Surgeon - Pioneer Surgeons

Pioneer Surgeons

For more details on this topic, see List of surgeons.
  • Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (considered the father of modern surgery,)
  • Sushruta (the first to document an operation of open rhinoplasty)
  • Charles Kelman (Invented phacoemulsification, the technique of modern cataract surgery)
  • William Stewart Halsted (initiated surgical residency training in U.S., pioneer in many fields)
  • Alfred Blalock (first modern day successful open heart surgery in 1944)
  • C. Walton Lillehei (labeled "Father of modern day open heart surgery")
  • Christiaan Barnard (cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation)
  • Victor Chang Australian pioneer of heart transplantation
  • John Hunter (Scottish, viewed as the father of modern surgery, performed hundreds of dissections, served as the model for Dr. Jekyll.)
  • Sir Victor Horsley (neurosurgery)
  • Lars Leksell (neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery)
  • Joseph Lister (discoverer of surgical sepsis, Listerine named in his honour)
  • Harvey Cushing (pioneer, and often considered the father of, modern neurosurgery)
  • Gholam A. Peyman (Inventor of LASIK,)
  • Nikolay Pirogov (the founder of field surgery)
  • Lall Sawh (Trinidadian Urologist, pioneer of Kidney transplant surgery and early proponent of Viagra usage)
  • Valery Shumakov (pioneer of artificial organs implantation)
  • Svyatoslav Fyodorov (creator of radial keratotomy)
  • Gazi Yasargil (Turkish neurosurgeon, founder of microneurosurgery)
  • Rene Favaloro (first surgeon to perform bypass surgery)
  • Michael R. Harrison (pioneer of fetal surgery)
  • Michael DeBakey (educator and innovator in the field of cardiac surgery)
  • Fidel Pagés (pioneer of epidural anesthesia)

Read more about this topic:  Surgeon

Famous quotes containing the word pioneer:

    “The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son of earth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)