[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 97 (Monday, July 12, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1516]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TRIBUTE TO DR. MYROSLAW M. HRESHCHYSHYN

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                            HON. JACK QUINN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 12, 1999

  Mr. QUINN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in memory of Dr. Myroslaw M. 
Hreshchyshyn, a medical scientist, a professor of gynecologic oncology 
and obstretics at the University of Buffalo Medical School, and a 
leader in the Ukrainian-American community in Western New York.
  I would like to read into the Record an article which appeared in the 
Buffalo News honoring the life of Dr. Hreshchyshyn.

       ``Dr. Myroslaw M. Hreshchyshyn, 71, a medical scientist and 
     professor of gynecologic oncology and obstetrics at the 
     University at Buffalo Medical School, died Monday (May 24, 
     1999) in Lviv, Ukraine, while working on a gynecology and 
     obstetrics textbook to be published there.
       He introduced the use of chemotherapy in gynecological 
     oncology in the United States in the 1960s and at the time of 
     his death was continuing an investigation he began in the 
     late 1980s on diagnosing osteoporosis.
       Born in Kovel (Volya), Ukraine, he finished his doctorate 
     at J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, 1951. He 
     served as an intern in Yonkers, did his residency at 
     Cumberland Hospital, Brooklyn, and was a clinic fellow in 
     gynecologic cancer at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn.
       He moved to Buffalo in 1957 after becoming a fellow in 
     chemotherapy at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He joined the 
     UB Medical School faculty in 1970 and served as chairman of 
     department of gynecology and obstetrics from 1982 to 1996.
       He also headed the gynecology and obstetrics departments at 
     Children's Hospital, Buffalo General Hospital, Millard 
     Fillmore Hospital and Erie County Medical Center until 1996. 
     He oversaw the Reproductive Endocrinology Center, which is 
     run by UB Medical School and Children's Hospital.
       He was a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and 
     Gynecology, founding chairman of the Gynecologic Oncology 
     Group from 1971 to 1975 and president of the Buffalo 
     Gynecologic and Obstetric Society from 1977 to 1978.
       Hreshchyshyn helped initiate the USAID American 
     International Health Alliance Medical Partnerships Program, 
     which exchanges medical personnel and information between two 
     hospitals in Lviv and Millard Fillmore Hospital. He also was 
     one of the investigators in the $10 million National 
     Institutes of Health-funded Women's Health Initiative at UB.
       He was a member of more than 20 professional associations 
     and societies and contributed much to civic and educational 
     organizations, especially in the Ukrainian-American 
     community.
       He and Lidia Warecha were married in 1958.
       In addition to his wife, survivors include two sons, Yuri 
     of South Buffalo and Adrian of Scottsdale, Ariz.; three 
     daughters, Marta Hreshchyshyn of Eagle River, Alaska, Nadia 
     McQuiggen of Amherst and Kusia Hreshchyshyn of Oakland, 
     Calif.; and four grandchildren.''

  Mr. Speaker, today I would like to join with the Ukrainian-American 
community, and indeed, all of Western New York to honor Dr. Myroslaw M. 
Hreshchyshyn. To that end, I would like to convey to the Hreshchyshyn 
family my deepest sympathies, and ask my colleagues in the House of 
Representatives to join with me in a moment of silence.

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