Leading cardiac surgeon to speak here

Lawrence Cohn

Dr. Lawrence Cohn, president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, will be the eighth annual visiting scholar in cardiothoracic surgery at the UW next week.

His visit, sponsored by the Department of Surgery’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, will include two presentations and participation in teaching rounds and a program on division research.

He will speak at 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 7, in room K-069 of the Health Sciences Center on “Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.” The lecture is open to everyone and will be followed by a reception.

On Saturday morning, May 8, the division will host a breakfast meeting at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle. Cohn will speak on “Aortic Valve Replacement 1999: What Operation in What Patient?” For more information on this event, call Margo Boyd at 685-8644.

Cohn, who is also chief of the Cardiothoracic Resident Training Program at Brigham and Women’s/Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston, has clinical and research interests spanning the field of cardiac surgery.

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he earned his M.D. degree from Stanford. After two years of surgical residency at Boston City Hospital, he was a clinical associate in surgery at the National Institutes of Health. He completed a general surgery residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and a cardiothoracic surgery residency at Stanford.

He has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School since 1971 and is now chief of cardiothoracic surgery.

Among other positions, he has been president of the National Library of Medicine’s Board of Regents, president of the American College of Chest Physicians, and chair of a multi-group task force on cardiac surgery.