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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;134:1105-1108
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Editorial

2007 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Scientific Achievement Award Recipient: Gerald D. Buckberg, MD, DSc

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
^b Department of Cardiac Surgery, Norwood Clinic, Inc, Birmingham, Ala.

Received for publication July 16, 2007; accepted for publication July 24, 2007.

^_* Address for reprints: Friedhelm Beyersdorf, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hugstetterstr 55, D-79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. (Email: friedhelm.beyersdorf@uniklinik-freiburg.de).

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Dr Buckberg

"We find freedom by following our dreams!"

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Scientific Achievement Award, established in 1994 by the AATS, has honored individuals who have achieved scientific contributions in the field of thoracic surgery worthy of the highest recognition the Association can bestow. Dr Gerald Buckberg has been elected to be the sixth recipient of this Award, thus joining Drs Kirklin, Shumway, DeBakey, Cooley, and Carpentier.

Dr Gerald Buckberg is a man with many different talents, characteristics, ideals, and goals that together form the unique personality who gave so much for cardiovascular surgery and for the many persons who are lucky to know him well.

Dr Gerald D. Buckberg is a Distinguished Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a member of multiple surgical societies, including the AATS, the American Surgical Association, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

He is known for his seminal contributions in the field of myocardial protection and, more recently, for his work in cardiac failure. The unique intellectual basis for achieving the milestones in myocardial protection is broad and has eventually evolved into several principles that include independence (scientific, personal, and intellectual), persistence, focus, self-assurance, leadership, joy of generating new ideas, braveness, humor, and intense communication. Using this armamentarium, he is still able to produce a great variety of creative ideas and innovative methods that have more recently been applied to the field of heart failure, in which he has worked in elucidating the anatomy and pathophysiology of this condition more clearly. As a consequence of this latter work, Dr Buckberg has been appointed as a Faculty Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the Option on Bio . . . [Full Text of this Article]