About the Author
Henry J. Heimlich, MD, may have saved more lives over the course of his seventy-year medical career than any other living physician. A renowned thoracic surgeon, now retired, Dr. Heimlich was most recently president of the Heimlich Institute. His long distinguished career includes service as attending surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Hospital in New York, assistant clinical professor of surgery at New York Medical College, associate clinical professor of surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, director of surgery at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, attending surgeon at Deaconess Hospital, and professor of advanced clinical sciences at Xavier University. He has published numerous scientific papers in such prestigious venues as the
New England Journal of Medicine, the
Journal of the American Medical Association, Postgraduate Medicine, Chest, and more. His many honors and awards include the Albert Lasker Award, the American Academy of Achievement Award, the Maimonides Research Institute (of Haifa, Israel) Award, and induction into the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame and the Safety and Health Hall of Fame International.
Website: http://www.deaconess-healthcare.com/Heimlich_Institute/About_Dr._Heimlich/