Evarts Ambrose Graham

Evarts Ambrose Graham

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birth_date = Birth date|1883|03|19
birth_place = Chicago, Illinois
death_date = Death date|1957|03|04
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Evarts Ambrose Graham (1883-1957) was a professor and a physician.

Born in Chicago, Illinois to a surgeon, Graham received his M.D. degree from Rush Medical College, in 1907 An expert thoracic surgeon, he was best know for, along with J. J. Singer, the successful removal of a lung in fighting cancer. And with Warren Henry Cole he developed the technique of cholecystography. He was instrumental in founding the American Board of Surgery in 1937 and he was active as a medical editor and writer.

He served as the chairman of the department of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine from 1919 to 1951. Graham and his assistant, Ernst L. Wynder, conducted the first large-scale research on smoking and published their results in a 1950 "Journal of the American Medical Association" (JAMA).

Graham himself, who had been a heavy smoker until his own research began to suggest a link between smoking and disease, died from lung cancer in 1957 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809201-2,00.html] .


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