April 18, 2011 — Lazar Greenfield, MD, is a textbook author, prolific researcher, educator, inventor of the Greenfield vena cava filter for the prevention of pulmonary embolism, and, until yesterday, the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
On Sunday, the 76-year-old Dr. Greenfield resigned from his post as president-elect amid a furor over a Valentine's Day editorial in an ACS newsletter in which he wrote that semen brightens a woman's mood.
"So there's a deeper bond between men and women than St. Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there's a better gift for that day than chocolates," he wrote in the February issue of Surgery News. At the time, Dr. Greenfield was the publication's editor-in-chief. He announced his resignation from the post in the April issue.
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