List of surgeons
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These are lists of notable surgeons.
Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures
- Silvano Raia - Raia was the first surgeon to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation in July 1989
- B. K. Misra - First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.[1]
- Claudius Amyand, performed the first Appendicectomy
- Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
- William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
- Eric Mühe, first laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Paul Randall Harrington, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod.
- John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), first open heart surgery
- Simon Hullihen, The Father of Oral Surgery
- John Hunter, first aneurysm operation and founder of early schools of anatomy
- Leonard B. Kaban, Walter C. Guralnick Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University, pioneer in oral, maxillofacial and craniofacial surgery
- Richard Lehman (surgeon), pioneered several orthopedic surgeries
- Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique (MMS) aka Mohs surgery in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions.
- Dallas B. Phemister, developed the Phemister graft and early innovator in orthopedics
- Theodore H. Schwartz, first center in New York City to use intraoperative MRI scanning during endoscopic pituitary surgery
- Lall Sawh, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
- Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.
- Sergelen Orgoi, developed low cost liver transplantation for developing countries
Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery
- Norman Bethune, Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
- Victor Chang
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), creator of radial keratotomy
- John Heysham Gibbon, invented the heart-lung machine.
- Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy
- Moshe Gueron, best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
- Gavril Ilizarov, Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
- Walter Lawrence, Jr., surgical oncologist and leader in civil rights health equity efforts
- Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
- Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
- Kakish Ryskulova, inventor of new techniques in vascular surgery
- Hilda Villegas Castrejón, Mexican surgeon and pioneer in electron microscopy
- Vivien Thomas, developer with Alfred Blalock and Helen B. Taussig of the first congenital heart surgery techniques
See also
References
External links
- History of Surgeons on surgeons.org.uk
- Famous Surgeons on mcqsurgery.com