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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Sherwin Nuland
As a practicing surgeon, Dr. Sherwin Nuland treated more than 10,000 patients and witnessed life and death in every variety. Then he began writing, about life and death, our minds, morality, aging and the human spirit. His most recent book, The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside, was published in April 2009.
Dr. Nuland has authored more than 10 books, including How We Die, which was on the New York Times best seller list for 34 weeks, won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. He also has contributed articles to New England Journal of Medicine, The New Yorker, Time, TV Guide, National Geographic and Self.
A graduate of New York University and the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Nuland trained in surgery at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, practiced there for more than 30 years and continues to teach bioethics and medical history to undergraduates and medical students.
Currently, Dr. Nuland is clinical professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine and fellow of the university's Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He serves on the executive committees of Yale's Whitney Humanities Center and its Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project.
Dr. Thom W. Rooke
Dr. Thom W. Rooke returns to the Cardiology Millennium Conference following his hit appearance in 2005 with "Everything I Know About Vascular Disease I Learned from Reading Kids' Books." This year, Dr. Rooke will address "The Seven Blunders of the Vascular World."
Dr. Rooke obtained a BS in physiology at the University of Michigan and an MD at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. After completing internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine residencies at Mayo Clinic, he joined the vascular medicine section at Mayo. He is the Krehbiel Professor of Vascular Medicine and founder of the Mayo Clinic Wound Care Center.
Dr. Rooke serves on a number of national boards, committees and societies and he has a long history of service to the Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM), of which he is currently president. Dr. Rooke's interests include medical writing: fact and fiction, peripheral vascular medicine, varicose veins, swollen limbs and the art of the medical lecture.
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