W. Clark Beckett, Jr., M.D., was presented with a lifetime achievement award first established in 2004 in honor of retired Indian River Medical Center neurosurgeon Dr. Romas Sakalas.
Dr. Beckett has been a vascular surgeon at IRMC for 18 years and currently serves as the medical staff representative to the IRMC Board of Directors and medical director of the Wound Healing Center at IRMC. He was recently elected vice chief of staff. During his time at IRMC, Dr. Beckett has served as the chair of the Department of Surgery.
(l-r) Jeffrey L. Susi, IRMC president/CEO; Dr. W. Clark Beckett, Jr.; Dr. Charles M. Callahan, IRMC chief of staff; and Dr. Romas Sakalas.
Dr. Sakalas, who retired in 2004 after nearly 30 years as a neurosurgeon at IRMC, made the presentation. He said, “Dr. Beckett stands out as a surgeon because of his outstanding diagnostic and technical skills, and because of the care, compassion and sacrifices he has made for his patients. These qualities make him one of the finest physicians on any staff and among the best vascular surgeons in the country.”
Dr. Beckett is the first physician to receive the award since Dr. Sakalas. The Romas Sakalas Award was created to recognize physicians who provide outstanding clinical care to their patients at IRMC as well as service to their fellow physicians that goes well above the high standard to which IRMC physicians are typically held. An award selection committee comprised of one IRMC board member, one member of the IRMC Executive Management Team and three IRMC physicians determines the honorees.
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