERICAN COLLEGE OF The 2007 Surgical Forum volume was dedicated to Lazar J. Greenfield, M.D., FACS, at the Clinical Congress in October. Dr. Greenfield (center) is pictured with Stanley W. Ashley, M.D., FACS (left), and Robert W. Thompson, M.D., FACS. SURGEONS T sure to NIH programs and policies, information from NIH institutes; how to apply; workshops in hypothesis testing, methodology, background, and preliminary results; grant-writing strategies; and mock study sections reviewing model grants. The conference fee ($1,795, or $1,620 if registration and payment are received by Dec. 14), includes all related conference materials, meals, breaks, receptions, and lodging for two nights. For information or to register, go to www.facs.org/cqi/src/youngsurg.html. Direct questions to mfitzgerald@facs.org or call 312202-5319. ■ http://www.facs.org/trauma/cme/traumtgs.html http://www.facs.org/trauma/cme/traumtgs.html http://www.facs.org/cqi/src/youngsurg.html

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