09/12/2025
✨ Tribute to David B. Redwine — My Friend, My Colleague
Today I want to honour someone whose absence I feel every day — David B. Redwine. For more than a decade we were colleagues in the fight against endometriosis, and in the last years of his life we became very close friends.
David, Silke and I shared unforgettable moments together — including a wonderful congress in Xi’an, where we both received guest professorships. After our surgeries there — David operating on endometriosis and I performing a nerve-mapping procedure — we ended the day singing “My Way” in our scrubs. That was David: passionate, authentic, full of life.
Silke and David became true “best friends”, and I will always be grateful for the bond they shared.
We were united by curiosity — the need to understand endometriosis beyond counting surgeries or bowel resections — and by the courage to cross the borders of traditional disciplines. We also belonged to the last generation of gynecologists trained in true vaginal surgery, approaching deep infiltrating endometriosis with the same philosophy:
“Do from below what must be done from below, and from above what must be done from above.”
A warm thought also goes to Nancy Petersen, an extraordinary nurse who stood by David for many years in the OR and shared this mission with us.
David was a pioneer, a mentor, and above all a good man.
Silke and I miss him deeply.
Thank you, David — you truly did it your way.
