Publications, Media and Events

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Upcoming publications and events

August 5, 2025 - “Addressing Gettysburg” Podcast, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

September 2, 2025 - Official release of Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew by Georgetown University Press.

September 11, 2025 - Jerry Goldstone Endowed Lectureship in Vascular Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.

Fall, 2025 - Publication of article, “Film and Filament: Early Techniques in the Surgical Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms,” in Journal of the British Society for the History of Medicine.

Fall, 2025 - Publication of article, “Compromised Command: Sleep Deprivation and Decision-Making at the Battle of Gettysburg,” in Gettysburg Magazine.

August 2-4, 2026 - Alexander J. Walt Memorial Lecture, Midwest Surgical Association Meeting, Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Past Publications and Events

Publications:

Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles Drew. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC. 2025.

“Stolen Heart: The DeBakey-Cooley Controversy.” Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. 2023.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael DeBakey. AudioBook edition. 2020 Oxford University Press, New York, NY. ISBN978-0-19-007394-7.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael DeBakey.” E-Book edition. 2020 Oxford University Press, New York, NY. ISBN978-0-19-007394-7.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael DeBakey.” 2019 Oxford University Press, New York, NY. ISBN978-0-19-007394-7.

 “Medical Pioneer DeBakey Broke Racial Barriers.” Houston Chronicle. November 24, 2019.

“Some Call Him America’s Greatest Surgeon, But Houston Medical Pioneer DeBakey Was More.” Houston Chronicle. November 22, 2019.

“Genesis of an Innovator: Michael E. DeBakey and the Development of the Sleeve-Valve Transfusion Syringe.” Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science 1(1) 2019.

Citation for Prof. Daniel Jaeck. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2018:103(11):68.

“The History of the Central Surgical Association: Part Two 1969-1991.” Surgery, 2018:164(4):620-625. 

“The History of the Central Surgical Association: Part One 1940-1968.” Surgery, 2018:164(4):614-619. 

“A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. – The Tulane Years.” Circulating Now. The Journal of the National Library of Medicine. February 2018.

“Rudolph Matas: Learned Trailblazer.”" Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. April 2016: 101(4):43-44.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D.” 2014 American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL. ISBN 978-0-9846699-7-4.

The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century.” E-book edition. 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library, Ann Arbor, MI.

The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century.” Chinese edition. 2009 People’s Military Medical Press, Beijing, China. ISBN: 978-4-263-20640-9.

“The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century.” Japanese edition (Translation: Yoshifume Tanaka). 2008 Ishikayu Publishing, Tokyo, Japan. ISBN: 978-4-263-20640-9.

 The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century.” Paperback edition 2008 Blue Dolphin Publishing, Grass Valley, CA. ISBN: 1-57733-228-2.

 The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century.” 2004 Blue Dolphin Publishing, Grass Valley, CA. ISBN: 1-57733-115-5.

 

Presentations:

“If I Ever Meant Business, I Mean it Now”: Charles R. Drew in Canada, The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Winston-Salem, NC – March 2024.

The Case of the Purloined Heart: Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, and the Implantation of the First Total Artificial Heart, British Society for the History of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales – September 2023.

Decadus Mirabilis: Michael E. DeBakey and the Decade that Made Vascular Surgery (Keynote Speech), 11th Annual Department of Surgery Research Day and DeBakey Society Alumni Symposium, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, TX – June 2023.

Legends and Friends: Michael DeBakey and Alton Ochsner (Michael E. Trotter Lecture), Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA – August 2022.

Legends in Uniform: Michael DeBakey, Robert M. Zollinger, and the Surgical Consultants in World War Two, Columbus Surgical Society, Columbus, OH – June 2022.

A Legacy of Excellence: Michael DeBakey and Research at Baylor COM (Keynote Speech), 9th Annual Department of Surgery Research Day, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, TX – June 2021.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey (History Keynote Address), American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress – October 2020.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey: World War Two (Keynote Speech), The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, New Orleans, LA – March 2020.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey: Europe (Keynote Speech), Texas Surgical Society, Galveston, TX – October 2019.

Through a Distant Lens: The Early Life of Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. (Keynote Speech), Houston Methodist Hospital Centennial Celebration, Houston, TX – May 2019.

Chasing the Old Demon: The Conquest of Aortic Aneurysms, 1950-1957, The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Augusta, GA – March 2019.

The Case of the Purloined Heart: Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, and the Implantation of the First Total Artificial Heart, The American Osler Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA – May 2018.

The Central Surgical Association: The First 75 Years, The Central Surgical Association, Columbus, OH – March 2018.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. – The Tulane Years, The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Augusta, GA – February 2018.

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. (Bullit Lecture in Medical History), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC – November 2017.

Chance Favors the Mind Prepared: The Discovery of the Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome and the Birth of Gastrointestinal Endocrinology, The American Association for the History of Medicine, Nashville, TN – May 2017.

La Grand Z: La Vie de Robert M. Zollinger, M.D., Academie Nationale de Chirurgie, Paris, France – March 2017.

The Atlas of Surgical Operations: Defining the Practice of General Surgery for Seven Decades (History Keynote Address), The American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL – October 2015.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D., Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA – May 2015.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D. (James V. Warren Memorial Lecture), Medical Heritage Center, The Ohio State University Wexner College of Medicine, Columbus, OH – April 2015.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D., Central Surgical Association, Chicago, IL – March 2015.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D., Columbus Surgical Society, Columbus, OH – February 2015.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D. (Surgery Grand Rounds), St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN – November 2014.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D., American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA – October 2014.

The Big Z: The Life of Robert M. Zollinger, M.D. (Ellison Postgraduate Surgery Course), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH – September 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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