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Tribute to Felicien Steichen

Dr. Felicien M. Steichen died in June, 2011. He was 84. He was a globally acclaimed pioneer in the use of suturing devices in minimally invasive surgery. Dr. Steichen co-authored three seminal works in surgical stapling with his colleague, Mark M. Ravitch. He also authored over 200 scientific papers, book chapters and monographs. He was fluent in English, French and German. We called him "Felix" and he was unreasonably modest for his great talents and accomplishments. It was said by everyone he taught that he was a virtuoso surgeon. Dr. Steichen was born in Luxembourg and graduated from the Medical School of the University of Lausanne. He was active and held office in more than a dozen European and American surgical societies. He was honored by the governments of France, Luxembourg, Germany and New York City (Mayor's 1986 Liberty Medal). A grant from the United States Surgical Corporation (Covidien) with whom he worked for decades, established an Endowed Chair of Surgery in his honor at New York Medical College. He served as Professor of Surgery at New York Medical College and achieved emeritus status in 2008. He formerly served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins' School of Medicine, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine. He was not only a wonderful friend of SAGES but someone on whose scientific shoulders we all stand. His contribution to surgery was enormous and, more important, he was a wonderful and modest human being.