List of surgeons
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Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures
- Christiaan BarnardChristiaan BarnardChristiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.- Early life :...
, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantationHeart transplantationA heart transplant, or a cardiac transplantation, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. As of 2007 the most common procedure was to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor and implant it into the... - William DeVriesWilliam DeVries-References:...
, first permanent artificial heart transplant - John Heysham GibbonJohn Heysham GibbonJohn Heysham Gibbon Jr., AB, MD, a surgeon best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing the first open heart surgery . He was the son of Dr...
(1903-1973), first open heart surgery - John HunterJohn Hunter (surgeon)John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour...
, first aneurysm operation - Lall SawhLall SawhLall Ramnath Sawh CM, FRCS is a Trinidadian urologist in the Caribbean and Latin America. Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Sawh pionerred kidney transplantation in the Caribbean in 1988 and has continued to be a leader in the field of urology...
, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra. - Michael WoodruffMichael WoodruffSir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff, FRS, FRCS was an English surgeon and scientist principally remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering and medicine...
, transplantationOrgan transplantOrgan transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs to be...
pioneer. - Paul Randall HarringtonPaul Randall HarringtonPaul Randall Harrington was an American orthopaedic surgeon. He is best known as the designer of the Harrington Rod, the first device for the straightening and immobilization of the spine inside the body. It entered common use in the early 1960s and remained the gold standard for scoliosis...
, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rodHarrington ImplantThe Harrington implant is a stainless steel surgical device. Historically, this rod was implanted along the spinal column to treat, among other conditions, a lateral or coronal-plane curvature of the spine, or scoliosis. Up to one million people had Harrington rods implanted for scoliosis between...
. - Paolo MacchiariniPaolo MacchiariniPaolo Macchiarini, M.D., Ph.D. is head and chairman of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, as well as professor of surgery at the University of Barcelona in Spain, and at the Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany.Dr. Macchiarini completed his...
, first stem cell grown trachea transplant. - Frederic E. MohsFrederic E. MohsFrederic Edward Mohs , a physician and general surgeon, developed the Mohs micrographic surgery technique in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions while still a medical student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique (MMS) aka Mohs surgeryMohs surgeryMohs surgery, also known as chemosurgery, created by a general surgeon, Dr. Frederic E. Mohs, is microscopically controlled surgery used to treat common types of skin cancer. It is one of the many methods of obtaining complete margin control during removal of a skin cancer using frozen section...
in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions. - Richard Lehman (surgeon)Richard Lehman (surgeon)Richard Lehman, M.D., is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon in St. Louis, Missouri, who pioneered the procedure for articular cartilage reconstruction using two-phased cartilage grafts....
, pioneered several orthopedic surgeries that are designed to minimize scarring and lower re-injury chances.
Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery
- Moshe GueronMoshe Gueron-Introduction:Gueron was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and received his bachelors and M.D. degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After World War II, he emigrated from Bulgaria to Israel and lived in Tel-Aviv with his parents...
best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting. - Victor ChangVictor ChangVictor Peter Chang, AC , was a Chinese Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he grew up in Hong Kong before moving to Australia...
- Svyatoslav FyodorovSvyatoslav FyodorovSvyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician...
(1927-2000), creator of radial keratotomyRadial keratotomyRadial keratotomy is a refractive surgical procedure to correct myopia.- Discovery :The procedure was discovered by Svyatoslav Fyodorov who removed glass from the eye of one of his patients who had been in an accident. A boy, who wore eyeglasses, fell off his bicycle and his glasses shattered on... - Gavril Ilizarov a Russian orthopedicOrthopedicsOrthopedics is the study of the musculoskeletal system. The Greek word 'ortho' means straight or correct and 'pedics' comes from the Greek 'pais' meaning children. For many centuries, orthopedists have been involved in the treatment of crippled children...
surgeon who invented the procedureIlizarov apparatusThe Ilizarov apparatus is named after the orthopedic surgeon Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov from the Soviet Union, who pioneered the technique. It is used in surgical procedures to lengthen or reshape limb bones; to treat complex and/or open bone fractures; and in cases of infected non-unions of bones...
to lengthen or reshape limb bones. - Lars LeksellLars LeksellLars Leksell was a Swedish physician and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the inventor of radiosurgery.-Life and work:...
, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgeryRadiosurgeryRadiosurgery is a medical procedure that allows non-invasive treatment of benign and malignant tumors. It is also known as stereotactic radiotherapy, when used to target lesions in the brain, and stereotactic body radiotherapy when used to target lesions in the body... - Joseph ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister OM, FRS, PC , known as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., between 1883 and 1897, was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary...
