Surgeon - Pioneer Surgeons

Pioneer Surgeons

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• 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)