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History of Surgery Poster Competition 2018

First Place

Carbolic Acid before Joseph Lister
John D. Ehrhardt, Jr.
Don K. Nakayama, MD FACS
J. Patrick O’Leary, MD FACS


Second Place

John M. Howard: A Pioneer in Vascular, Trauma, and Pancreatic surgery
Justin A. Julian
Jonathan Demeter, MD
Sayed A. Hussain, MD
Francis C. Brunicardi, MD, FACS
Joseph J. Sferra, MD, FACS

Don K. Nakayama, MD FACS (center), Chair of the Surgical History Group, with first and second place winners John D. Ehrhardt, Jr. (right) and Justin A. Julian (left)
Don K. Nakayama, MD FACS (center), Chair of the Surgical History Group, with first and second place winners John D. Ehrhardt, Jr. (right) and Justin A. Julian (left)

Other Posters Presented

Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray: Redefining Gender Roles in Military Medicine
Jenny M. Held, MD
Don K. Nakayama, MD, FACS


Edoardo Bassini, Master of Surgery and Life
Marcoandrea Giorgi, MD


William Bovie: The Father of Electrosurgery
Katie Marrero, BS, MA
Abbey L. Fingeret, MD


Denis Burkitt and The Power of Observation
David C. Knight, MB, BCh
Daniel Ricaurte, MD
Nathan G. LaFayette, MD
John N. Dussel, MD


September 1918:  An Unforgettable Month for New England Surgeons 100 Years Ago
David E. Clark, MD


Rupert B. Turnbull Jr., Norma Gill and the First School of Enterostomal Therapy
Dominykas Burneikis, MD
Talia Burneikis, MD
Sally Gill-Thompson, ET
James S. Wu, MD, FACS
Tracy L. Hull, MD, FACS


The Man Behind the Clagett Procedure: O. T. Clagett
Pouya Hemmati, MD
Arman Arghami
Joseph A. Dearani, MD, FACS
Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, FACS
Richard C. Daly
Francis C. Nichols III, MD, FACS


Damage Control Surgery: A Hidden Treasure Rediscovered
Timothy R. Harris
Ryland S. Stucke, MD
David J. Mancini, MD


The History of Surgical Staplers: A Combination of Hungarian, Russian and American Innovation
Alicia D. Gaidry, MD
Laurier J. Tremblay, Jr., MD, FACS
Peter W. Soballe, MD, FACS
Romeo C. Ignacio, MD, FACS


The Guinea Pig Club: How Dr. Archibald McIndoe Changed the Field of Burn and Reconstructive Surgery
Matthew Carr, MD
Romeo C. Ignacio, MD, FACS


Mothers of Medicine: A History of Women in Surgery
Jessica Stewart, BA
Carolena Trocchia
Erin Dickey, MBS


Bariatric Surgery: The evolution from aesthetics to metabolic surgery
Allison C. Estep, MD
Richard F. Heitmiller, II, MD, FACS


Electrosurgery: The History of Applying Energy to Surgical Practice
Christopher L. Kalmar, MD, MBA
Richard C. Gilmore, MD


Leeches: Surgeons’ Bloodsucking Sidekicks
Laura L. Stafman, MD
Elizabeth A. Beierle, MD, FACS


Claude Couinaud’s Le Foie: How the Breakthrough Discovery of Liver Segmentation Paved The Way for Liver Surgery
Jacob E. Hardy, MD
Tommy G. Stuleanu
Jad Abou-Khalil, MD, CM, MSc, FRCSC


Born in the Bronx: The Truth Behind the World’s First Coronary Artery Bypass Operation
Maha Haqqani, MHS
Aksim G. Rivera, MD, FACS


Rudolph Nissen’s Dilemma–Surgical Ethics Versus Self Preservation
Ilan I Maizlin, MD
Sergey Yalonetsky, MD
Jason Sample, MD, FACS


Dr. C. Walton Lillehei: At the Heart of a Cardiac Surgeon, Scientist, and Educator
Omar Toubat, BA
Fred M. Wu, MD