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In Memoriam: J. Alex Haller, Jr.

We have lost another one of APSA’s Founding Members and a past President, Dr. J. Alex Haller, Jr., who died June 13 surrounded by his family. Haller was the Children’s-Surgeon-in-Charge of Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1964 until 1997. He had a special focus...

In Memoriam – E. Thomas Boles, Jr.

Dr. Boles was a founding member of APSA. In 1969, he and Dr. Lucian Leape determined that pediatric surgery was sufficiently mature to have its own professional society. Within a year, they had organized a group of pediatric surgeons to create APSA.  Dr. Boles served...

New Surgical Oncology Resources

APSA’s Cancer Committee has added a new page to the website intended to facilitate ready access to frequently used references for common pediatric malignancies. In addition, the Renal Tumors handbook has been updated and a Germ Cell Tumors handbook has been...

In Memoriam – Aviva L. Katz

Aviva L. Katz, MD, died earlier this week. She was the director of the Consortium Ethics Program, corerFaculty in the Center for Bioethics and Health Law, and vice-chair of the Institutional Review Board at the University of Pittsburgh as well as the co-director of...