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Show Named Surgery Chief Nelson A. Burton, son of Dr. and Mrs. Hubert C. Burton, Bur-ton, and a graduate of Bountiful Bounti-ful High School, class of 1967, was recently named assistant chief of cardiothorasic surgery at the world famed Waiter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. It serves the medical needs of presidents, the members of Congress, the foreign diplomatic establishment, establish-ment, and members of the Armed Forces of the United States. DR. BURTON also has appointments as assistant professor pro-fessor of surgery at the Uniformed Uni-formed Services University of Health Sciences, and on the . teaching staff of the George Washington School of Medicine. Medi-cine. In July of 1982, he finished seven years of surgical training under the world famed cardiac surgeon, Dr. Norman Shum- y NELSON A. BURTON way at Stanford University in Palo Alta, Calif. There he also did research in heart and heart-lung heart-lung transplantation which led to the introduction of a new immuno-suppressive drug which is greatly extending the survival times of patients who are having this radical lifesav-ing lifesav-ing surgery. NELSON graduated Phi Beta Kappa in political science from the University of Utah in 1972, and then received his M.D. degree from the "U" in 1975. Upon graduation, he was the recipient of the Dean's Award for outstanding achievement as a medical student. stu-dent. In addition to his operating, clinical, and teaching responsibilities, respon-sibilities, Nelson is a consultant consul-tant to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and involved in research re-search at the Walter Reed Institute In-stitute of Research. HE IS married to the former Amy Lawrence Brown who he met while she was serving as a Coronary Care Unit Nurse at the Stanford University Hospital. Hos-pital. Her parents reside in Palm Beach, Fla. Nelson and Amy are the parents of two children, Jessica, 3 and Christ-opher, Christ-opher, 1. |