Really Chip, it's hung up on my office wall, along with 25 U.S. and world-wide patents, membership certificates in the American College of Angiology,(Fellow), American College of Physician Inventors (one of two non-physicians), European Society for Vascular Surgery, International Society for Endovascular Surgery (Fellow) The New York Academy of Sciences, Society of Plastic Engineers, The Radiological Section of the American Heart Association, Entrepreneur of the Year (1992,1993 nomination) an autographed photo of Dr. Michael DeBakey, my mentor, A photo of the Semisubmersible Barge Borgland Dolphin (Norwegian Registration) that I lived upon for 18 months as an engineer in the North Sea in 1978-80, some photos of Venezuela, a plastic encased vial of the first oil through the Trans-Panama Pipeline which I laid across the Panamanian Peninsula,and a few other momentos of a well-lived life, how about you? |