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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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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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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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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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Percival Bailey

Percival Bailey was an American neurosurgeon, neurologist, and neuropathologist whose research helped shape the modern c...

American Pioneer Neurosurgery Brain Tumor

8.26 Great

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Laligam Sekhar

Laligam N. Sekhar is an Indian-born American neurosurgeon known for treating complex disorders of the skull base and cer...

American Pioneer Vascular Neurosurgery

8.24 Great

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Charles Wilson

Charles B. Wilson was an American neurosurgeon who served for many years as chair of neurological surgery at the Univers...

American Pioneer Neurosurgery Ucsf

7.88 Good

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Ernest Sachs

Ernest Sachs was an American neurosurgeon who contributed to the establishment of neurosurgery as an independent surgica...

American Pioneer Early 20TH Century Brain

7.62 Good

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William Sweet

William H. Sweet was an American neurosurgeon associated for much of his career with Massachusetts General Hospital and...

American Pioneer Neurosurgery Pain

7.50 Good

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Michael Apuzzo

Michael L. J. Apuzzo is an American neurosurgeon and academic associated with the University of Southern California. His...

American Pioneer Laser Usc

7.44 Good

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Robert Grossman

American neurosurgeon who chaired departments at both Baylor College of Medicine and NYU Langone and made contributions...

American Pioneer Trauma Spine

7.30 Good

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Francis Grant

Francis C. Grant was an American neurosurgeon associated with the University of Pennsylvania and the development of neur...

American Pioneer Mid 20TH Century Neurosurgery

7.18 Good

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James Watts

James W. Watts was an American neurosurgeon who worked with psychiatrist Walter Freeman on the development of prefrontal...

American Pioneer Neurosurgery Lobotomy

3.85 Poor