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February 6, 2003

Safar to speak at honors convocation

Peter J. Safar, Distinguished Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at Pitt and a pioneer of modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation, will be the featured speaker at the Feb. 28 honors convocation at the Petersen Events Center.

Safar was founding chairperson of Pitt’s Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and founder of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research here. His current research involves suspended animation for delayed resuscitation — the lowering of body temperatures to such a point that patients can be treated and then resuscitated when surgery is complete.

“Dr. Safar is also a broadly engaged individual beyond his discipline,” Chancellor Mark Nordenberg told Senate Council this week. “In fact, we first met many years ago because of his commitments to, and involvements in, world peace through law.”


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