List of surgeons

List of surgeons

Below follows a list of famous surgeons and cardiologists:

* David Hayes Agnew
* Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart 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 of radial keratotomy
* John Heysham Gibbon (1903-1973), first open heart surgery
* Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgery
* Sir Victor 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
* Sir William Lawrence (biologist)
* Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
* William Macewen, general surgery and neurosurgery
* Walter Karl Koch
* Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
* Robert Liston
* Joseph Pancoast, 19th century American surgeon
* Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal 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 the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon
* Sid Watkins, neurosurgeon and former Formula One chief medic
* Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.
* Magdi Yacoub, heart and lung transplants
* Gazi Yaşargil, founder of micro-neurosurgery
* Robert M. Zollinger

See also

* Surgery

External links

* [http://www.surgeons.org.uk/history-of-surgeons/index.html History of Surgeons] on surgeons.org.uk


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