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April 2001
Volume 65 |
Number 4
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WHAT'S NEW
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Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology: WLM Dedicates Curator's
Room in John Lundy's Honor
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Douglas R. Bacon, M.D., Trustee
Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM) and ASA dedicated
the curator's office in a ceremony presided over by President
Neil Swissman, M.D., at ASA headquarters on Friday, March 2, 2001.
The late John W. Pender, M.D., who died February 18, 2001, made
a most generous gift this past December to endow the room in memory
of his mentor, John S. Lundy, M.D., and to recognize the Mayo
Clinic's contribution to anesthesiology. The donation was also
intended to help maintain the WLM's Living History Collection,
named in Dr. Pender's honor. We will remember John W. (Bill) Pender
for the many things that he did to make the field of anesthesiology
better for all of us, said friend Elliott V.
Miller, M.D.
Dr. Lundy arrived at the Mayo Clinic in 1924 at the invitation
of William Mayo to teach regional anesthesia and anatomy. Dr.
Lundy seized this opportunity and turned the department of anesthesiology
at the Mayo Clinic into one of the few centers of postgraduate
education in anesthesiology before World War II. In the late 1920s,
Dr. Lundy described and popularized the use of barbiturates in
anesthetizing patients. Dr. Lundy was also a founding member of
the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and the president of
the Section on Anesthesiology of the American Medical Association
for the first 14 years of its existence.
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From left, ASA President Neil Swissman,
M.D., is joined by Mark A. Warner, M.D., and Alan
D. Sessler, M.D., in hanging the plaque to commemorate
the late John S. Lundy, M.D.
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Many other distinguished anesthesiologists have trained and taught
at the Mayo Clinic. Seven of these physicians have become presidents
of ASA, 10 have been or are directors of ABA, three have been
awarded the ASA Distinguished Service Award and two have received
the ASA Excellence in Research Award. Nine members of the Mayo
department have served on the editorial board of Anesthesiology,
including one editor-in-chief, while five have served on the editorial
board of Anesthesia & Analgesia, with one of the five being named
editor-in-chief. These physicians will be commemorated in the
Mayo Clinic Room with a plaque bearing their names.
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Douglas
R. Bacon, M.D., is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. |
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John
W. Pender, M.D. - An Appreciation
By Elliott.V. Miller, M.D.
We will remember John W. (Bill) Pender, for the many things that
he did to make the field of anesthesiology better for all of us.
Bill gave of himself and always worked hard. He is the creator
and founder of the Living History series of the Wood Library-Museum,
and the collection now bears his name. Bill, along with John Leahy,
M.D., began the project about 30 years ago. Dr. Leahy had the
entire movie and video equipment, while Bill did the rest of the
work. Bill made a large and very generous contribution of $100,000
to endow this program and the Mayo Room and to honor John S. Lundy,
M.D. We also honor John W. Pender today for the foresight, generosity,
hard work and humanity that he brought to anesthesia.
He was born in Hesterville, Mississippi in 1912, the son of a
rural physician. Bill had gone by horse many times to attend to
patients with his father. He was the eldest child and often was
responsible for his siblings. He would set the Sunday newspaper
comics aside until he and his sisters had returned home from Sunday
school. After medical school at Tulane University, he returned
to practice in Mississippi.
In 1944, he gave local anesthesia to President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt for resection of a malignant growth during a cruise
aboard the presidential yacht on the Potomac River. He recalled
how important it was to make the public announcement after the
secret procedure that F.D.R. was fine and smoking a cigarette
immediately after the surgery.
Subsequently, he went to the anesthesiology department at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, joining the staff for a time
with Dr. Lundy. Bill was involved with the earliest work at Mayo
in developing anesthesia for open-heart surgery. In 1954, he went
to Palo Alto Medical Clinic where he practiced anesthesia for
the remainder of his active medical career.
Bill invented the open-drop vaporizer, called the "Pender Lemon,"
which fit an Adams tracheal tube adapter.
HONORS
1979 - First Clinical Professor of Anesthesia Emeritus at Stanford
1983 - Citation of Merit - Academy of Anesthesia
1984 - Honorary Degree - Tulane University, after 50 years as
an M.D.
For those in sorrow because of this loss, some words of comfort:
"Although much is lost, much still abides."
Much does abide: the Pender Living History collection; JW Pender's
video interview in 1983 (A gem!); and the work and place that
exists because of his donation.
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