List of surgeons

These are lists of notable surgeons.

Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures
  • Claudius Amyand, performed the first Appendicectomy
  • Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
  • William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
  • Paul Randall Harrington, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod.
  • John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), first open heart surgery
  • Simon Hullihen, The Father of Oral Surgery
  • John Hunter, first aneurysm operation and founder of early schools of anatomy
  • Leonard B. Kaban, Walter C. Guralnick Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University, pioneer in oral, maxillofacial and craniofacial surgery
  • Richard Lehman (surgeon), pioneered several orthopedic surgeries
  • Paolo Macchiarini, first stem cell grown trachea transplant.
  • Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique (MMS) aka Mohs surgery in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions.
  • Dallas B. Phemister, developed the Phemister graft and early innovator in orthopedics
  • Theodore H. Schwartz, first center in New York City to use intraoperative MRI scanning during endoscopic pituitary surgery
  • Lall Sawh, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
  • Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.

Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery
  • Moshe Gueron, best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
  • Victor Chang
  • Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), creator of radial keratotomy
  • Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy
  • Gavril Ilizarov, Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
  • Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
  • Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
  • Norman Bethune, Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
  • John Heysham Gibbon, invented the heart-lung machine.

See also
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