Bryant Visiting Lectureship

The University of Michigan Department of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, announces the 2009 Milton F. Bryant Lecture by Bo G. Eklöf, M.D., PhD to be held on Friday April 3, 2009.

Bo G. Eklöf, M.D., PhD

Professor Bo G. Eklöf was born in Örebro, Sweden. After a few of days he was taken to his home in Bofors where he later learned to play ice hockey. He graduated from medical school at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1962, where he started his surgical training, and finished his residency in Borås 1968. The same year he took a research fellowship with Charles Rob, Seymour Schwartz and James DeWeese at the University of Rochester. He returned to the University of Lund in 1969 where he earned a Ph.D. in 1972 in brain blood flow and metabolism under David Ingvar and Bo Siesjö. From 1973 he was Associate Professor and chief of vascular surgery at the university hospital in Lund. From 1978-1981 he was chairman of surgery at the hospital in Helsingborg, affiliated with Lund. In 1981 Bo was elected Professor and Chairman of surgery at the new medical school at the University of Kuwait where he started a 5 year residency program in surgery. In 1987-1988 he was invited to the University of Marseille, France as visiting professor for a sabbathical year. In February 1991 he joined Robert L. Kistner, MD the pioneer for reconstructive venous surgery at Straub Clinic and Hospital in Honolulu, HI, where he was also medical director for Straub Foundation. From 1993 he was clinical professor of surgery at the University of Hawaii, and from 1998 chief of the Vascular Center at Straub. In June 2003 Bo and his wife returned to Sweden. In February that year he was elected as president-elect for the American Venous Forum, and he has since then been involved as an international ambassador for venous disease for this organization.

He has written 240 papers/reviews/editorials, 43 chapters, 417 abstracts and short papers, and edited 2 books. Bo is honorary member of the following societies: European Venous Forum, Swedish Vascular Society, Argentinian Society for Phlebology and Lymphology, The German Society for Phlebology, The French Society for Angiology, and The Chilean Society for Phlebology and Lymphology.