Three Prominent Surgeons Honored by American College of Surgeons

Three prominent surgeons from Japan, Finland, and Germany were awarded honorary fellowship in The American College of Surgeons (ACS) during the association's 2001 Clinical Congress in New Orleans (LA, USA). The recipients were as follows:

Pekka Hayry, M.D., Ph.D., professor of transplantation surgery and immunology at the Haartman Institute at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Minoru Hirano, M.D., Ph.D., president of Kurume University in Kurume, Japan.

Albrecht FW Encke, M.D., FACS, professor of surgery at the University of Frankfurt am main Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat in Frankfurt, Germany.

Fellowship in the American College of Surgeons is awarded to surgeons whose education and training, professional qualifications, surgical competence, and ethical conduct have passed a rigorous evaluation and have been found to be consistent with the high standards established and demanded by the college. With a membership of more than 60,000, the college is the largest organization of surgeons in the world.




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