Evarts Ambrose Graham
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| Evarts Ambrose Graham | |
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| Born | March 19, 1883 Chicago, Illinois |
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| Died | March 04, 1957 |
| Cause of death | lung cancer |
| Spouse | Helen Treadway |
| Children | Dr. David Treadway Graham |
Evarts Ambrose Graham (1883-1957) was a professor and a physician. Born in Chicago, Illinois to a surgeon, Graham received his M.D. from Rush Medical College, in 1907 An expert thoracic surgeon, he was best know for was along with J. J. Singer were the first to successfully removing a lung in fighting cancer. And with Warren Henry Cole he developed the technique of cholecystography. He was instrumental in founding the American Board of Surgery in 1937 and he was active as a medical editor and writer.
He served as the chairman of the department of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine from 1919 to 1951. Graham and his assistant, Ernst L. Wynder, conducted the first large-scale research on smoking and published there results of in a 1950 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Grahm himself, who had been a heavy smoker until his own research began to suggest a link between smoking and disease, died from lung cancer in 1957[[1]].
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