[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 27, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E599]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            RECOGNIZING THE RETIREMENT OF DR. JOSEPH E. KUTZ

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                          HON. JOHN A. YARMUTH

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 27, 2016

  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the career of 
world-renowned surgeon and Louisville resident, Dr. Joseph E. Kutz, as 
he retires after 52 years of practice.
   For more than a half a century, Dr. Kutz has worked to help heal the 
lives and limbs of countless patients. Joining forces with a fellow 
accomplished surgeon, the late Dr. Harold E. Kleinert, in 1964, Dr. 
Kutz helped found what is now KentuckyOne Health's Kleinert Kutz Hand 
Care Center.
   Through the leadership of Dr. Kutz and his colleagues, Louisville 
has become the preeminent center for hand transplantation in the world 
and a city at the forefront of new medical technologies and progress. 
His commitment to our city runs deep, as Dr. Kutz has served as 
Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville's School 
of Medicine, past director of the Christine M. Kleinert Fellowship in 
Hand Surgery, past president of both the American Society for 
Reconstructive Microsurgery and the Greater Louisville Medical Society, 
and past treasurer for the International Society of Reconstructive 
Microsurgery.
   But in addition to his own practice, he has also worked throughout 
his career to help prepare more of his fellow surgeons for hand and 
microsurgery. His work with the Christine M. Kleinert Institute has 
helped train scores of surgeons and made the Kleinert Institute--and 
the city of Louisville--the place where many of the biggest and most 
important breakthroughs in hand surgery have occurred.
   Dr. Kutz has spent his life helping others, in and out of the 
operating room, and he will leave behind a field of medicine that is 
better off because of his hard work and vision. I thank Dr. Kutz for 
his devotion to this important medical field, for his passion in 
transforming the lives of his patients, and for his dedication to our 
community.
   On behalf of the people of Kentucky's Third Congressional District 
and the City of Louisville, I extend my best wishes to Dr. Kutz as he 
begins his much-deserved retirement.

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