Professor Louis Francois Hollender

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Professor Hollender was born on 15 February 1922 in Strasbourg. He studied medicine in Strasbourg, in Freiburg (im Breisgau) as well as in Paris. He had his surgical training at the Department of Surgery at Strasbourg University with Professor Weiss as his master. He passed his thesis in 1955 and was named qualified professor in 1964 and then professor with tenure a few years later. He was the head of the Department of General and Digestive Surgery at Louis Pasteur University in 1970, a position that he held until 1991 when he was named emeritus professor. Soon from the beginning of his professional life, his aim was the acquisition of solid international experience in modern surgery, something that led him to live several “academic years” abroad, visiting almost the entire world. This is how he worked in the department of Sir Price Thomas in London as well as in the department of Professor Clarence Crafoard in Stockholm. As a grant holder of the French state and Fulbright fellow, he went to several well-renowned university departments in the USA where he received intensive training in cardiovascular, endocrine and digestive surgery. …