J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:1245-1246
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
David Bernt Skinner (1935-2003): a thoracic surgeon and something more*
Nasser K. Altorki, MDa,*
a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Received for publication March 20, 2003; accepted for publication March 24, 2003.
* Address for reprints: Nasser K. Altorki, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA
nkaltork@med.cornell.edu
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Friday, the 24th of January, 2003, witnessed the passing of one of the icons of American surgery. As fate would have it, David Skinner slipped out of this world lying peacefully in the "the house that Dave built": the Maurice and Corinne Greenberg Pavilion of the New York–Presbyterian Hospital. Those "in the know" will immediately recognize that the last sentence alone was a decade’s worth of hard work and unrelenting drive. That drive began in the midwestern town of Joliet, Illinois, where David Bernt Skinner was born on April 28, 1935. He graduated from Franklin High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and earned his BA at the University of Rochester in 1956. With a medical degree from Yale and surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital (with 1 year in Bristol, England), he was poised to make his mark on American surgery. What followed was a meteoric rise from assistant professor in 1968 to full professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins in 1972. Shortly thereafter and at . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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