Elliott Carr Cutler

Elliott Carr Cutler, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Brig. Gen. Elliott Cutler in 1945 (U.S. Army photograph)
Born	(1888-07-30)July 30, 1888 Bangor, Maine
Died	August 16, 1947(1947-08-16) (aged 59) Brookline, Massachusetts
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1917-1919, 1942-1946
Rank	Brigadier General
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Distinguished Service Medal (2) Legion of Merit Order of the Bath
Relations	Robert Cutler, brother BG Elliott C. Cutler, Jr., son

Elliot Carr Cutler CB, OBE (July 30, 1888 – August 16, 1947) was an American surgeon, military physician, and medical educator. He was Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Surgeon-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1932 to 1947., and a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

Cutler was born on July 30, 1888 in Bangor, Maine. He was the son of George Chalmers Cutler and Mary Franklin Wilson. His father was a lumber merchant. He was named for his maternal grandmother, Mary Elliot Carr (d. 1869), who belonged to a prominent political and mercantile family in Bangor (see Francis Carr). The Carr-Wing House remains a local landmark.

Cutler studied at Harvard College and graduated from that institution in 1909. After completing his A.B., he studied at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and received his M.D. summa cum laude in 1913, ranking first in his class. He studied pathology with Frank Mallory at the Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center) during his fourth year at HMS. He was subsequently awarded the John Harvard Fellowship. He was also elected permanent class president.

After completing his graduation, he spent five months in Europe, mostly in London and at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where he studied pathology with Ludolf von Krehl.

After returning from Germany, he served as surgical intern at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women's Hospital) in Boston, Massachusetts. He joined the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris, France in 1915. He declined the invitation by William S. Halsted to run the Hunterian Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 1916. He studied immunity at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.