Victor Keyloun, M.D.
Victor Keyloun was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. His parents were both immigrants from Aleppo, Syria, and his father was a prominent player in the New York garment industry. The youngest of six children, Victor chose not to follow his siblings into the family business, and instead attended the College of the Holy Cross and later Georgetown Medical School. He served two years in the United States Navy before completing his post-doctoral training at St. Vincent's Hospital and starting private practice in Greenwich Village, New York.
After twenty years in practice, Dr. Keyloun switched careers, helming a highly successful consulting firm that specialized in creating computer-based sales training material and medical education for pharmaceutical companies around the world. After engineering the sale of the company in 1993, her retired to pursue and enjoy his life-long ambition - writing.
Films
Cemeteries: A Troubling Trend
Writer/Director: Victor Keyloun
Running Time: 29 minutes
A documentary that explores the history of American internment practices, and the challenges faced by those who maintain cemeteries. What happens when there is no funding? Who is responsible? What solutions are there to the finite amount of physical space? Through commentary by leaders and administrators of military, religious and secular organizations, this video examines the spectrum of problems, with an eye towards a new, growing trend in end-of-life practices.
Cemeteries: A Troubling Trend
PediaFlow®️ Promotional Video
Writer/Producer: Victor Keyloun
Company: Heart Hope for Kids Foundation
Running Time: 4:38 minutes
PediaFlow®️ is an alternative to a heart transplant for infants with congenital heart failure. Invented by Dr. James Antaki (founder of the Heart Hope for Kids Foundation and the Susan K. McAdam Professor of Heart Assist Technology at Cornell’s Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering), the device is based on the world’s smallest magnetically levitated rotodynamic blood pump. It is intended to help the 3,000 newborns, infants, toddlers who die from heart failure each year.
PediaFlow
Reviews
Great book for people interested in the rapid changes in medicine, told from a personal, humorous and insightful perspective. Touching portrait of (Dr. Keyloun's) relationships to Saint Vincent's hospital, to Greenwich Village, and to his wife, Carol.
Dr. Good Has Gone
Elisabeth Zapol