Pitt Tx surgeon to get street

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Legendary Pitt transplant surgeon to

get street sign

By The Tribune-Review

Wednesday, October

10, 2007

The

corner of Fifth Avenue and Lothrop Street in Oakland will be known as E. Starzl Way starting next week, the University of Pittsburgh Medical

Center announced.

On Monday, city officials and

the American Liver Foundation will honor the Pittsburgh transplant surgeon with a street sign, which will be added

to the street signs at the corner of the Oakland intersection at the heart of UPMC's

hospital complex. Starzl,

who is a professor of surgery at Pitt and director emeritus of the Pitt-UPMC Starzl Transplantation Institute, performed the first

successful liver transplant in 1967.

The 10:15 a.m. unveiling will

be followed by a performance from the Pitt Marching Band and speeches by Starzl, Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg and Suzanna Masartis, executive director of the Western Pennsylvania

Chapter of the American Liver Foundation.

With love, Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight, Whatever it Takes!

Son Ken (33) UC 91 - PSC 99 - Tx 6/21 & 6/30/07 @ Baylor in Dallas