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Media Inquiries: 434-924-5679 U.VA. NEUROSURGEON NAMED PRESIDENT-ELECT OF AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS |
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Dr. Edward R. Laws, professor of neurosurgery, internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Virginia Health System, has been elected by the fellows of the American College of Surgeons to be president-elect of the prestigious association, founded in 1913 to improve the care of surgical patients. Laws would be the third U.Va. physician to head the ACS, following in the footsteps of Dr. R. Scott Jones and Dr. William H. Muller, Jr. Laws was elected to the post Oct. 23 during the 89th annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. He takes office as president in October of 2004. Laws became a fellow of the ACS in 1974. He has held many leadership positions in surgical organizations, including the American Pituitary Association, the Brain Surgery Society, the International Society of Pituitary Surgeons and the Society for Neuro-oncology. Laws also served as president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Pituitary Society and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and is the current president of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. Laws earned his M.D. at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he also did his internship and residency. Following residency, Laws served as a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins and was professor of neurological surgery at the Mayo Clinic and St. Mary’s Hospital in Minnesota. He then served as chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. before arriving at U.Va. in 1992. Laws was editor of the journal Neurosurgery and has been a member of the editorial boards of at least ten medical journals worldwide. He will be the fourth neurosurgeon to head the American College of Surgeons. November 3, 2003 |