eeperay, January 19, 2006 .J^, Volume 16 | Number 2 Joining hands and voices Dr. Ellison dies at 89 Dr. Robert Gordon Ellison Sr., a retired from MCG in 1987 as stalwart of the Medical College of Charbonnier Professor of Surgery Georgia who helped revolutionize Emeritus and Chief of the Section of the field of cardiothoracic surgery, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery died Jan. 8 at age 89 at MCG. Emeritus. He was chief of general "Dr. Ellison's contributions as a thoracic surgery at the Veterans member of the MCG faculty are Affairs Medical Center in Augusta incalculable," said MCG President from 1987-1991. Daniel W. Rahn. "He was directly He contributed extensively to responsible for many of MCG's most MCG's teaching, research and groundbreaking achievements, and educational missions and performed he simply helped change the face of Georgia's first open-heart operation health care. He will be sorely in 1956. He worked closely with his missed." wife, Dr. Lois Taylor Ellison, whom Dr. Robert Ellison Dr. Ellison, the son of John he married in 1945 and who helped Gordon Ellison and Fredricka Fisher develop MCG's cardiopulmonary Association, the Georgia Surgical Ellison, was a native of Millen, Ga. laboratory for cardiac Society, the Georgia Thoracic He earned a bachelor's degree in catheterizations and pulmonary Society, the Georgia Tuberculosis Sharing a dream like the one the late Dr. Martin biology and chemistry from function studies. Association, the Southern Thoracic Luther King Jr. had for a united America, is the Vanderbilt University in 1939 and a His research contributions in the Surgical Association and the Society key to changing today's world, University System medical degree from MCG in 1943. cardiothoracic surgery field included of Thoracic Surgeons. He chaired the of Georgia Pegent Elridge McMillan told a full After completing an internship and improved modified techniques for American Board of Thoracic Surgery house in the Auditoria Center Jan. 13. As the residency at University Hospital and cardiothoracic surgery, investigation from 1979-81. He was a fellow of the guest speaker at the tri-college celebration MCG and a cardiopulmonary of pacemakers, long-term evaluation American College of Cardiology, the honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the physiology fellowship at Bellevue of mechanical versus tissue American College of Chest regent joined the over 400 attendees and the Hospital of Columbia University prosthesis, evaluation of methods of Physicians, the American College of choirs of Augusta State University, Paine College College of Physicians and Surgeons myocardial preservation during open Surgeons and the Southeastern and MCG in saluting Dr. King Ir. 's legacy. "We in New York, he joined the MCG heart surgery, long-term results of Surgical Congress. He was a member must dare to believe in our dreams and be faculty in 1947 as an instructor and surgery for coronary artery disease of the Alpha Omega Honor Society courageous enough to share them and work became professor of thoracic surgery and transplantation of the heart and and Sigma Xi. toward a common good," said Mr. McMillan. "Dr. and chief of the Section of Thoracic lung. His many awards included a King elevated our understanding of the power of a dream." and Cardiac Surgery in 1959. He was Dr. Ellison was a past president of School of Medicine Distinguished For the full story, visit www.mcg.edu/news/newsbriefs/MLK0113006.html. named Leon Henri Charbonnier the Augusta Area Tuberculosis Alumnus Award, School of Medicine Professor of Surgery in 1973. 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