About J. Bradley Aust, MD, MS, PhD:
Dr. Aust, Professor Emeritus of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio Department of Surgery (ret. 1998) was appointed as the first chair of the Department of Surgery in 1966 at the age of 40. He earned his MD from the University of Buffalo in 1949, interned and trained in surgery, both general and thoracic, at the University of Minnesota under the tutelage of Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. Dr. Wangensteen was noted for his training of academic surgeons as skilled in the research laboratory as in the operating room, and trained over 30 chairs of surgery. Dr. Aust was one of the last trained by Dr. Wangensteen before Dr. Wangensteen's retirement in 1967.
On his acceptance of the position of Chair of the Department of Surgery in 1966, Dr. Aust enticed a cadre of Minnesota surgeons (Drs. Root, McFee, Rogers, Cruz, Story and Pestana[Mayo Clinic]) to join him in the enterprise of developing a Department of Surgery with teaching responsibilities for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Dr. Aust was the first chair of the Medical School Curriculum Committee. He and his colleagues accepted the commitment to maintain and develop graduate-training programs in general surgery and all major surgical specialties including neurosurgery, urology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT, plastic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and the surgical subspecialties of pediatric cardiac, transplant, vascular, trauma and surgical oncology.
Dr. Aust's research interests range from technical innovations, cancer chemotherapy, coronary artery bypass, and vascular reconstruction to hemicorporectomy.
Dr. Aust accomplished an impressive and history-changing list of surgical 'firsts':
- 1st use of radioactive iodine 131 albumin for total blood volume determination (1950)
- 1st conceived of coronary artery bypass using internal mammary artery anastomosis to ligated left main coronary artery in the dog (1955)
- Femoral popliteal bypass with reversed saphenous vein in US (1956)
- 1st to use flow-limited molecules D2O and antipyrine to estimate tissue blood flow (1956)
- 1st to produce tolerance to allergenic skin in adult mice using parabiosis of tolerant to non-tolerant mice (1957)
- Pioneered isolated perfusion cancer chemotherapy with first head and neck and first isolated liver perfusion (1959-60)
- 1st hemicorporectomy in the world (1961)
- 1st cadaver kidney transplant in Minnesota (1962)
- Proposed foreign antigen persistence as the requisite mechanism for acquired tolerance (1964)
- 1st described utero-siqmoidostomy as a cancer provoking technique for developing colon cancer at the site of the anastomosis (1966)
Since 1975, the Aust Society has appointed presidents to manage and support the organization. Past presidents of the Aust Society include:
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2024-2025 Lillian Liao 2023-2024 John Sullivan 2022-2023 Sabrina Lahiri 2021-2022 Wm. Cannon Lewis 2020-2021 John Calhoon 2019-2020 John Calhoon 2018-2019 Michael Corneille 2017-2018 Petar Turcinovic 2016-2017 Juliane Bingener Casey 2015-2016 Joseph Miller 2014-2015 Jason Felger 2013-2014 David Dyslin 2012-2013 Thomas Pollard 2011-2012 James Field 2010-2011 Mario Rossbach 2009-2010 Craig O. Daniel 2008-2009 Martha P. Wills 2007-2008 Bruce Conway 2006-2007 Jeffrey Martinez 2005-2006 Barry Oswalt 2004-2005 Reginald Baptiste 2003-2004 George Mimari 2002-2003 Henry E. Bohne 2001-2002 Russell Woodard 2000-2001 Robert K. Thompson 1999-2000 Ronald M. Stewart 1998-1999 O. LaWayne Miller 1997-1998 Donald Crockett 1996-1997 Nathan L. Brightwell 1995-1996 Peter W. Hollimon 1994-1995 Elbert A. Thames 1993-1994 Raul Ramos |
1992-1993 John S. White 1991-1992 Mellick T. Sykes 1990-1991 Phillip Sutton 1989-1990 Michael Tilly 1988-1989 Douglas Robinson 1987-1988 H. Lamar Jones 1986-1987 S. Edwin Duncan 1985-1986 Rupert C. Anderson 1984-1985 Jose E. Molina 1983-1984 Jerry L. Franz 1982-1983 Kenneth L. Farrimond 1981-1982 Leopoldo Zorrilla 1980-1981 Boyce B. Oliver 1979-1980 Richard A. Hohm 1978-1979 Ernest Charles Andrews 1977-1978 Allen C. Eichler 1976-1977 Stewart M. Johnson 1975-1976 Arvin D. Short 1974-1975 Morris E. Franklin, Jr. |
In its annual meetings, members of the Aust Society have had the opportunity to attend talks from distinguished members of the medical community. Previous speakers at Aust Society annual meetings include:
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Dr. Robert Sparkman, 1976 Dr. Jesse E. Thompson, 1977 Dr. Robb H. Rutledge, 1978 Dr. Gilbert Campbell, 1979 Dr. Mark Ravitch, 1980 Dr. Ward Griffen, 1981 Dr. Stanley Dudrick, 1982 Dr. Hiram C. Polk, Jr., 1983 Dr. Alexander Walt, 1984 Dr. Lloyd D. MacLean, 1985 Dr. George Jordan, 1986 Dr. Andrew Dale, 1987 Dr. Robert E. Condon, 1988 Dr. Robert Zeppa, 1989 Dr. John L. Sawyers, 1990 Dr. John C. McDonald, 1991 |
Dr. J. David Richardson, 1992 Dr. Arthur J. Donovan, 1993 Dr. Stanley Goldberg, 1994 Dr. Jack Pickleman, 1995 Dr. J. Bradley Aust, 1996 Dr. William E. Strodel, III, 1997 Dr. Lazar J. Greenfield, 1998 Dr. Frederick Grover, 1999 Dr. Timothy Fabian, 2000 Dr. C. James Carrico, 2001 Dr. Tom R. DeMeester, 2002 Dr. J. Patrick O'Leary, 2003 Dr. Wallace P. Ritchie, 2004 Dr. Kenneth Mattox, 2005 Dr. Stephen Cohn, 2006 Dr. Joseph L. R. Mills, 2007 |
Dr. Jeffrey Ponsky, 2008 Dr. V. Suzanne Klimberg, 2009 Dr. John L. Tarpley, 2010 Dr. Samuel A. Wells, Jr., 2011 Dr. Donald D. Trunkey, 2012 Dr. J. David Richardson, 2013 Dr. Erik B. Wilson, 2014 Dr. Tomas D. Martin, 2015 Dr. Charles D. Mabry, 2016 Dr. Karen J. Brasel, 2017 Dr. J. Patrick Walker, 2018 Dr. Clay Cothren Burlew, 2019 Dr. Hazim J. Safi, 2021 Dr. Harry T. Papaconstantinou, 2022 Dr. Deirdre Marshall, 2023 |
