The Twenty-Third Peter and Eva Safar Annual Lectureship in Medical Sciences and Humanities

Speaker

Lecture / Program

Date

Edward Lowenstein, MD (bio)

Ethics, Physicians, and Relief of Intolerable Suffering: Lessons from the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
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2003

Lyn Yaffe, MD (bio)

Future Medicine – Biomedical Technology Systems for Victims of Combat and Terrorism.

2002

Michal Schwartz, PhD (bio)

Protective Auto-Immunity after CNS Trauma and in Chronic Neurodegenerative Disorders: Aparadigm Shift.

2001

     

Peter and Eva Safar Annual Lecture in Medical Sciences and Humanities

This lectureship honors Peter Safar, MD, and his wife Eva for their professional and personal contribution to the scientific community.

Dr. Safar’s pioneering efforts and accomplishments in emergency medicine, critical care medicine, resuscitation research, and disaster reanimatology have saved countless lives and have gained international recognition. He initiated and served as chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he has been Distinguished Professor of Resuscitation Medicine since 1979. He founded the University of Pittsburgh’s International Resuscitation Research Center and served as its director for many years. In recognition of Peter Safar’s contributions to the field of resuscitation science, his successor renamed it the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research.

This lectureship, currently hosted by Patrick Kochanek, MD, director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, John Williams, MD, chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, and Mitchell Fink, MD, chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, was initiated by Peter Winter, MD, chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine from 1979 to 1996.

Past Safar Lecturers

John J. Bonica, MD 1980
John W. Severinghaus, MD 1981
Nicholas M. Green, MD 1982
*Hans A. Bethe, PhD 1983
James E. Eckenhoff, MD 1984
Victor F. Weisskopf, PhD 1985
Otto K. Mayrhofer, MD 1986
Ake N. Grenvik, MD, PhD 1987
Edmond I. Eger II, MD 1988
Freeman J. Dyson 1989
John Francis Nunn, MB, ChB, PhD 1990
Thomas Fredric Hornbein, MD 1991
Yung Shieh, MD 1992
John G. Wade, MD 1993
S. William A. Gunn, MD, MS 1994
Henrik H. Bendixen, MD 1995
Marcus E. Raichle, MD 1996
Donald P. Wolf, PhD 1997
*Bernard Lown, MD 1998
Bo Siesjö, MD, PhD 1999
John B. Anderson 2000
Michal Schwartz, PhD 2001
Lyn Yaffe, MD 2002
Edward Lowenstein, MD 2003

*Nobel Prize Winner

 
 
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