November 29, 2001
Rescheduled Strauss Lecture will be Dec. 7
The Department of Surgery’s annual Strauss Lecture, rescheduled from its original date of Sept. 14, will be given next week by Dr. William Krupski, profesor and chief of vascular surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
He will speak on “Smoking: Impact in the New Millennium” at noon, Friday, Dec. 7, in Hogness Auditorium at the Health Sciences Center. The event is open to everyone.
As an outgrowth of his clinical and research interests in treating aneurysms (thin-walled bulges in arteries that can suddenly burst) and deep-vein thrombosis (clots that block blood flow) – both conditions related to smoking -Krupski has been working on ways vascular and general surgeons may be able to change smoking behavior in patients who have arterial disease.
Krupski is president of the Western Vascular Society and has won numerous teaching awards for medical student and resident teaching. He has been at the University of Colorado since 1991.
The lecture honors the late Dr. Alfred Strauss, a 1904 UW graduate who went on to earn an M.D. degree from Rush Medical College of Chicago. He began sponsoring surgical lectures at the UW School of Medicine in 1950. Today, sponsorship of the Strauss Lecture is maintained by Margery Friedlander, his daughter.
