He Made Medical History
On Thanksgiving day, Army Dr. Col. Craig Shriver did what had never been done for a combat wounded soldier. The bullet-scarred pancreas from an Air Force Airman who was shot in Afghanistan was flown from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to the University of Miami, where insulin-producing cells were salvaged from the organ and flown back to be dropped into the man’s liver.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1383912.html
Army Dr. Craig Shriver, Chief of General Surgery, Walter Reed Army Medical Center photographed at a press conference 12/15 for McClatchy-Tribune