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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996;111:905-906
© 1996 Mosby, Inc.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVESSAMUEL J. MELTZER (1851-1920)

J. Gordon Scannell, MD

Abstract

This profile of Samuel Meltzer is the first in a series of biographical sketches of early presidents of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery. The AATS, a creation of the New York Association for Thoracic Surgery and its president, Willy Meyer, held its first annual meeting in Chicago in June 1918, the height of the United States' participation in World War I. That it could do so and at the same time have both of its first two presidents be products of a German education, one Russian born and the other German born, speaks to its supranational character. The Association has held annual meetings since 1918 except for 1942, 1943, and 1945, when the United States was totally engaged in another world conflict. In 1995 the Association held its seventy-fifth annual meeting with its seventy-fifth president in the chair. Only one man has served two terms, Willy Meyer of New York, very much in at the creation. One president died in office, Richard Sweet of Boston, his place taken in 1962 by Jim Clagett of Rochester, Minnesota. Clagett had been elected vice-president, which in this Association is also president-elect. One man, Edward D. Churchill, elected in 1943, was unable to serve owing to army commitments. He was later reelected and served in 1949.






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