SLIDES & TRANSCRIPTS
Friday, December 5, 2003

Huggins Medal Presentation

Ian Thompson, M.D., Joseph A.Smith, M.D.

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As the past president of the Society of Urologic Oncology it is one of my responsibilities, in fact, it is my sole responsibility to head the Awards Committee and the society has developed several awards to honor members of our group and others who are deserving of these but our most prestigious award is the Huggins Medal and this is considered the highest honor that can be bestowed by the Society of Urologic Oncology and really goes to someone who has had lifelong contributions to both the art and science and in developing patient care for individuals with neurologic and cancer problems, and the Awards Committee takes this very seriously because we do consider it our most prestigious award and as the past president and the head of the Awards Committee I can tell you we actually had very little difficulty in deciding upon this year's awardee and to introduce him we are going to have the current president of the Society of Urologic Oncology, Dr. Ian Thompson.

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Certainly the picture that you see above here is arguably the most recognizable face in urology worldwide for perhaps 2 to 3 decades, and so it gives us great pleasure, and I am personally very pleased to have this opportunity to participate in this process.

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I have just a brief background. Dr. Walsh was born in Akron , Ohio , attended Case Western University and Medical School under the Knight Foundation scholarship. While there he met his bride. Peg could not be here unfortunately because of the weather being so bad and so we send her our very best and we are sorry that she could not be here.

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His initial training in surgery was at Peter Bent Brigham and he was influenced early by Dr. Harrison who is the Elliot Carr Cutler Professor of Surgery and Director of Neurology as well as many other individuals there and under whose influence he began his training in urology at UCLA under icons of urology, Drs. Goodwin and Joseph Kaufman.

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Following his residency at UCLA he fulfilled a 2-year tour at Naval Hospital in San Diego and shortly thereafter at the dawn of his career was offered the position of professor and director of urology at James Buchanan Brady Urologic Institute.

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Prior to moving to Baltimore, and it gives me great pleasure in saying this, his initial tour was with Dr. Wilson at UT, Southwestern and those of you who are students of androgen metabolism if you go back to the original description of 5-alpha-reductase, Dr. Walsh finds himself solidly among the members of the description of that.

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The accomplishments of this gentleman are truly extraordinary. We certainly know him worldwide for pioneering anatomic nerve sparing radical prostatectomy. He described 5-alpha-reductase deficiency. He is on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, Editor in Chief of Campbell 's Urology which by itself is a job, member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, published well over 400 papers, authored several books. The list is unending

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and virtually any organization that has anything to do with urology or oncology has bestowed upon him their highest awards, a member of AOA. He has received the Gold Cystoscope Award from the AUA in 1978, the Triennial Eugene Fuller Prostate Award from the AUA, the Ramon Guiteras Lecture for the AUA in 1993, the Barringer Medal which is one of the most prestigious medals of the American Association of GU Surgeons in 1995, the Hugh Hampton Young Award from the AUA in 1996 and another one outside the area which is the Charles F. Kettering Medal from the General Motors Foundation in 1996, one of the most prestigious awards in science in the United States,

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and so, he certainly has perhaps the most recognizable fact in urology for the last two decades and certainly for the foreseeable future.

It gives us great pleasure to acknowledge Dr. Walsh, his contributions to the art and the science as well as his contributions to the Society of Urologic Oncology with the Huggins Medal and I would like to ask Dr.Walsh and Dr. Smith to come out front and Dr. Smith will give Dr.Walsh the Huggins Medal.

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