Craig A. Reickert, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Encomium: Philipp Maria Lippe, MD, FACS, DABPM.

It is better to write an encomium than an obituary. There is no grief or regret. This will also give the subject the opportunity to protest in person all errors, omissions, and hyperbole. This is not, however, a pre-obituary. We look forward to working with Phil for many years. It will be necessarily brief and touch on only a few of his accomplishments. It will not include any anecdotes, especi...

Biography of Camran Nezhat, MD, FACOG, FACS

Camran Nezhat has influenced almost every aspect of our laparoscopic lives. His vision, perseverance, and humanistic focus have propelled our field away from the established yet awkward “single eye” and mostly diagnostic laparoscopy to his method of operative laparoscopy, which has revolutionized modern day surgery. Also, his prediction and claim that almost all open surgeries could be and shou...

A conversation with Craig Thompson.

Craig Thompson, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is a medical oncologist and immunologist who has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of how cells — from B and T cells to stem cells and cancer cells — survive and replicate. See the full interview at https://www.jci. org/videos/cgms to hear Thompson’s (Figure 1) stories about being a remedial reader, t...

Mbbs , Mrcs , Facs

Cancer of the large bowel is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States with the exclusion of skin cancers. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for the number of colorectal cancer cases in the United States for 2014 were 96,830 new cases of colon cancer and 40,000 new cases of rectal cancer.1 Surgeons play a critical role in the management of rectal ca...

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