Audiey Kao, MD, PhD
The journal presents its first Virtual Mentor Award for being an exemplary role model in medicine to Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a pioneer cardiovascular surgeon who is credited for helping to develop coronary artery bypass operations, heart transplants, and MASH units.
Virtual Mentor. 2000;2(2):18-. doi:
doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2000.2.2.prol1-0002.