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L. Dade Lunsford
2007, San Diego
Dr. Lawrence Dade Lunsford is the Lars Leksell Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He currently is co-director of the Center For Image-Guided Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Director of the Residency Program. Dr. Lunsford’s primary scholarly and patient care interests have been related to the combination of imaging and brain surgery. This includes stereotactic surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and image-guided brain surgery. Dr. L...more...
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Peter M. Black
2006, Chicago
Dr. Peter Black was born in Canada and grew up in Northern Ontario. While in high school, he became an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto as a solo performer in piano. He attended Harvard College, graduating with honors. He returned to Canada for medical school at McGill University. He entered surgical and then neurosurgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During this period, he served two years in the United States Navy, mostly at the U.S. Capitol as a physician to ...more...
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Roberto C. Heros
2005, Boston
Roberto C. Heros was born in 1942 in Havana, Cuba. After the Communist takeover in 1960, he left Cuba for exile. He participated as a paratrooper platoon commander in the Bay of Pigs invasion and was captured. After serving two years in prison, Dr. Heros was released as a result of an exchange with the United States Government. He attended medical school at the University of Tennessee where he graduated, first in his class, in 1968.
Dr. Heros had his internship and his first year general surg...more...
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Arnold H. Menezes
2004, San Francisco
Arnold Menezes was born in Bombay, India, where he attended the Topiwala National Medical College at Bombay University; graduating in 1967. He completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Iowa in 1973 under the tutelage of George Perret, MD, and Carl Graf, MD; adding fellowship training in Pediatric Neurology under William Bell, MD, and joined the faculty the following year.
Dr. Menezes is Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa Roy...more...
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Julian T. Hoff
2003, Denver
Julian Hoff was born in Boise, Idaho on September 22, 1936.
He grew up in Caldwell, Idaho. He attended Stanford University where he was awarded his Bachelors Degree in 1958. He then attended Cornell University Medical College in New York City, graduating in 1962. He took General Surgery training for the next two years at the New York Hospital followed by two years as a General Surgeon in the
United States Army in Japan. On completion of military service in 1966, he returned to the New York Hos...more...
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Volker K.H. Sonntag
2002, Philadelphia
Volker K.H. Sonntag, MD “Discovery of the Spine Specialist: Instrumentation for the Cervical Spine”, “Leading the Future of Spine Surgery”, “The Neurosurgeon as Mentor and Student”, PC26 “Operative Colloquium: Masters of Neurological Surgery” and M01 “Resident and Honored Guest Luncheon” (Please see scientific program for dates and times.)
Volker K. H. Sonntag, M.D., was born November 23, 1944, in Graudenz, Germany to Heinz Sonntag and Gisela (née) Albrecht. His family immigrated to America...more...
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Michael L.J. Apuzzo
2001, San Diego
Michael L.J. Apuzzo was born in New Haven Connecticut, the son of a fine craftsman/precision machinist and an operating room nurse. The Apuzzo family had a long maritime heritage with roots in Amalfi on the southern Italian coast. The maternal Lorenz family was Austrian with ties to the Art department at the University of Vienna. From an early age he was influenced by family interests in music, art, and sports as well as significant cultural influences created by the Yale University environments...more...
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Edward R. Laws, Jr.
2000, San Antonio
Edward R. Laws was born in New York City on April 29, 1938, the son of a physician and a teacher/editor. He was educated in the New York City Public School system, attending the Bronx High School of Science. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University with honors in Economics and Sociology in the Special Program in American Civilization. At Princeton he was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Scholarship and combined interests in Sociology and Religion in writing his Senior Thesis.
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