TCOM’s Dr. Albert Yurvati bestowed an honorary degree by the University of Strathclyde in Scotland
One of the most distinguished and decorated alumni in the history of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Albert H. Olivencia-Yurvati, DO, PhD, DFACOS, FICS, FAHA was bestowed an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. It is the third doctorate for Yurvati to go along with his DO and PhD degrees he received from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
Yurvati was honored on Friday, Nov. 1 at The Barony Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.
“Professor Yurvati’s commitment to medical education, research and clinical impact echo strongly with the very foundations of the University of Strathclyde,” said Professor Stuart Reid, the head of the department of Biomedical Engineering and Royal Society Industry Fellow in Biomedical Engineering. “It is with great pleasure therefore vice-principal that, with the authority of the Senate, I ask you to confer upon Professor Albert Yurvati the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa.”
Yurvati is currently the Dallas Southwest Osteopathic Physicians professor of surgery and TCOM’s chair of medical education. In 2012, he pioneered a surgical breakthrough, the Xiphoid. He became the first surgeon in the world to identify the xiphoid process, a cartilage structure at the tip of the breastbone, as the source of mysterious pain for many patients, and to fix it.
His passion for excellence has been recognized nationally and internationally, as well as at HSC, where he received the 2021 Mary Luibel Distinguished Alumni Award. He received the 2012 Clyde Gallehugh, DO. Memorial Award and the 2011 President’s Award for Clinical Excellence.
In 2013, he received the Orel F. Martin Medal from the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. In 2016, he was honored by ACOS with the Guy D. Beaumont Jr. FACOS Award of Academic Excellence and in 2021 he was the recipient of the Charles L. Ballinger Distinguished Osteopathic Surgeon Award from the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. He is the only person in the history of ACOS to receive all three of their highest awards.
He and his wife Sharon have been very generous supporters of TCOM, as they created the Dr. Al and Sharon Yurvati DO/PhD Scholarship and they helped fund the Veteran’s Scholarship dedicated to those men and women who have bravely served our nation.
Yurvati joins a list of very distinguished names to receive honorary doctorate degrees from Strathclyde. They include Nelson Mandela, King Olav V of Norway and Nobel Prize winners Eric Cornell, Sir Charles Kao and Professor Roy Glauber.
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