- List of surgeons
Below follows a list of famous surgeons and
cardiologists :*
David Hayes Agnew
*Christiaan Barnard , cardiac surgery, firstheart transplantation
*Norman Bethune (1890-1939), battlefield surgery.
*Theodor Billroth , stomach resection
*John Ronald Brown (1922- ). A notorious incompetent, convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a patient.
*Ben Carson
*Victor Chang
*William Cheselden
*Moshe Gueron best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
*Realdo Colombo (c. 1516-1559)
*Abraham Colles (1773-1843)
*Denton Cooley
*Astley Cooper
*John Green Crosse , MD, FRCS, FRS (1790 to 1850), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
*Harvey Cushing , neurosurgery
*Michael E. DeBakey , cardiac surgery
*William DeVries , first permanent artificial heart transplant
*Clinton Thomas Dent , (1850-1912)
*Evenor (3rd century BC)
*Walter Freeman ,lobotomy
*Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927-2000), creator ofradial keratotomy
*John Heysham Gibbon (1903-1973), first open heart surgery
*Sanjay Gupta , neurosurgery
* SirVictor Horsley , neurosurgery
* John Hunter, first aneurysm operation
*Gavril Ilizarov a Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
* William Jardine
* Wilbert Keon
*Gerhard Küntscher
* SirWilliam Lawrence (biologist)
*Lars Leksell , neurosurgery, inventor ofradiosurgery
*William Macewen , general surgery and neurosurgery
*Walter Karl Koch
*Joseph Lister , discoverer of surgicalasepsis
*Robert Liston
*Joseph Pancoast , 19th century American surgeon
*Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon andhumanitarian , early proponent ofuniversal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
*Hiram Polk
*Lall Sawh , C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
*Sushruta
*Robert B. Salter , orthopedic surgery
*Ferdinand Sauerbruch , thoracic surgery
*George H. Tichenor
*Fyodor Uglov , listed in theGuinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon
*Sid Watkins , neurosurgeon and formerFormula One chief medic
*Michael Woodruff , transplantation pioneer.
*Magdi Yacoub , heart and lung transplants
* Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
* Robert M. ZollingerSee also
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Surgery External links
* [http://www.surgeons.org.uk/history-of-surgeons/index.html History of Surgeons] on surgeons.org.uk
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