[TCT2007]Barry T Katzen获得2007年TCT 终身成就奖

　　2007年10月24日，Barry T Katzen 获得TCT2007终身成就奖，CRF主席Martin B Leon教授出席并颁奖，高度赞扬了Katzen教授在介入医学的开拓性工作，以及在研究和临床中杰出才智和贡献。Katzen教授是迈阿密医学院Baptist心血管研究所创始人和主任、放射科教授。

       Leon说和过去的获奖者一样Katzen教授在很多方面非常杰出，包括手术技巧、教育、学术和革新等。“在此刻我们庆祝首例冠状动脉成形术30周年，很多人可能忘记了首例外周血管成形术比Andreas Gruentzig 完成首例冠状动脉成形术提前了10余年，这对冠状动脉技术和设备发展产生过巨大的影响。Barry Katzen在微创介入治疗领域做出了杰出贡献，是最早血管腔内治疗技术的佼佼者，同时他也最早提出了血管性疾病多学科治疗的概念。做为一个微创治疗以及为广大患者提供费效比更好治疗措施的杰出的开拓者、教育和学者，他始终处于该领域的最前沿。”

　　Katzen教授介绍

　　1974年Katzen在意大利罗马放射研究所的Plinio Rossi教授之处完成了3个月博士后工作，在那里，他观摩了第一例以及早期的一些血管成形术。

        之后，他回到美国在Falls Church 的Alexandria医院工作。于1978年完成美国首例经皮血管成形术，同时他也是美国最早开展经颈静脉肝脏门体分流术、导管溶栓、带膜支架术以及冠状动脉成形术等的专家之一。

　　1995年Katzen帮助组建了血管内治疗论坛，这是首个循环系统疾病的交互式网站，他也是介入医学四种专著的主要作者。1987年他回到家乡迈阿密，组建Baptist心血管研究所，同时也是多个心血管介入治疗杂志的审稿人。目前他也致力于颈动脉支架和主动脉和胸主动脉瘤的腔内治疗。

　　Katzens发表了获奖感言，“感谢TCT组委会给我这个奖项，非常高兴能加入到心血管医学杰出开拓者的行列。感谢所有医生和同仁、护士和技师，还要感谢我职业生涯中我治疗过的病人，他们也是新技术的参与者，正如我以前经常提及的，为了开拓新技术病人要面临危险，而医生则不然，因此我们要时刻从病人角度着想，牢记一切要着眼于病人。”

　　（武警总医院　韩玮　编译）

Barry T. Katzen Presented with 2007 TCT Career Achievement Award

Prize recognizes Katzen’s outstanding contributions to interventional cardiology.

The TCT 2007 Career Achievement Award was presented to Barry T. Katzen, MD, in a ceremony yesterday afternoon. Martin B. Leon, MD, founder and chairman emeritus of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, presented the award, which recognizes pioneering work in interventional medicine and extraordinary talent and dedication in both research and clinical endeavors. Katzen, founder and medical director of the Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute and a clinical professor of radiology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, has forged a career that demonstrates distinguishing similarities with of past award recipients: operator skills, educator, academician, and innovator, according to Leon.

“In this celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first coronary angioplasty, many people forget that
non-coronary peripheral intervention began more than a decade before Andreas Gruentzig’s pioneering first
case and strongly influenced all facets of coronary technique and equipment development,” Leon said. “Barry Katzen is unique in the field of lesserinvasive catheter-based therapy in that he was a leader among that early group of endovascular therapists, but he also bridged the gap by being the first to embrace the concept of multidisciplinary management of vascular disease. He remains at the pinnacle of our subspecialty as an innovative firstin- man pioneer, educator, and consensus builder in making lesser-invasive therapies available and cost effective to the broadest range of physicians and patients.”

A history of firsts

In 1974, Katzen completed a threemonth post-doctoral fellowship under the direction of Plinio Rossi, MD, at
the Institute of Radiology at the University of Rome in Italy. During this period, Katzen saw some of the earliest angioplasties in the European patient care approach, and saw the first angioplasty in Rome.

When he returned to the United States, Katzen joined the staff at Alexandria Hospital in Falls Church, Va. It was there, in 1978, that Katzen performed the first percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in the United States. Over the years, he also was among the first to perform a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure, catheter-directed lysis, abdominal endografts, and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in the United States.

Katzen also organized the first live interventional teaching course in the United States. In 1995, he helped create the Endovascular Forum (http:// www.endovascular.org), one of the first interactive websites for physicians on the topic of circulatory diseases, and he is the co-author of four textbooks in interventional medicine.

Katzen moved to his hometown of Miami in 1987 and become the founder and medical director of Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute in Miami, and Clinical Professor of Radiology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is also the founding editor of the peer-review journal Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology and is currently one of the chief medical editors of Endovascular Today. He is presently involved in the development of carotid artery stents and stent-grafts to repair aortic and thoracic aneurysms.

“I’d like to thank the organizers of TCT for bestowing this honor on me and making me part of such an incredibly distinguished group of pioneers and contributors to cardiovascular medicine who preceded me,” Katzensaid. “I want to thank all the physicians and partners, nurses and technicians,and all of the patients I’ve treated through the course of my career to date because they are the ones frequently who are the pioneers. I’ve always said … ‘remember it’s the patient taking the risks.’ You’re not really taking the risk when you’re pioneering and doing the first of anything. As we in our own practices do our own firsts every day it’s very important to consider it from the patient’s point of view. Remember, patient care is the most critical thing.”

Past achievements and positions

Katzen is a board member of Baptist Hospital of Miami Foundation; he has served as chairman of the
American Heart Association’s Council of Cardiovascular Radiology; he is a fellow and past president of the Society of Interventional Radiology; and a member of the North American Chapter of the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. Last year, Katzen received the Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology’s Gold Medal for lifetime achievement.

While in practice at Alexandria Hospital, Katzen also served as a consultant for the National Institutes of
Health, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He was
Director of Resident Research and a Clinical Professor of Radiology at George Washington University Medical School.

Katzen graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1970 and completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at the New York Hospital- Cornell University Medical Center. A public spotlight focused on Katzen in September 2005 when he served as a member of Vice President Dick Cheney’s surgical team to repair a popliteal aneurysm by stent implantation at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.