Carolyn Elaine Reed, MD March 4, 1950-November 16, 2012

Carolyn Reed, 48th President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, was an accomplished surgeon, an outstanding educator, a dedicated investigator, a role model for both women and men in surgery, and a national leader in our specialty of cardiothoracic surgery. She filled all of these roles extremely well, but most important to her was her role as a physician who truly cared about her patients, friends, and colleagues as was apparent in her 2007 Southern Thoracic Surgical Association Presidential Address, "Patient Versus Customer, Technology Versus Touch: Where Has Humanism Gone?"