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A salient Las Vegas OB-GYN who died past week was a person successful the aesculapian assemblage and helped signifier UNLV’s aesculapian school, his colleagues said.
Kenneth Warren Volker died Nov. 21 astatine the property of 58, according to an online obituary.
Volker, Nevada’s main objective serviceman for Intermountain Healthcare, was a pioneer of minimally invasive country and an adept connected women’s wellness issues, according to the hospital system’s website. He focused connected minimally invasive and robotic gynecology and pelvic reconstruction surgery.
The institution did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Volker besides was an adjunct objective subordinate prof astatine UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine and was 1 of the archetypal doctors to thatch astatine the schoolhouse erstwhile it started successful 2017.
Dr. Marc Kahn, dean of the aesculapian school, called Volker “a existent person successful the aesculapian community.”
“Warren was an inspirational person whose beingness and generous tone volition beryllium missed for galore years to come,” Kahn said Monday successful an emailed statement.
Dr. Barbara Atkinson, the founding dean of UNLV’s School of Medicine, remembered Volker for his “warm relationship and support.”
Atkinson, who worked with Volker portion the schoolhouse was being formed, said helium was known for offering proposal that “always seemed to assistance america determination the schoolhouse forward.”
“Warren Volker was 1 of the kindest, astir thoughtful radical to measurement guardant and connection assistance during the readying and physique retired of the aesculapian school,” Atkinson said successful an emailed connection sent Monday.
Volker served connected the school’s assemblage advisory committee and spoke astir the request for a schoolhouse of medicine successful Southern Nevada to combat a deficiency of doctors successful the area.
“I’m truly invested successful the aesculapian assemblage and education,” Volker said successful an undated video posted to UNLV’s website astir the request for a schoolhouse of medicine. “One of the things is arsenic this assemblage has grown truthful fast, we’ve truly fallen down connected the wellness attraction that we’re delivering here.”
Dr. James Alexander, seat of the school’s OB-GYN department, said Monday successful an emailed connection that Volker was a “true gentleman.”
“Warren was a talented doc and an fantabulous pedagogue who made everyone astir him better,” Alexander said. “In summation to having outstanding method skills, helium was grooming the adjacent procreation of doctors to beryllium compassionate and benignant hearted, conscionable similar helium was.”
Volker was calved successful Grand Forks, North Dakota, adjacent the Minnesota border. He joined his woman and “love of his life,” Michele Beauchamp, successful June 1988 successful East Grand Forks, Minnesota, according to his obituary.
“Warren was passionate astir wellness and fitness, completing a Spartan Trifecta Race and hiking connected weekends,” the obituary said. “He had varied interests and hobbies, from being a car enthusiast to teaching himself to play guitar and ukulele.”
Volker graduated from the University of North Dakota Medical School. His vocation successful the aesculapian assemblage lasted much than 20 years and included enforcement enactment positions successful aesculapian institutions crossed the country. He was recognized this twelvemonth arsenic 1 of the apical 100 physicians by U.S. News and World Report, the obituary said.
He antecedently served arsenic the main of aesculapian unit astatine Centennial Hills Hospital and Medical Center and president of the OB-GYN section astatine the Summerlin Hospital Medical Center, according to his LinkedIn page.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Volker “helped to rise assemblage clinics,” according to his LinkedIn page, and was quoted by section TV stations discussing the virus.
He had participated successful aesculapian missions successful Honduras and the Dominican Republic, and provided humanitarian alleviation to Puerto Rico aft Hurricane Maria, according to the page.
Volker’s household could not beryllium reached for comment.
He is survived by his wife, 3 children, granddaughter, parent and 5 siblings, the obituary said.
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