Bulletin | ACS | Sibling Surgeons: Drs. Ed and Fred Chen

Edward P. Chen, MD, FACS, FAHA, division chief of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and Frederick Y. Chen, MD, PhD, FACS, chief of cardiac surgery at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA, are 3 years apart in age and shared similar memories of a “very grounded, down-to-earth childhood” in Athens, GA. They described riding bikes on wooded trails, messing around in the creeks, playing catch— “all that kind of fun stuff that kids did back in the 1970s when there were no devices,” said Dr. Ed Chen.

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