Notable Staff
- Jeremy Swan co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter together with William Ganz while at Cedars.
- Keith Black Department chair of neurosurgery and director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute. Successfully preformed over 4,000 brain surgeries and has made significant medical advances relating to neurosurgery.
- David Ho was a resident at Cedars when he encountered some of the first cases of what was later labelled AIDS.
- Verne Mason, internist and chairman of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s medical advisory committee. Mason gave the disease sickle cell anemia its name.
- David Rimoin, Chair of Pediatrics for 18 years, specialized in genetics and was a pioneer researcher in dwarfism and skeletal dysplasia. Together with Michael Kaback, discovered the enzyme screening for Tay Sachs disease, reducing incidences of the deadly disease by 90%.
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