Emeritus Professor Ronald J. Stoney Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

At the 60th Annual Vascular Meeting on June 1, 2006 in Philadelphia, more than 1,000 members of the Society of Vascular Surgery gathered to honor Ronald J, Stoney, M.D. with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Stoney is a Professor of Professor Emeritus of Surgery in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at UCSF and Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vascular Cures,The Foundation for Accelerated Vascular Research. "My professional career has always been about helping people faced with the threat of vascular disease, Stoney said. "As a surgeon, I was able to do a lot of innovative surgery for people who had difficult problems."