Medical Milestones
Meet Wesleyan surgeons who have played a major role in
improving the quality of their patients’ lives by staying at the forefront of
medical research in their fields and by testing uncharted medical ground.
Ophthalmologist Arthur Geltzer specializes in treating patients with macular
degeneration, using laser surgery. (Macular degeneration is a deterioration of a
portion of the retina that impairs the vision of millions of people, and is the
most common cause of blindness in people over age 55.) Laman Gray is an
internationally known cardiac surgeon and a leader in the development of
artificial hearts and circulatory support systems. He was part of the surgical
team that implanted the world’s first implantable replacement heart in 2001
and has since performed many of these high-risk operations on patients who have
end-stage heart disease.
Presenters: Arthur I.
Geltzer, MD ’58, an ophthalmologist in private practice in Providence, Rhode
Island, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Brown University; Laman A. Gray
Jr., MD ’63, P ’92, P ’99, Professor of Surgery and Director, Division of
Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Louisville School of
Medicine
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