Frederick Gustav Stoesser, 95, associate clinical professor of surgery

A memorial service will be held April 25 in Juno Beach, Fla., for Frederick Gustav Stoesser, 95, a Buffalo surgeon who had served as an associate clinical professor of surgery in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Stoesser, who taught at UB for 32 years before his retirement from private practice in 1969, died March 8 in Waterford Health Care Center, Juno Beach. He had retired to Tequesta, Fla., in 1970.

A 1929 graduate of the UB medical school, Stoesser was president of his graduating class. He practiced as a board-certified surgeon from 1940-69 at E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital and Millard Fillmore Hospital, where he was chief of surgery from 1961-67. He also was a consulting surgeon at DeGraff Memorial Hospital and Lafayette General Hospital during that time.

A past president of the Buffalo Surgical Society, he also served as president of the UB Medical Alumni Association, the Buffalo Academy of Medicine and the Millard Fillmore Hospital staff.

Stoesser's research included work on the use of hyperbaric oxygen to treat disease and he was instrumental in bringing the first hyperbaric chamber to Buffalo. In 1956, he received a patent for a vein stripper and proceeds were turned over to the UB medical school for an endowment to support medical students in financial need. He authored 12 articles in medical journals.