[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 5256]
[From the U.S. 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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