[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 138 (Saturday, October 28, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1980]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   ROFEH INTERNATIONAL HONORS MR. ARNOLD ZALTAS AND DR. TATSUO HIROSE

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 26, 2000

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, it has been my distinct 
honor over the years to take note of the extraordinary valuable work 
done by Rofeh International, in conjunction with the New England 
Chassidic Center led by Grand Rabbi Levi Horowitz. Grand Rabbi 
Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe as he is known, is a very distinguished 
scholar in the field of medical ethics, in addition to his eminence as 
a scholar of Judaism. Rofeh facilitates making the superb medical 
treatment that is available in Boston to people from all over the 
world, and if it were not for Rofeh, a large number of people who have 
benefitted from this medical treatment would not have been able to do 
so.
  As part of their effort, Rofeh and the New England Chassidic Center 
have an annual dinner, at which they honor people who have been 
particularly distinguished in their service to this wonderful cause. 
This year Rofeh will honor two men. Arnold Zaltas and Tatsuo Hirose.
  Dr. Hirose was born in Japan, and graduated from Kanazawa University 
School of Medicine there in 1961. His initial visit to the United 
States was 1965 when he was awarded with the Fulbright Fellowship, 
which allowed him to study clinical electrophysiology in vision at the 
Department of Ophthalmology, Cornell Medical School in New York. This 
happened when he was in the third year in the Postdoctoral School in 
Medicine in Kanazawa University. After spending three years in Cornell, 
he went back to Kanazawa and finished Postdoctoral School in 
Ophthalmology at Kanazawa University where he was awarded Doctor of 
Medical Science in 1969. He came to the Schepens Retina Associates, 
Retina Foundation (now called Schepens Eye Research Institute) and 
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for training and studying the 
surgery of the retina in the spring of 1969. He became a member of 
Schepens Retina Associates in 1973 at the same time he continued 
conducting research in studying functions of the retina at the Schepens 
Eye Institute, Harvard Medical School. He has been specializing in 
difficult complex retinal detachments, such as surgical failures in 
adults and children. He is particularly interested in infant and 
children's retinal detachment particularly in premature born babies. He 
published more than 140 papers in scientific medical journals, edited 
two books, including the most recent one: Schepens Retinal detachment 
and allied diseases. He contributed 23 book chapters. He received a 
Research to Prevent Blindness award, honor award of American Academy of 
Opthalmology, Senior Honor Award of American Academy of Ophthalmology, 
The Paul Kayser International Award of Merit in Retina Research. He has 
been selected in the Best Doctors in America 1996-1997, and Boston's 
Best Doctors in Boston Magazine, 1999. At present, he is a Clinical 
professor in ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, senior Clinical 
Scientist as Schepens Eye Research Institutes, and Surgeon at the 
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
  Arnold I. Zaltas is a partner in the Natick firm of Zaltas, Medoff & 
Raider, where he concentrates in estate planning, real estate and 
banking law.
  He is a Trustee and General Counsel to the Middlesex Savings Bank, 
and serves as a Director of the Natick Visiting Nurse Association. He 
has served as Trustee of the Leonard Morse Hospital. Mr. Zaltas is a 
graduate of the Boston University School of Law, is past President of 
the Boston University Law School Alumni Association, and a recipient of 
the School of Law's Silver Shingle Award in recognition of outstanding 
service to the School. He is a Trustee of Temple Israel of Natick, 
where he was the recipient of the Maurice Geshelin Humanitarian Award.
  Arnold is a long-time resident of Natick, where he resides with his 
wife, Brenda. They have three children: A. David Zaltas, an attorney, 
Mandi M. Kunen, an ophthalmologist, Marjorie Rubin, an attorney, and 
three grandchildren.
  Arnold Zaltas and Tatsuo Hirose deserve hearty congratulations for 
the excellent work they do. Being recognized by Project Rofeh is a 
great honor, and I am pleased to take this opportunity to salute the 
work of this important organization of these two men.

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