Title:

Diary of My Trip to the USSR

Creator:

DeBakey, Michael E. (Michael Ellis), 1908-2008

Date:

[November-December 1959]

Description:

Here DeBakey chronicled his first visit to the Soviet Union December 15-20, 1958, where he attended a surgical conference and learned more about the state of surgical practice there. Despite the Cold War, DeBakey reached out to his colleagues in the USSR several times, to foster educational exchange as much as he could. In the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was asked to advise surgeons about the health of Russian president Boris Yeltsin.

Periodical:

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons

Publisher:

American College of Surgeons

Location:

Box: 16

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the American College of Surgeons.

Genre:

Articles
Diaries

Subject:

USSR

Format:

Text

Extent:

11 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. DeBakey, Michael E. "Diary of My Trip to the USSR." Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 44, ([November-December 1959]): 521-526. Article. Diary. 11 Images.. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons

Legacy ID:

FJBBJL

NLM ID:

101743405X133

Profiles Collection:

The Michael E. DeBakey Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X133

Story Section:

DeBakey as Medical Statesman