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| 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. |
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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