, discoverer of surgical asepsisAsepsisAsepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing contaminants or, preventing contact with microorganisms. The term asepsis often refers to those practices used to promote or induce asepsis in an operative field in surgery or medicine to prevent infection... - Norman BethuneNorman BethuneHenry Norman Bethune was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the Communist Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War...
- Canadian thoracicCardiothoracic SurgeryCardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax —generally treatment of conditions of the heart and lungs .-Cardiac / Thoracic:...
surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health careUniversal health careUniversal health care is a term referring to organized health care systems built around the principle of universal coverage for all members of society, combining mechanisms for health financing and service provision.-History:...
and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit. - John Heysham GibbonJohn Heysham GibbonJohn Heysham Gibbon Jr., AB, MD, a surgeon best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing the first open heart surgery . He was the son of Dr...
invented the heart-lung machine.
Infamy and longevity
- John Ronald BrownJohn Ronald BrownJohn Ronald Brown was a United States surgeon who was convicted of second-degree murder after a patient died while Brown was practicing medicine without a license.- Early life :The son of a physician,...
(1922-2010). A notorious incompetent, convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a patient. - Fyodor UglovFyodor UglovFyodor Grigorievich Uglov 1904 – 22 June 2008) was in 1994 listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon in the world....
, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon - Paul SpanglerPaul SpanglerDr. Paul E. Spangler was a retired U.S. Navy surgeon, who took up the sport of running at the age of 67.-Early life:...
Naval surgeon, Senior Long distance runner
- David Hayes AgnewDavid Hayes AgnewDavid Hayes Agnew was an American surgeon.- Biography :He was born on November 24, 1818 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and a few years later set up in practice at Philadelphia and became a lecturer at the...
- Norman BethuneNorman BethuneHenry Norman Bethune was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the Communist Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War...
(1890-1939), battlefield surgeryBattlefield medicineBattlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded soldiers in or near an area of combat. Civilian medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were first developed to treat the wounds inflicted during combat...
. - Theodor BillrothTheodor BillrothChristian Albert Theodor Billroth was a German-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician....
, stomach resection - Ben CarsonBen CarsonBenjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr., M.D., is an American neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States by President George W...
- William CheseldenWilliam CheseldenWilliam Cheselden was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery, who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession.-Life:...
- Realdo ColomboRealdo ColomboRealdo Colombo was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559.- Early life and education :Matteo Realdo Colombo or Renaldus Columbus, was born in Cremona, Lombardy to an apothecary named Antonio Colombo...
(c. 1516-1559) - Abraham CollesAbraham CollesAbraham Colles was professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Descended from a Worcestershire family, some of whom had sat in Parliament, he was born to William Colles and Mary Anne Bates of Woodbroak, Co. Wexford...
(1773-1843) - Denton CooleyDenton CooleyDenton Arthur Cooley is an American heart surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley is also founder and surgeon in-chief of the Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at St...
- Astley CooperAstley CooperSir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet was an English surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia.-Life:Cooper was born at Brooke Hall in Brooke, Norfolk...
- S. Natarajan, Noted Indian vitreo retinal surgeon
- John Green CrosseJohn Green CrosseJohn Green Crosse, FRCS, FRS was a well known surgeon of his day at the old Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.Crosse was born on 6 September 1790 in Suffolk, the son of a farmer by the name of William, of Boyton Hall, Great Finborough. Crosse died on 9 June 1850 and is buried in the cloisters of...
, MD, FRCS, FRS (1790 to 1850), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital - Harvey CushingHarvey CushingHarvey Williams Cushing, M.D. , was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery, and the first to describe Cushing's syndrome...
, neurosurgery - Michael E. DeBakeyMichael E. DeBakeyMichael Elias DeBakey was a world-renowned Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman...
, cardiac surgery - Clinton Thomas DentClinton Thomas DentClinton Thomas Dent FRCS was an English surgeon, author and mountaineer.-Early life:The fourth surviving son of Thomas Dent, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.-Alpinism:...
, (1850-1912) - Ted EisenbergTed EisenbergTed Eisenberg is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based plastic surgeon who specializes in cosmetic breast surgery. He holds a Guinness World Record for the most breast augmentation surgeries performed in a lifetime -- 3460.-Early years:...
- Evenor (3rd century BC)
- Judah FolkmanJudah FolkmanMoses Judah Folkman was an American medical scientist best known for his research on tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence...
