Famous Surgeons

Surgery has been around, though not in its modern form, for centuries.  Famous surgeons- and infamous ones- have made surgical history as this practice has grown and developed into what we know today.  We’ve decided to skip the infamy and tell you about the famous surgeons.

Famous surgeons who pioneered particular procedures:

• John Hunter, first aneurysm operation
• Christiaan Barnard, first heart transplant
• William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
• John Heysham Gibbon, first open heart surgery

Famous surgeons who contributed to surgery with research and inventions:

• Lars Leksell, inventor of radiosurgery
• Moshe Gueron, researched interaction of poison with the human heart