In Loving Memory
The Campaign for Stuyvesant/ Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
P.O. 2626
Peter Stuyvesant Station
New York, NY 10009
Office
610 West 115th Street
New York, NY 10025-7771
(212) 222-9112
M. Felix Freshwater, MD ’64
Chair, Class of ’64 Fund
Felix graduated with a B.S. (magna cum laude) from Brooklyn College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Salk Scholar at Yale University School of Medicine and served on the editorial board of The Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences. Felix completed residencies and fellowships at: Yale New Haven Hospital; Johns Hopkins, where he held a Weinberger Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health in the Division of Plastic Surgery, the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital under Ralph Millard; and Jewish Hospital in Louisville, KY.
Felix is a Voluntary Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine. As board certified hand and plastic surgeon, he limits his practice to diseases and surgery of the hand and to reconstructive plastic surgery. He serves on the editorial boards of leading peer-reviewed journals in these fields. He is best known, perhaps, for popularizing the use of leeches in microsurgery and for performing the world’s first forequarter reattachment.
Felix has served in several development leadership positions at Yale where has endowed two funds. The first, the “Donald D. Wright Scholarship Fund” honors his faculty advisor at Brooklyn College. It provides scholarship support to any CUNY graduate who attends Yale School of Medicine. The second, the “Arons-Millard Student Research Fund” honors his first and last plastic surgery teachers. It supports students for their medical doctorate thesis research.
Felix helped organize and lead the Class of 1964 reunions in 1999 and 2004. He established the Class of 1964 website. He is one of the leaders of the Class of '64 Fund in the Campaign with a goal of raising $250,000 in unrestricted funds.
Felix's professional website can be found at www.miamihandsurgery.com.