[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9992]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




A TRIBUTE TO HONOR RAYMOND LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, JR., M.D. ON THE OCCASION 
                           OF HIS RETIREMENT

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 27, 2017

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, Raymond Lawrence Sullivan, Jr., was born in 
San Francisco on October 4, 1942. He was the second of six children and 
grew up in San Francisco and Hillsborough. He has three living 
siblings, Phillip Sullivan, Mary Sullivan Ward, and Mother Agnes of the 
Cross, CJM, and his late sister, Sheila Sullivan Peterson. Larry was 
educated at St. Catherine's Grammar School in Burlingame, Bellarmine 
College Prep in San Jose, the University of San Francisco and the UCSF 
Medical School. He did his residency in Anesthesiology at Stanford, and 
served our country in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps from 1968 to 1970.
  Larry married Victoria Growney on August 13, 1966. Together they have 
five children: Larry Sullivan III; Kasey Sullivan Bradstreet, JD; 
Loretta Sullivan Chang, MD; Brian Sullivan; and Jason Lally, their 
foster child, who is part of their extended family. Their 
grandchildren, Liam, Andrew and Thomas Chang, Oscar Bradstreet and 
Harley, Riona and Raymond Lally bring them untold joy.
  Dr. Sullivan joined the medical staff of O'Connor Hospital as an 
anesthesiologist in 1975 and has served there until his retirement. 
From 1982 to 1988 he served as Clinical Assistant Professor of 
Anesthesia at Stanford University School of Medicine. At O'Connor 
Hospital he was Anesthesia Department Chair, a member of the Critical 
Care Committee, President of the Medical Staff, Member of the 
Hospital's Board of Directors, and Chair of the Medical Staff Advisory 
Committee. He was honored in 2011 with the Vincentian Spirit Award 
given by O'Connor Hospital.
  Dr. Sullivan has given generously of his time and talents to his 
professional community as a member of the Santa Clara County Medical 
Association, (CMA) the American Medical Association, the California 
Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA), the American Society of 
Anesthesiologists and the California Medical Association. He served as 
President of the CSA from 1999 to 2000, and from 1997 to 2006 he served 
on a Specialty Delegation to the CMA House of Delegates. He received 
the Distinguished Service Award from the CSA in 2009.
  Larry also served as a referee and coach of the American Youth Soccer 
Association in Palo Alto, and was Scoutmaster of Troop 57, Stanford 
Area Council, where he guided 35 Scouts to the rank of Eagle Scout.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring an 
extraordinary physician, a devoted son, husband, father, grandfather, a 
vital member of our community, and a treasured personal friend. Larry 
Sullivan is a man of integrity and he lives a life instructed by his 
faith. I have never met a finer human being and a finer family. How 
proud I am to call the Sullivan Family my friends and to have the 
privilege of representing them. I ask the entire House of 
Representatives to join me in wishing my dear friend Larry, a great and 
good man, and his devoted wife Vicki, every blessing that retirement 
has to offer, and we thank him for all he has done to strengthen our 
community and our country.

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