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List of surgeons

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These are lists of surgeons.

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Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures

  • Claudius Amyand, performed the first Appendicectomy
  • Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
  • William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
  • John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), first open heart surgery
  • John Hunter, first aneurysm operation and founder of early schools of anatomy
  • 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.
  • Paul Randall Harrington, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod.
  • Paolo Macchiarini, first stem cell grown trachea transplant.
  • Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique (MMS) aka Mohs surgery in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions.
  • Richard Lehman (surgeon), pioneered several orthopedic surgeries

    • Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery

  • Moshe Gueron, best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
  • Victor Chang
  • Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), creator of radial keratotomy
  • Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy
  • Gavril Ilizarov, Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
  • Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
  • Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
  • Norman Bethune, Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
  • John Heysham Gibbon, invented the heart-lung machine.
  • William Stewart Halsted, remembered for his emphasis on aseptic technique during surgical procedures.

    • Fame and longevity

  • John Ronald Brown (1922–2010), notorious incompetent, convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a patient.
  • Fyodor Uglov, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon
  • Paul Spangler Naval surgeon, senior Long distance runner
  • David Hayes Agnew
  • Norman Bethune (1890–1939), battlefield surgery
  • Theodor Billroth, stomach resection
  • Ben Carson
  • William Cheselden
  • Realdo Colombo (c. 1516–1559)
  • Abraham Colles (1773–1843)
  • Denton A. Cooley, cardiac surgery, first total artificial heart (TAH) implantation
  • Astley Cooper
  • S. Natarajan, noted Indian vitreo retinal surgeon
  • John Green Crosse, MD, FRCS, FRS (1790 to 1850), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
  • Harvey Cushing, neurosurgery
  • Michael E. DeBakey, cardiac surgery
  • Clinton Thomas Dent, (1850–1912)
  • Ted Eisenberg
  • Evenor (3rd century BC)
  • Judah Folkman
  • Walter Freeman, lobotomy
  • Atul Gawande, writer and surgeon, MacArthur Fellow (2006)
  • Hermes Grillo
  • Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgery
  • Sir Victor Horsley, neurosurgery
  • William Jardine
  • Wilbert Keon
  • Gerhard Küntscher
  • Sir William Lawrence (biologist)
  • William Macewen, general surgery and neurosurgery
  • Walter Karl Koch
  • William E. Ladd
  • Robert Liston
  • Joseph Pancoast, 19th century American surgeon
  • Hiram Polk
  • Sushruta
  • Robert B. Salter, orthopedic surgery
  • Ferdinand Sauerbruch, thoracic surgery
  • Nancy Snyderman
  • Thomas Starzl, transplantation surgery, often called as the father of "modern transplantation"
  • George H. Tichenor
  • Sid Watkins, neurosurgeon and former Formula One chief medic
  • Magdi Yacoub, heart and lung transplants
  • Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
  • Robert M. Zollinger
  • Michael Salzhauer, plastic surgeon

    • References

    List of surgeons Wikipedia
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