[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 19943]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO DR. BILL NASSER

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                            HON. MIKE PENCE

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 8, 2005

  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, the State of Indiana lost a giant of the 
medical community last week. On Friday, September 2, Dr. William Nasser 
passed away at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, where he started a 
cardiology program 32 years earlier.
  Bill Nasser's own battle with heart problems led him to launch a 
cardiology network in Indiana so that Hoosiers would no longer have to 
travel hundreds of miles just to receive basic care.
  As Bill graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 
1961, a bacterial infection made him an open-heart surgery patient at a 
time when the procedure was performed at great risk with low survival 
rates. His heart valve was replaced three times over the next 18 years.
  Bill's condition undoubtedly connected him with the very patients he 
served at the Care Group, a partnership with St. Vincent Hospital that 
runs the Heart Center of Indiana.
  Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the State of Indiana, I extend heartfelt 
sympathies to the family of Dr. Bill Nasser, specifically his wife 
Wanda; his sons Thomas and Tony Nasser; his daughter Teresa Carlock; 
his sisters Beverly Radez and Dolores Polifroni; and his five beloved 
grandchildren.
  Bill Nasser embodied the allegiance to a community that every town in 
America wishes of its citizens. The State of Indiana was fortunate to 
call him one of its own. Indiana will miss Dr. William Nasser.

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