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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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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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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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Patrick Walsh

Patrick C. Walsh is an American urologic surgeon known for developing the anatomical approach to radical retropubic pros...

American Pioneer Urological Nerve Sparing

9.10 Excellent

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Albert Starr

Albert Starr is an American cardiac surgeon who worked with engineer Lowell Edwards to develop the Starr-Edwards prosthe...

American Pioneer Cardiac Valve

9.06 Excellent

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Ralph Millard

Ralph Millard was an American plastic surgeon known for developing the rotation-advancement method of unilateral cleft l...

American Pioneer Plastic Cleft Lip

9.05 Excellent

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Evarts Graham

Evarts A. Graham was an American thoracic surgeon who performed the first successful one-stage pneumonectomy for lung ca...

American Pioneer Thoracic Pneumonectomy

9.05 Excellent

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Sterling Bunnell

Sterling Bunnell was an American surgeon whose work helped establish hand surgery as a distinct surgical specialty. Duri...

American Wwii Pioneer Hand

8.88 Great

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Folkert Belzer

Folkert O. Belzer (1930-1995) was an American transplant surgeon whose research focused on preserving organs outside the...

American Pioneer Transplant Kidney

8.82 Great

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Hugh Hampton Young

Hugh Hampton Young (1870-1945) was an American surgeon and urologist associated with Johns Hopkins Hospital. He became t...

American Prostate Pioneer Johns Hopkins

8.78 Great

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Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones Jr. (1918-1985) was an American physician and cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who established select...

American Pioneer Cardiac Coronary

8.78 Great

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Howard Kelly

Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943) was an American gynecologist and one of the four founding professors of the Johns Hopkin...

American 19TH Century Pioneer Johns Hopkins

8.72 Great

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Ernest Amory Codman

Ernest Amory Codman was an American surgeon who advocated systematic measurement and public reporting of medical outcome...

American Orthopedic Pioneer Shoulder

8.72 Great

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Richard Lower

Richard Lower was an American cardiac surgeon who worked with Norman Shumway at Stanford University on the experimental...

American Pioneer Cardiac Heart

8.62 Great

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Harry Buncke

Harry J. Buncke was an American plastic and reconstructive surgeon associated with the development of modern microsurger...

American Pioneer Plastic Microsurgery

8.58 Great

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Dwight Harken

Dwight Harken was an American cardiac surgeon known for advances made during and after the Second World War. While treat...

American Wwii Pioneer Cardiac

8.55 Great

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George Crile Sr.

George Washington Crile was an American surgeon and one of the founders of the Cleveland Clinic, established in 1921 as...

American General Pioneer Thyroid

8.52 Great

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Claude Beck

Claude Beck was an American cardiac surgeon associated with Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals in...

American Pioneer Cardiac Coronary

8.50 Great

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Mark Ravitch

Mark M. Ravitch was an American surgeon whose work encompassed pediatric, thoracic, and gastrointestinal surgery. After...

American Pioneer Pediatric Gastrointestinal

8.40 Great