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Gazi Yasargil

Gazi Yasargil is a Turkish-born Swiss neurosurgeon whose work helped establish microneurosurgery as a modern surgical di...

Pioneer Neurosurgery Aneurysm Microsurgery

9.78 Brilliant

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William Stewart Halsted

William Stewart Halsted helped shape modern American surgery through his work at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His approach em...

American General Pioneer Oncology

9.62 Brilliant

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René Favaloro

René Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon whose work at the Cleveland Clinic helped establish coronary artery bypas...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.55 Brilliant

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Walton Lillehei

Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. A...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.53 Brilliant

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John Kirklin

Mechanical support for circulation was central to John Kirklin's contribution to cardiac surgery. An American surgeon wo...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.50 Brilliant

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Lars Leksell

Lars Leksell was a Swedish neurosurgeon who developed influential methods for stereotactic brain surgery. He introduced...

Pioneer Swedish Neurosurgery Gamma Knife

9.36 Excellent

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Judah Folkman

Judah Folkman was an American pediatric surgeon and biomedical researcher who proposed that tumor growth depends on angi...

American Pioneer Pediatric Oncology

9.22 Excellent

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Gavriil Ilizarov

Gavriil Ilizarov was a Soviet orthopedic surgeon associated with Kurgan in western Siberia. During the 1950s, he develop...

Orthopedic Pioneer Soviet External Fixator

9.20 Excellent

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Roberto Spetzler

Roberto Spetzler is a German-born American neurosurgeon associated with the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Wi...

American Vascular Avm Neurosurgery

9.18 Excellent

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James Young Simpson

James Young Simpson was a Scottish obstetrician and physician who introduced chloroform anesthesia into medical practice...

19TH Century Pioneer Scottish Obstetrics

9.18 Excellent

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Andreas Grüntzig

Andreas Gruntzig was a German-born physician who worked in Switzerland and helped found modern interventional cardiology...

Swiss Pioneer Cardiac Angioplasty

9.18 Excellent

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Sushruta

Sushruta was a prominent surgeon from ancient India, living around 800 BCE. He is recognized as the “father of surgery”...

Historical Ancient Plastic Surgery Ayurveda

9.15 Excellent

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Nikolai Pirogov

Nikolai Pirogov was a Russian surgeon, anatomist, and educator whose work influenced military medicine and surgical anat...

Military Russian Anatomy 19TH Century

9.14 Excellent

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Aldo Castañeda

Aldo Castaneda was a Guatemalan-born cardiac surgeon known for advancing operations for congenital heart disease in infa...

Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric Guatemalan American

9.12 Excellent

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Thomas Starzl

Thomas Starzl was a pioneering American surgeon whose work fundamentally advanced transplantation techniques. He is most...

Historical Transplant Surgery Liver Transplant Father Of Transplantation

9.11 Excellent

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Philip Schauer

Philip Schauer is a surgeon specializing in bariatric surgery at Cleveland Clinic. He is recognized for his foundational...

Modern Cleveland Clinic Bariatric Surgery Gastric Bypass

8.00 Great

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Michel Gagner

Michel Gagner is a Canadian bariatric and general surgeon recognized for his contributions to minimally invasive metabol...

Modern Bariatric Surgery Laparoscopic Surgery Duodenal Switch

7.91 Good

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Raul Rosenthal

Raul Rosenthal is an American general and bariatric surgeon serving at the Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Florida, where he...

Modern General Surgery Bariatric Surgery Cleveland Clinic Florida

7.77 Good

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Kelvin Higa

Kelvin Higa is an American surgeon based in Fresno, California, who specializes in minimally invasive and bariatric proc...

Modern Bariatric Surgery Fresno Past President Asmbs

7.77 Good

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Scott Shikora

Scott Shikora is an American surgeon who specializes in metabolic and bariatric procedures. He has held prominent leader...

Modern Bariatric Surgery Metabolic Surgery Former Asmbs President

7.73 Good