Evarts Ambrose Graham
| Evarts Ambrose Graham, M.D. | |
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| Born |
March 19, 1883 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | March 4, 1957 (aged 73) St. Louis, Missouri |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Residence | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Education | Princeton University; Rush Medical College |
| Employer | Washington University School of Medicine |
| Known for | Research in surgery and radiology; first surgeon to ever perform a successful pneumonectomy for lung cancer |
| Home town | Chicago, Illinois |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Tredway, Ph.D. |
| Children | David Tredway Graham, M.D.; Evarts A. Graham, Jr. |
Evarts Ambrose Graham, M.D., F.A.C.S. (1883–1957) was an American academic, physician, and surgeon.
Born in Chicago, Illinois to a surgeon, Dr. David Wilson Graham, and Ida Ansbach Barned Graham, Evarts attended college at Princeton University (A.B., 1904) and received his M.D. degree from Rush Medical College in 1907. Graham then trained as a surgery resident at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, and subsequently as a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Chicago. There, he met his wife, Helen Tredway, Ph.D. (1890-1971), a biochemist and pharmacologist. Evarts served as a Major (O4) in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1917 to 1919, and was initially posted to Camp Lee (now Fort Lee, Virginia). He completed revolutionary new work on surgical technique for the treatment of empyema, which had become important following the influenza pandemic of 1918. Afterwards, Dr. Graham served in France as commander of U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital 34.
Following his discharge from military service, he was recruited to Washington University in St. Louis, MO as the Bixby Professor of Surgery. An expert thoracic surgeon, he was best known for collaborating with Drs. Jacob J. Singer, Kenneth Bell, and William Adams on the first successful removal of a lung for the treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma in 1933. The patient was another physician (an obstetrician-gynecologist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Dr. James Lee Gilmore. In 1924, together with fellow surgeon Warren Henry Cole, Graham developed the technique of cholecystography, the first procedure for imaging the gallbladder and detecting the presence of cholelithiasis. Dr. Graham was instrumental in founding the American Board of Surgery in 1937 and he was active as a medical editor and author. Graham was Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Surgery & the Journal of Thoracic Surgery, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Surgery.
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