Allen Whipple

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For the Nobel laureate after whom Whipple's disease is named, see George Whipple.

Allen Oldfather Whipple (September 2, 1881 – April 6, 1963) was an American surgeon who is known for the

Whipple procedure) as well as Whipple's triad
.

Whipple was born to missionary parents William Levi Whipple and Mary Louise Whipple (née Allen), in

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center where he served from 1921 to 1946. He began work on the procedure for resection of the pancreas
(pancreaticoduodenectomy) in 1935 and his original technique has since been modified greatly. In 1940, he shortened the procedure into a one-stage process. During his lifetime, Whipple performed 37 pancreaticoduodenectomies.

He also is known for developing the diagnostic triad for insulinoma known as Whipple's triad.

He supervised the surgical residency of

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
, by which the health of newborns is evaluated to this day.

Whipple was instrumental in founding the American Board of Surgery. He also was trustee of Princeton University and was a recipient of the 1958 Woodrow Wilson Award.

Though he is not related to

Tropheryma whipplei — the two were lifelong friends.[1]

The Science Building at Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut, is named after Whipple, who served as President of Wooster's Board of Trustees when the school's founder, Rev. Aaron Coburn, died. In the later years of his life he lived in Show Low, Arizona.

References

  1. doi:10.1016/S0016-5085(99)70485-3
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