Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

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D r. Stanley John Dudrick is a renowned and decorated surgeon, research scientist and educator. Dr. Dudrick graduated with honors and received a Bachelor of Science from Franklin &Marshall College in 1957. He continued his education, earning an MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. That same year, he started his career as an intern and general surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. From 1967 to 1972, he gained additional experience practicing complex reoperative surgery while serving as professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and chief of surgery at the Philadelphia VA hospital. Dr. Dudrick continued to progress in his career as a surgeon and educator, obtaining positions at several institutions, including The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, the Yale University School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, the

StanleyJohnDudrick, MD,FACS, FACN Surgeon, Research Scientist, Educator Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Scranton, PA

Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Misericordia University, where he was the Robert S. Anderson Endowed Chair, and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He has also gained experience as director of medical education, senior attending surgeon, and chairman of surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital. Dr. Dudrick has earned many distinctions in his career as a surgeon, including founding the department of surgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston as its first professor and chairman; and then conceiving, planning, founding, and initiating Life Flight, the first acute care helicopter ambulance service in the United States, at Hermann Hospital. He also invented new techniques for intravenous feeding and anticholesterol therapy, and developed total parenteral nutrition, as well as techniques, principles and practices for safe central venous catheterization and long-term catheter implantation. He founded the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and facilitated the integration of the Bridgeport Hospital training program in surgery with the Yale training program in surgery. He has recently been acknowledged as one of the 50 most influential physicians in history.

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