Honors & Awards

• Class Valedictorian, Allderdice High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1960
• Phi Eta Sigma Honorary Scholastic Fraternity, University of Pittsburgh - l96l
• Special Academic Fellowship Program, University of Pittsburgh - 1961
• Alpha Epsilon Delta International Premedical Honor Society, University of Pittsburgh - 1962
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pittsburgh - 1963
• B.A., Magna cum laude, University of Pittsburgh - 1963
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, University of Pittsburgh - 1966
• Honorary Surgical Research Elective in Renal Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh - 1967
• President, Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity, University of Pittsburgh - 1967
• Clinical Fellow of American Cancer Society, The Johns Hopkins Hospital - 1969
• Winner, American Medical Writers Association, Third Annual Film Festival. Best Instructional Film, The Combined Collis-Belsey Operation - 1976
• Listed Among "The Best Medical Specialists in the United States" - Town and Country Magazine (May 1984) - 1984
• Medal of the City of Paris, France - for achievements in esophageal surgery - 1987
• University of Pittsburgh Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction - 1987
• Listed among "The Best Medical Specialists in the United States" - Town and Country Magazine (November 1989) - 1989
• Listed among "The 400 Best Doctors In America" - Good Housekeeping Magazine (March 1991) - 1991
• Listed among "The Best Doctors in America" - Woodward/White - 1993, 1994
• Selected honored member of the National Directory of Who's Who in Executives and Physicians - 1994-1995
• Listed among the "Best Doctors in America" - American Health (March 1996) - 1996
• Listed among "The Best Doctors in America" - Woodward/White, Inc. - 1997
• Inaugurated as first John Alexander Distinguished Professor of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan - November 1, 1996
• Recipient of Hench Alumnus Award, University of Pittsburgh - May 15, 1998
• Listed among "The Best Doctors in America" - Woodward/White, Inc. - 1999
• Listed among "The 318 Top Cancer Specialists for Women" - Good Housekeeping Magazine (March 1999) - 1999
• Listed among "America's Top Doctors" - Castle Connolly Medical Ltd - 2001
• Elected to honorary membership in the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons - September 18, 2001
• Listed among the "2002 Guide to Top Doctors" ? Center for the Study of Services (CSS) - 2002
• Listed among "Best Doctors - 2001-2002" - Best Doctors, Inc., Aiken. SC - 2002
• Listed among "Best Doctors" - Hour Detroit Magazine - 2002
• Listed among "America's Top Doctors", 3rd edition - Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. - 2003
• Recipient of the Annual Mitchell-Kiernan Foundation Award - Chevy Chase, Maryland - September 20, 2003
• Listed among "Detroit's Top Docs" - Hour Detroit Magazine - 2003
• Listed among "Best Doctors in America" - Best Doctors, Inc., Aiken, SC - 2003-2004
• Listed in "Guide to America's Top Surgeons" 2004-2005 Edition. Consumers' Research Council of America, Washington, D.C. - 2004
• Listed among "America's Top Doctors", 4th edition, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. - 2004
• Listed among "Detroit's Top Docs" - Hour Detroit Magazine - 2004
• Listed among "America's Top Doctors", 5th edition - Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. - 2005
• Listed among "Who's Who in American Education" 7th edition, Marquis Who?s Who - 2005
• Listed among "Detroit's Top Docs" - Hour Detroit Magazine - 2005
• Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Distinguished Service Award - 2006
• Listed among "Guide to America's Top Surgeons", 2006 edition - Consumers' Research Council of America - 2006
• Listed among "America's Top Doctors for Cancer" 1st edition, Castle Connolly Guide - 2006
• Induction into the Society of Scholars, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland - May 24, 2006
• Listed among "America's Top Doctors for Cancer" 2nd edition, Castle Connolly Guide - 2007