- Walter Freeman, lobotomy
- Atul GawandeAtul GawandeAtul Gawande is an American physician and journalist. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health...
, writer and surgeon, MacArthur Fellow (2006) - Hermes GrilloHermes GrilloHermes C. Grillo was a world-famous thoracic surgeon and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.He was born in Boston in 1923 and died at age 83 in a car accident in Italy on October 14, 2006...
- Sanjay GuptaSanjay GuptaSanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia....
, neurosurgery - Sir Victor HorsleyVictor HorsleySir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley was an accomplished scientist and professor. He was born in Kensington, London. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent and studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, Germany , and in the same year started his career as a house surgeon and...
, neurosurgery - William JardineWilliam Jardine (surgeon)William Jardine was a Scottish physician and merchant. He co-founded the Hong Kong conglomerate Jardine, Matheson and Company. From 1841 to 1843, he was Member of Parliament for Ashburton as a Whig....
- Wilbert Keon
- Gerhard KüntscherGerhard KüntscherGerhard Küntscher was a German surgeon who inaugurated the intramedullary nailing of long bone fractures, a process that was first performed in November 1939 at the University Department of Surgery in Kiel...
- Sir William Lawrence (biologist)
- William MacewenWilliam MacewenSir William Macewen, CB, FRS, was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and of pneumonectomy .-Career:Macewen was born near Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland in 1848 and studied...
, general surgery and neurosurgery - Walter Karl KochWalter Karl KochWalter Karl Koch was a German surgeon best known for the discovery of Koch's triangle, a triangular shaped area in the right atrium of the heart, and of Tawara's node, the atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle.Educated in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the...
- William E. LaddWilliam E. LaddWilliam Eduard Ladd was known as the father of pediatric surgery. He started his career after the devastating explosion of Halifax that occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917.The procedure performed for correcting malrotation is named after him....
- Robert ListonRobert ListonRobert Liston was a pioneering Scottish surgeon, and the son of the Scottish minister and inventor Henry Liston, whose father was also a Robert Liston, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland....
- Joseph PancoastJoseph PancoastJoseph Pancoast was a renowned American surgeon. His name is eponymic to the practice of surgery, in general, and plastic surgery, in particular....
, 19th century American surgeon - Hiram PolkHiram PolkHiram C. Polk, Jr. is native of Jackson, Mississippi and alumnus of Millsaps College and the Harvard Medical School. He served as the Ben A. Reid Professor and Chairman of Surgery at the University of Louisville from 1971–2005. Polk trained in Surgery at Washington University in St...
- Sushruta
- Robert B. SalterRobert B. SalterRobert Bruce Salter, , was a Canadian surgeon and a pioneer in the field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery....
, orthopedic surgery - Ferdinand SauerbruchFerdinand SauerbruchErnst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon.Sauerbruch was born in Barmen , Germany. He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg, the University of Greifswald, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, and the University of Leipzig, from the last of which he graduated in 1902...
, thoracic surgery - Thomas StarzlThomas StarzlThomas E. Starzl is an American physician, researcher, and is an expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation."-Life:...
, transplantation surgery, often called as the father of "modern transplantation". - George H. TichenorGeorge H. TichenorGeorge Humphrey Tichenor was a Kentucky-born physician who introduced antiseptic surgery while in the service of the Confederate States of America. Thereafter, in private practice in Canton , Mississippi, he developed the formula that became "Dr...
- Sid WatkinsSid WatkinsEric Sidney Watkins OBE, FRCS is a world-renowned English neurosurgeon.Watkins served twenty-six years as the FIA Formula One Safety and Medical Delegate, head of the Formula One on-track medical team, and first responder in case of a crash.He is commonly known within the Formula One fraternity as...
, neurosurgeon and former Formula OneFormula OneFormula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
chief medic - Magdi YacoubMagdi YacoubSir Magdi Habib Yacoub, FRS , is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London.Yacoub's major achievements may be summarised:1. Established Heart Transplantation in UK and became leading transplant surgeon in the world....
, heart and lung transplants - Gazi YaşargilGazi YasargilMahmut Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon . He is the founder of microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumors with instruments of his own design...
, founder of micro-neurosurgery - Robert M. ZollingerZollinger-Ellison syndromeZollinger–Ellison syndrome is a triad of gastric acid hypersecretion, severe peptic ulceration, and non-beta cell islet tumor of pancreas . In this syndrome increased levels of the hormone gastrin are produced, causing the stomach to produce excess hydrochloric acid. Often the cause is a tumor of...
External links
- History of Surgeons on surgeons.org.uk
- Orthopaedic Surgeon Directory