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Joe Kuhn Figure 1 was born in Ames, Iowa, on October 3, 1958, and grew up mainly in Lincoln, Nebraska, in Lawton, Oklahoma, and in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the third of six siblings. After attending public schools and after a year at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, he transferred to Texas A&M University and graduated from there with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry summa cum laude. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1984, having been awarded Alpha Omega Alpha during his senior year. His 5-year general surgery residency was at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC); during his final year he was chief resident. After completing that program in 1989, he did a surgical oncology fellowship at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, finishing in 1992. Thereafter, he returned to BUMC, where he entered the private practice of general surgery and surgical oncology.
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Dr. Joseph A. Kuhn during the interview.
Since returning to BUMC, he has played a major role in teaching the surgical residents and has received the outstanding teaching award given by BUMC on at least five occasions. Also, while a chief resident in the BUMC surgical residency program, he received the outstanding teacher award from John Peter Smith (JPS) Hospital, where he spent 25% of his surgical residency training. Dr. Kuhn has been active in several surgical societies and has given 125 presentations at meetings of various societies. He has been extremely active in research and has been one of the leaders in getting the surgical residents at BUMC involved in research activities. He has >70 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. His research efforts have been continuous from his last year of surgical residency to the present time. Dr. Kuhn has been a major player at BUMC for essentially 2 decades. In addition to his surgical skills, he is a wonderful human being and a great credit to BUMC. He and his wife, Mollie, are the proud parents of three children.
William Clifford Roberts, MD (hereafter, Roberts): Dr. Kuhn, I appreciate very much your willingness to talk to me and therefore the readers of BUMC Proceedings. To start, could you discuss your early childhood,...