Evarts Ambrose Graham

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Evarts Ambrose Graham
St. Louis, Missouri, US
EducationPrinceton University; Rush Medical College
EmployerWashington University School of Medicine
Known forResearch in surgery and radiology; first surgeon to ever perform a successful pneumonectomy for lung cancer
Spouse(s)Helen Tredway, Ph.D.[1]
Children2
AwardsLister Medal (1942)

Evarts Ambrose Graham (March 19, 1883– March 4, 1957) was an American

academic, physician, and surgeon
.

Early years and military service

Born in

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.[5] Afterwards, Graham served in France as commander of U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital 34.[6]

Career at Washington University

Following his discharge from military service, he was recruited to

cholelithiasis. Graham was instrumental in founding the American Board of Surgery in 1937 and he was active as a medical editor and author.[10] Graham was Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Surgery & the Journal of Thoracic Surgery, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Surgery.[11]

Graham served as the chairman of the department of surgery at

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).[12]

Illness and death

Graham himself had been a long-time cigarette smoker until his own research, known as the 1950 Wynder and Graham Study, supported a link between smoking and disease, and he ironically died from lung cancer in 1957.[13] He was survived by his wife and two sons—Evarts A. Graham Jr. (1921–1996), an editor,[14] and David Tredway Graham (1918–1999), an internist. Evarts Graham's seminal lung cancer surgery patient in 1933, Gilmore, also outlived him by six years, dying in 1963 at the age of 78.[15]

Honors and awards

In 1941, Graham was elected to the

Western Reserve University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago. Named lectureships included the Harvey, Mutter, McArthur, Shattuck, Alvarez, Joyce, Arthur Dean Bevan, Caldwell, Balfour, and Judd Lectures.[11]

References

  1. ^ wustl.edu
  2. ^ Time
  3. ^ "Evarts Ambrose Graham" (PDF). National Academy of Science. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  4. ^ Anonymous: Evarts A. Graham (1883-1957). Radiology 1957; 68: 747-748.
  5. ^ Ibid.
  6. ^ Dragstedt LR: Evarts Ambrose Graham (1883-1957): A Biographical Memoir. National Academy of Sciences Press, Washington, D.C., 1976.
  7. ^ Horn L, Johnson DH: Evarts A. Graham and the first pneumonectomy for lung cancer. J Clin Oncol 2008; 19: 3268-3275.
  8. ^ Baue AE: Landmark perspective: Evarts A. Graham and the first pneumonectomy. JAMA 1984; 251: 260-264.
  9. ^ http://magazine-archives.wustl.edu/fall03/EvartsGraham.ht[permanent dead link]ml
  10. ^ Mueller CB: Evarts A. Graham: The Life & Times of the Surgical Spirit of St. Louis. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, BC Decker, Inc., 2002.
  11. ^ a b Op cit., ref. 5
  12. ^ Wynder EL, Graham EA: Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma: a study of 684 proven cases. JAMA 1950; 143: 329-336.
  13. ^ Anonymous: Evarts A. Graham (1883-1957). CA Cancer J Clin 1974; 24: 236-237.
  14. ^ "Evarts A. Graham Journalist, 75". NY Times. 13 March 1996.
  15. ^ Anonymous: Evarts A. Graham (1883-1957). CA Cancer J Clin 1974; 24: 236-237., ref. 6
  16. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  17. ^ "Evarts A. Graham". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  18. ^ Announcement of the award of the Lister Medal - Nature 148, 500-500 (25 October 1941).
  19. ^ Some Aspects of Bronchogenic Carcinoma, Evarts A. Graham, Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1947 November; 1(5): 248–264.
  20. ^ Op cit., ref. 3.

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