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John Heysham Gibbon

John Heysham Gibbon was a pioneering American surgeon instrumental in the development of modern cardiac surgery. His wor...

Pioneer Historical Cardiothoracic Surgery Heart Lung Machine

9.8 Brilliant

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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

9.8 Brilliant

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William Stewart Halsted

William Stewart Halsted was an American surgeon who helped shape modern surgical education at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He...

American General Pioneer Oncology

9.6 Brilliant

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René Favaloro

Rene Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon known for advancing coronary artery bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clini...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.6 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

9.5 Brilliant

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John Kirklin

John Kirklin was an American cardiac surgeon who helped establish reliable open-heart surgery using mechanical cardiopul...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.5 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

9.4 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

9.2 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

9.2 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

9.2 Excellent

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Gavriil Ilizarov

Gavriil Ilizarov was a Soviet orthopedic surgeon associated with Kurgan in western Siberia. In the 1950s he developed a...

Orthopedic Pioneer Soviet External Fixator

9.2 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

9.1 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

8.9 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

8.6 Great

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Ian Taylor

Ian Taylor is an Australian plastic and reconstructive surgeon whose research helped define how arteries supply three-di...

Australian Pioneer Plastic Microsurgery

8.2 Great

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Harold Kleinert

Harold E. Kleinert was an American surgeon associated with Louisville, Kentucky, whose work helped establish modern hand...

American Pioneer Hand Replantation

8.1 Great

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James Urbaniak

James R. Urbaniak is an American orthopedic surgeon associated with Duke University and known for work in hand surgery a...

American Pioneer Hand Replantation

7.9 Good

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Joseph Boyes

Joseph H. Boyes was an American orthopedic and hand surgeon whose work helped establish hand surgery as a distinct surgi...

American Pioneer Hand Microsurgery

7.7 Good

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Rollin Daniel

American plastic surgeon who made early pioneering contributions to free tissue transfer and microsurgical reconstructio...

American Pioneer Plastic Microsurgery

7.6 Good

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Robert Chase

Robert Chase was an American plastic and hand surgeon at Stanford University who helped advance hand surgery as a recogn...

American Pioneer Plastic Stanford

7.3 Good