Dr. Tom Shires

[Errington Thompson]

Huge impact on surgical training.  He will be missed. 

E

Errington C. Thompson, MD, FACS, FCCM
Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
Author - Letter to America
Asheville, NC
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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org]
On Behalf Of KMATTOX at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:59 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Cc: SURGINET at listserv.utoronto.ca
Subject: Dr. Tom Shires

It is with deep sadness that I share with you the death of a giant of a  
surgical leader, Dr. G. Tom Shires.   He died in Las Vegas of  complications
of a 
fierce cancer two days ago.   
 
Dr. Shires made countless sentinel contributions to the surgical
literature, 
surgical research, surgical leadership, surgical education, and  organized 
surgery.   
 
He was one of the youngest surgical chairs ever, doing fantastic work in  
fluid and electrolytes and burn care.   He assembled one of the very  finest

surgical faculty ever while he was at Parkland in  Dallas.    His Dr.
Malcolm 
Perry was the first vascular fellow  ever.     He flew from Galveston to
Dallas at 
the time of  the Kennedy Assassination.    He operated on Lee Harvey
Oswald. 
    He went to Seattle where he was chairman at the  University of 
Washington, and later went to NYC where he established a fantastic  surgery
program.   
Later he moved to Lubbock Texas as Chair of the  Texas Tech Department of 
Surgery, and still later went to the University of  Nevada Department of
Surgery 
where he established a fantastic research  program.   He was president of 
numerous surgical professional  organizations.     
 
He was a fantastic surgeon, researcher, teacher, and friend.   
 
Kenneth L. Mattox, MD



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