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News from the 2003 Clinical Congress
HONORARY FELLOWSHIP IN THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IS AWARDED TO FIVE PROMINENT SURGEONS CHICAGO - Honorary Fellowship in the American College of Surgeons was awarded to five prominent surgeons from Australia, Chile, Denmark, Ethiopia, and South Africa last night during Convocation ceremonies that preceded the opening of the College's annual Clinical Congress. The awards presentation was one of the highlights of the Clinical Congress, one of the largest international meetings of surgeons in the world. The recipients were as follows: -Marcus J. Killingback, AM, MS(Hon), FRACS, FRCS, FRCS (Ed). Doctor Killingback is a former general and colorectal surgeon, who helped establish the Edward Wilson Colon and Rectum Unit, the first unit of its kind in Sydney Australia, at Sydney Hospital. -Attila Csendes, MD, FACS. Professor Doctor Csendes is chairman of the department of surgery at the Clinical Hospital, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. -Henrik Kehlet, MD, PhD. Professor Kehlet is currently chief surgeon in the department of surgical gastroenterology at Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark. -E. Catherine Hamlin, AC, MBBS, FRCS, FRANZCOG. Dr. Hamlin is a co-founder and current chief executive director of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, in Ethiopia. -Sidney Cywes, OMSG, M. Med (Surg), FACS, FRCS, (Eng, Ed), FRCPS (Glas), FAAP (Hon), FCS (SA-Hon), DSc (UCT-Hon). Professor Cywes is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Presenting the Honorary Fellowships on behalf of the College were: Stanley M. Goldberg, MD, FACS, Minneapolis, MN; James C. Thompson, MD, FACS, Galveston, TX; Jonathan L. Meakins, MD, FACS, Headington, OX, United Kingdom; Maurice J. Webb, MD, FACS, Rochester, MN; and Bradley M. Rodgers, MD, FACS, Charlottesville, VA. Fellowship in the American College of Surgeons is awarded during the ceremonies to surgeons whose education and training, professional qualifications, surgical competence, and ethical conduct have passed a rigorous evaluation and have been found to be consistent with the high standards established and demanded by the College. During the College's Convocation ceremonies this year, 1,442 surgeons from around the world were admitted into Fellowship. With a membership of more than 65,000, the College is the largest organization of surgeons in the world. Sir Rickman Godlee, President of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), was awarded the first Honorary Fellowship in the College during the College's first Convocation in 1913. Since then, 383 internationally prominent surgeons, including the five chosen this year, have been named Honorary Fellows of the American College of Surgeons. # # # Note: More detailed information on each Honorary Fellow may be obtained from the College's Office of Public Information, 633 N. Saint Clair St., Chicago, IL 60611-3211; Phone: 312-202-5328; E-Mail: cpetty@facs.org.
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