Benjamin Starnes | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Delaware |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Marjorie Starnes |
| Children | Cara Elise, Jessica Nicole |
| Alma mater | Albright College Jefferson Medical College |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | US Army Medical Corps |
| Rank |  Lieutenant Colonel |
| Unit | 250th Forward Surgical Team[1] |
| Battles/wars | Kosovo War, Iraq War |
Benjamin Starnes (born 1966) is a vascular surgeon and medical researcher. He holds the Alexander Whitehill Clowes Endowed Chair in Vascular surgery at the University of Washington.[2] He served as a U.S. Army surgeon for 15 years, doing three tours of duty, including in the last M.A.S.H. unit.[3] On the day of the September 11 attacks he was at the Pentagon rendering medical aid to victims, and his experience was later recounted in the book American Phoenix: Heroes of the Pentagon on 9/11.[4][5] He is among the primary authors of the official guidelines for diagnosis and management of aortic disease adopted by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.[6]
- ^ Dilanian, Ken (April 9, 2003). "Army surgeon, team jump into Iraq and set up surgical tent". McClatchy DC. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
- ^ "Benjamin W. Starnes, MD, FACS". UW Medicine. University of Washington Medicine. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
- ^ Sternberg, Steve; Huth, Lindsay (April 19, 2018). "Safety in Numbers: Low Volumes at Military Hospitals Imperil Patients With few opportunities to hone their skills, military surgeons are inadvertently putting certain patients at risk for adverse outcomes". US News & World Report. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
- ^ Starnes, Lincoln M. (May 24, 2022). American Phoenix: Heroes of the Pentagon on 9/11, with a foreword by Benjamin W Starnes. Seattle, WA: Girl Friday Books. ISBN 9781734880243.
- ^ Talbott, Chris (September 10, 2021). "'American Phoenix' details UW surgeon's 9/11 experiences when he was an Army doctor and first responder at the Pentagon". Seattle Times. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
- ^ Isselbacher, Eric M.; Preventza, Ourania; Hamilton Black, James; Augoustides, John G.; Beck, Adam W.; Bolen, Michael A.; Braverman, Alan C.; Bray, Bruce E.; Brown-Zimmerman, Maya M.; Chen, Edward P.; Collins, Tyrone J.; Deanda, Abe; Fanola, Christina L.; Girardi, Leonard N.; Hicks, Caitlin W.; Hui, Dawn S.; Schuyler Jones, William; Kalahasti, Vidyasagar; Kim, Karen M.; Milewicz, Dianna M.; Oderich, Gustavo S.; Ogbechie, Laura; Promes, Susan B.; Gyang Ross, Elsie; Schermerhorn, Marc L.; Singleton Times, Sabrina; Tseng, Elaine E.; Wang, Grace J.; Woo, Y. Joseph (December 13, 2022). "2022 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease: A Report of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines". Circulation. 146 (24): e334–e482. doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001106. PMC 9876736. PMID 36322642.