Gus Kappler, M.D.

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    Education   • Cornell University, BA 1961   • Cornell Medical College, MD 1965   • Surgical Residency in General, Vascular, and Thoracic Surgery at the Medical College of Virginia,  1965 - 1970     Military Service   • Army Trauma Surgeon, 85th Evacuation Hospital,  Phu Bai, Vietnam 1970 - 1971   •  Army Surgeon, Fort Carson, Colorado 1971 - 1972      Private Practice   • Private Solo Surgical Practice, Amsterdam, NY  1972 - 1999   •  Instrumental in introducing 21st century medical and  surgical care to our demographic area especially in the  fields of venous thrombosis prophylaxis, nutritional  support, respiratory therapy, and appropriate use of  antibiotics     Academic Appointment   •  Lecturer in Surgery: Weill Cornell Medicine 2000-2015    Teaching   •  Facilitator in Problem Based Learning: Human Structure and  Function, 2000 - 2015 at Weill Cornell Medicine (highly  rated by the students and faculty)    •  Weill Cornell Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award for  both 2012 and 2013   •  Weill Cornell Medicine Stimson Society Lecturer (multiple  years) on “Battlefield Trauma: Vietnam to Afghanistan”     Cornell University Library   •  Carl A. Kroch Library Division of Rare and Manuscript  Collections, The Gustav Edward Kappler Papers: Vietnam  Experience      Veterans Affairs   • Active since 1972: individual counseling, medical advising   • Lectured and counseled hospital staff and community in mid-80’s during Delayed Stress Epidemic, today’s PTS(D)   • Prime mover in dedicating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial  at Fulton Montgomery Community College in 1984 for the  thirty-seven men killed in Vietnam from our tri-county area   • Organized a rededication of the same Memorial on September 10, 2016 during a visit of the “Traveling Wall”   • Participated as a client in and suggested neural pathways for healing results of Saratoga WarHorse