Berish Strauch

Courtesy of Robert Strauch Innovative plastic surgeon and microsurgical pioneer. Another of Strauch's ex-trainees, Professor Christine Rohde, Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, agrees: “Bob [as Strauch was generally called] had a passion for what he did… [...]the early 1970s, developments in the field were limited by the state of the technology for tackling even superficially minor technical problems, such as joining a length of suture finer than a human hair to a tiny needle.