DOCTOR ERNEST PARSAMIAN AWARDED MEDAL OF HONOUR OF ELLIS ISLAND

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 09 2007

NEW YORK, JULY 9, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The official awarding
of 95 people with a medal of Honour of Ellis Island recently took
place in the "Great Hall" of Ellis Island in New York, and Ernest
Parsamian, an Armenian doctor, was among them.

Ernest Parsamian was born in Aleppo in 1925. He worked in the hospital
of the American University in Beirut, where he founded a cauterization
section.

In 1956 he moved to America and took part in the surgical programs of
Harward in Boston. Later he became a member of the American Department
of Surgeons. He is the author of a number of innovations in the sphere
of medical and cardiovascular surgery, in particular. In 1978 he was
appointed deputy supervisor of the Medical Institute of Harward,
henceforth, he received a doctorate and assumed the position of a
supervisor. He was rewarded over two hundred prizes and diplomas.

According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the Daily
Marmara, the medal of Ellis Island is awarded to those representatives
of the national minorities of America, who preserve their ethnic
peculiarities and devote their life to the preservation of universal
and American values.

Alec Manukian, the life Chairman of the Armenian General Benevolent
Union, former and current MPs Luis Simon-Manukain and Pertch Sedrakian,
Mihran Aghbabian, the Founder Chairman of the American University in
Armenia, psychologist Hakob Akiskal, writer Peter Balakian, as well
as many others were rewarded this medal of Ellis Island in the past.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress