From Stroma to Scalpel: Celebrating a Mentor in Science and Surgery

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It is a tremendous honor to participate in this celebration of Dr Norton’s extraordinary career. Let me first start by expressing my gratitude to Drs Mary Hawn, Electron Kebebew, and George Poultsides for creating a fantastic festschrift event on Stanford University campus 13–14 October 2023. Next, I would like to acknowledge Dr. Norton’s family—his wife Cathy, his children, Tim, John, Meg, and Patrick, and grandchildren, Molly, Jack, and Frank—to thank them for supporting Dr. Norton and sharing him with the surgical community and particularly Stanford Surgery for many years. I am a recent graduate of the General Surgery Residency Program at Stanford and celebrate Dr. Norton as a leader in the Department of Surgery, a clinical and research mentor, a member of my PhD committee, and most fundamentally as a role model surgeon—scientist. …