[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 101 (Friday, July 16, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1573]
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                            DR. BRUCE SOMMER

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 16, 1999

  Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, Dr. Bruce Sommer has impeccable academic and 
surgical credentials with honors, ranging from Phi Beta Kappa to the 
American College of Surgeons; Alpha Omega Alpha; Phi Sigma for Biology; 
Chi Episilon Mu for Chemistry; and Phi Sigma for Philosophy.
  Dr. Sommer, a native New Yorker, was born on October 5, 1948, and 
received his M.D. degree and internship at the University of Minnesota 
Medical School in 1974. He is presently the Attending Surgeon Chief in 
the Division of Transplantation at the University Hospital of Brooklyn 
with prior hospital appointments that include Kings County, Ohio State 
University's liver transplantation unit, St. Paul Ramsey Medical 
Center's Burn Center, and the Minneapolis Veterans Administration 
Hospital.
  His professional memberships number over twenty, American Society of 
Transplant Surgeons, American Medical Association, American College of 
Surgeon Fellows, New York Surgical Society, National Kidney Foundation, 
not to mention the founding member of the cell transplant society in 
1991.
  Given this illustrious professional background, it is difficult to 
describe a more exemplary model of a research fellow. Dr. Sommer is 
renowned for his funded research in acute hepatic failure, minority 
tissue transplant, and cellular transplantation for enzymatic and 
metabolic deficiencies. Moreover, Bruce was the principal investigator 
at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Institute engaging in the phase 
III Study of Acute Renal Graft Rejection with Deoxyspergulin.
  This exceptional man of healing lives in Harrison, New York with his 
family. The dedication and sensibility he brings to the medical 
profession is unparalleled here in Brooklyn. I would like my colleagues 
on both sides of the aisle to join me in commending Dr. Sommer for his 
achievements.

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