General Surgery Residency

Dept. of Surgery to Host Distinguished Visiting Professor

Lazar J. Greenfield (pictured left), Emeritus Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of MichiganDon Nakayama, M.D., Milford B. Hatcher Chair of Surgery and Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program at the Medical Center of Central Georgia and Mercer University School of Medicine has initiated a new CME-QI project on venous thromboembolism. The project began with the new academic year. Lazar J. Greenfield (pictured left), Emeritus Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Michigan, will be visiting professor at surgery grand rounds on September 8, 2011 at 7:30 a.m. in Joseph W. Eversole auditorium located at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. His topic will be: The Filter at 40: Lessons Learned.

Dr. Greenfield graduated from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his surgical training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is internationally known as the inventor of the Greenfield Vena Cava Filter, a device that has saved the lives of thousands with venous thromboembolism. He is also Editor-in-Chief of a major textbook in surgery. The medical community is invited to come out and hear this gifted innovator in the field of venous thromboembolism.