Caldwell Esselstyn

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Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr. (born December 12, 1933 in New York City ) is an American medic and participant in the 1956 Summer Olympics .

biography

Esselstyn attended Deerfield Academy (boarding school) and studied from 1956 human medicine at Yale University , where he was also a member of the Skull and Bones fraternity . He finally received his professional medical doctorate (MD) from Case Western Reserve University in 1961 . His specialty is surgery .

He took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and won a gold medal in the eighth row rowing discipline .

From 1961 to 1968 he worked as a doctor for various hospitals in the United States, London and Vietnam . From 1968 he worked for the surgical department of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio . Within this he was the surgical director for thyroid diseases and breast cancer until 2006 . From 1977 to 1978 he was also Chairman of the Human Resources Department and from 1977 to 1982 a member of the Supervisory Board. Since 2009 he has been chairman of the preventive medicine and wellness departments .

Esselstyn is a member of the advisory board of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization founded in the USA in 1985 that combats animal experiments and promotes vegan nutrition . In 2016 Esselstyn was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM).

Fonts

  • Surgical Management of Actively Bleeding Duodenal Ulcer. In: Surgical Clinics of North America (1976), pp. 1387-1393
  • Breast Cancer: An Overview. In: Surgical Clinics of North America (1978), pp. 58-659
  • Evaluation of Various Types of Needle Biopsies of the Thyroid. In: World Journal of Surgery (1984), pp. 452-457
  • A Clinical Approach to the Initial Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules. In: Modern Medicine (1987), pp. 48-54
  • (with Sharon Grundfest-Broniatowski): Controversies in Breast Disease: Diagnosis and Management. Marcel Dekker Inc (1988). ISBN 0-8247-7880-4
  • Updating a 12-year Experience with Arrest and Reversal Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease (An Overdue Requiem for Palliative Cardiology). In: Am J of Cardiology (1999), pp. 339-341.
  • Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease. Avery publisher (2007). ISBN 1-58333-272-3
  • (with: Gene Stone and T. Colin Campbell): Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health (2011). ISBN 1-61519-045-7
  • Michael Senoff: How To Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: An Interview With Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn (2011)
  • Eating against heart attacks: the revolutionary nutritional concept . TRIAS publishing house (2014). ISBN 978-3-8304-6908-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Kava: Good Stories, Bad Science: A Guide for Journalists to the Health Claims of Consumer Activists Groups , American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), June 2005; P. 18.
  2. ↑ 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient. The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), accessed February 1, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Esselstyn, Caldwell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esselstyn Jr., Caldwell Blakeman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic and Olympian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA