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History of Surgery Poster Competition 2019

First Place

A Long Way to Washington: Establishing Surgical Care for Black Appalachians in the Early 20th Century
Tom Liu, BA
Katherine L. Howe, MD
Michael S. Nussbaum, MD FACS


Second Place

Surgeons in the Colonial Development of America's Oldest City, St. Augustine, Florida
John D. Ehrhardt, Jr., BS
J. Patrick O’Leary, MD FACS

Richard A. Lynn, MD FACS (second from left), Chair of the 2019 History of Surgery Poster Competition, with first place winners (from left) Tom Liu, Katherine Howe, MD, and Michael Nussbaum, MD FACS
Richard A. Lynn, MD FACS (second from left), Chair of the 2019 History of Surgery Poster Competition, with first place winners (from left) Tom Liu, Katherine Howe, MD, and Michael Nussbaum, MD FACS
Richard A. Lynn, MD FACS (right) with second place winner John D. Ehrhardt, Jr.
Richard A. Lynn, MD FACS (right) with second place winner John D. Ehrhardt, Jr.

Other Posters Presented

Changing the face of crime: reshaping futures with plastic surgery
Emily C. Wirtz, MD
Elizabeth Barthold Dreesen, MD FACS


Transcending Boundaries: Dr. Clive O. Callender and Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr.
Vironka R. Davis, MS
Marcus Yarbrough, MD


"To the Shores of Tripoli": An Example of Ethical Difficulties Faced by U.S. Navy Surgeons in the First Barbary War
John M. Becker, BS
Daniel Ferman, ENS, MC, USNR


International Female Surgeon Pioneers: Paving the Way for Generations to Come
Erica K. Ludi, MD
Monica Vera Zalles, MD
Laurenss Fabiola Villazon Antenzana, MD
Mamta Swaroop, MD FACS
Jorge Esteban Foianini Gutierrez, MD FACS


Paul Tessier: Porquois Pas?
Hope Xu, BS
Collin Rozanski, BA
Peter Taub, MD FACS FAAP


Sven-Ivar Seldinger: The Man Behind The Seldinger Technique
William L. Jackson, MS
Charles D. Williams, MD FACS


Walter Bradford Cannon: Shock Trauma Pioneer and Founder of the Concept of "Stop the Bleed"
Mary A. Decoteau, MD
Michelle T. Roper, MD
Romeo C. Ignacio, MD FACS


Surgery in Captivity: The Story of POW Surgeons Along the Thai-Burma Railway
Sarah J. Mathew, MD
Adrian W. Ong, MD FACS


History and Emergence of the Modern Surgical Airway - Over Five Millennia of Cricothyrotomy, Tracheostomy, and Intubation
Zachary Sanford, MD


Pirogov’s Triage: A Surgeon’s Adaptation in the Crimean War, 1853-1856
Alec C. Egan, MS
Clayton E. Wagner, MS
John A. Griswold, MD FACS


From Ancient Text to Digital Imagery: A Brief History on the Evolution of Anatomic Illustrations
Nathan S. Rubalcava, MD
Danielle Thornburg, MD
Christina Momchev, BS
Michael Raffetto, BS
Samir S. Gadepalli, MD MBA MS


Sir William M Bayliss: a Medical School Drop-Out Who Became the Founder of Modern Physiology
Julia R. Coleman, MD MPH
Ernest E. Moore, MD FACS


Sushruta: Revisiting our Roots
Shawn Izadi, BS
Zachary Donoviel, BS
Jeffrey Skubic, DO
Samuel Kevin Snyder, MD FACS


The Impact of US Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Dr. A. Sterling Bunnell During and Post WWII on Amputation Guidelines and the Advent of the Subspecialty of Hand Surgery Through the Development of US Army Hand Centers
Ravi Viradia, MD
Bryan K. Richmond, MD FACS


Bottom's Up! Rectal Nutrition in Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
Natalie Gulrajani
Alison Hurst
Justin Barr, MD PhD


Lester Martin and His Endorectal Pull-through Procedure for Ulcerative Colitis
Byron D. Hughes, MD MPH
Don Nakayama, MD MBA FACS


Conrad Jobst: From Illness to Innovation
Lindsey J. Loss, BS
Fedor Lurie, MD PhD
Gregory Kasper, MD FACS
F.C. Brunicardi, MD FACS
Joseph J. Sferra, MD FACS


“It Will Work”: The Story of Nina Starr Braunwald and the First Successful Mitral Valve Replacement
Shridevi Singh, MD
George L.D. Angus, MD MPH FACS