George Berci (né Bleier; 14 March 1921 – 30 August 2024) was a Hungarian-American surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, United States and a pioneer in minimally invasive surgeries.

George Berci, MD, led an improbable and monumental life. As a young man, he survived the Holocaust and went on to become an internationally renowned surgical pioneer who developed many of the minimally invasive tools and techniques that are used in operating rooms and procedure suites around the world today.Dr. Berci passed away on Aug. 30 at th...

2024年9月15日 · Dr. Berci brought a precise eye and an inventor’s zeal to innovations that enabled doctors to better visualize the bladder, colon, esophagus, prostate, common bile duct and other body parts.

2018年4月11日 · A Holocaust survivor, Cedars-Sinai's Dr. George Berci developed endoscopic and laparoscopic surgical techniques that inform many of today's procedures. Learn more about his incredible life story.

Berci, a Holocaust survivor who died Aug. 30 at the age of 103, was an evangelist for less-invasive surgical methods, now the dominant form of surgery; laparoscopy is one well-known example of ...

2024年9月26日 · George Berci, an Evangelist for Less-Invasive Surgery, Dies at 103 The benefits of a dime-size incision were obvious. But surgeons were reluctant to abandon what they had learned in medical...

Berci passed away in Thousand Oaks, California, on Aug. 30. He was 103. His death was a tremendous loss for the Cedars-Sinai community, as Berci had remained actively engaged into his 100s as an educator and as senior director of Surgical Endoscopy and Innovation Research.

2025年2月20日 · Dr. George Berci passed away on Aug. 30 at the age of 103, ending a distinguished career as a groundbreaking innovator who revolutionized the field of endoscopic surgery. A gifted violinist who chose medicine at his mother’s urging, Berci arrived at Cedars-Sinai in the 1970s and remained actively engaged into his 100s as an educator and ...

2024年11月23日 · George Berci was from a Jewish family in central Europe and the first three decades of his life were dominated by upheaval, but also characterised by a remarkable capacity to adapt and survive in impossible circumstances.

2024年9月25日 · Berci died Aug. 30 in Thousand Oaks, California from complications of COVID-19. He was 103. “Unfortunately, I had a terrible early life in respect to being a Jew,” Berci said in 2018. “The ...