2024 AUA History Annual Meeting Preview
We look forward to welcoming all AUA attendees at the 2024 AUA History Exhibit, "Onward and Upward, Celebrating Black Urologists in America" at Booth #330 in the Science and Technology Exhibit Hall in San Antonio, curated by Arthur (Bud) Burnett, MD and a curatorial team. See the Schedule of ALL History Events at the meeting!
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Urologic Connections: Dr. Harvard Hersey Crabtree
Early this year, the Didusch Center for Urologic History received a biography of an early AUA member, Dr. Harvard Hersey Crabtree, compiled by his grandson, Stephen Jones, and Dr. David Bloom. We were particularly excited because one of our favorite artifacts in the museum was donated by Dr. Ralph Emmott in 2006 with a story about Dr. Crabtree.
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A Pathologist Receives the 2024 William P. Didusch Art & History Award
Dr. Jennifer Gordetsky is receiving the WPD Art and History Award this year and has shared her story with both AUANews and the Scope of Urology Newsletter. As she does with her popular Annual Meeting History Game, "Lies, Damn Lies and Medical History," Dr. Gordetsky brings her whole funny self to the project. Wherever you see it, be sure to read how and why she is getting this Award.
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AUA Historian Ron Rabinowitz, MD, FACS
Dr. Rabinowitz was featured in an AUANews article written by many longtime urology history contributors.
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Roy J. Correa, MD (1932 – 2023)
Dr Correa was known to be a deft surgeon, acute diagnostician, indefatigable, fearless, and with high ethical standards. He championed urology as a premiere specialty in the practice of medicine. His personal medical interests included prostate cancer and urinary obstruction. He was one of the first to recognize and publish the divergent outcomes of patients with focal versus diffuse low-grade prostate cancer, thus identifying a subset of patients with this disease who did not require immediate aggressive treatment.
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Sam D. Graham, MD (1920-2023)
Sam Dixon Graham, MD, 102, of Richmond, Va., died July 2, 2023, five months after the death of Jane O’Neill Graham, his wife of almost 77 years. They both served during World War II.
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Sushil S. Lacy, MD, FACS (1936-2023)
Dr. Lacy was well known and admired for his teaching skills by medical students, nurses, and residents. He was a passionate advocate for his patients and was grateful for the appreciation and love he received, especially from parents of children who were his patients. He was highly respected by his medical colleagues as a surgeon. He was an avid traveler and photographer. Starting at an early age and throughout his life, he ventured to all the continents several times. His wife Jane accompanied him on most of his trips. Dr. Lacy was generous and kind.
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Guy W. Leadbetter, MD (1926-2022)
Dr. Guy Leadbetter was passionate about his work in the medical world. He cared deeply for his patients, nurses, and colleagues. He was well-known worldwide as a surgeon and inventor of several surgical techniques. Dr. Leadbetter and his wife of seventy-two years, Nadia, shared an adventurous life together. Nature, conservation, skiing, biking, photography, backpacking and camping were among their many passions. Family always came first.
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Emil A. Tanagho (1929 – 2024)
Dr. Tanagho was born in Tahta, Egypt on August 12, 1929. He received his medical degree from the University of Alexandria in January 1952 and did his internship and urology residency training there. He came to the University of California, San Francisco, as a research urologist from February 1963 to August 1964, and then returned to the University of Alexandria as an Assistant Professor. Discouraged with the political climate in Egypt at that time, he managed to emigrate with his family to the United States in August 1966.
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