Dr. George Hruza, son of a holocaust survivor, arrived to New York at age 14 from socialist totalitarian Czechoslovakia. He is a physician specializing in dermatology and Mohs micrographic surgery in St. Louis, Missouri. He has taken care of tens of thousands of patients with difficult-to-treat skin cancers from the St. Louis region and as far away as Australia. He has taught dermatologic surgery to many residents, fellows and dermatologists on five continents. He has advocated for patients with regulators and legislators at the federal and Missouri state levels for more than two decades and during his presidencies at the American Academy of Dermatology/Association and Missouri State Medical Association.