Thomas Jefferson University alumni
Thomas Jefferson University's notable alumni include:
- Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1833–1900), American physician and pioneer in internal medicine
- John Chalmers Da Costa (1863–1933), chair of the Jefferson Medical College Department of Surgery
- Fisk Holbrook Day (1826–1903), American doctor and geologist.[1]
- Isaac Newton Evans (1827–1901), represented Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1879 and 1883 to 1887.[2]
- Carlos Juan Finlay (1833–1915), epidemiologist who discovered mosquitoes as vector of yellow fever
- William S. Forbes (1831–1905), American physician and anatomist.
- John H. Gibbon, Jr. (1903–1973), developed first successful heart-lung machine
- Samuel D. Gross (1805–1884), pioneering American surgeon
- John Martyn Harlow, American physician primarily remembered for his attendance on brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage.[3][4]
- Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958) pioneering American laryngologist
- William Williams Keen (1837–1932) American surgeon who assisted in surgery on President Grover Cleveland
- S. Weir Mitchell, (1829–1914), American experimental physiologist and neurologist
- Thomas J. Nasca, M.D., M.A.C.P., Current Chief Executive Director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education which Accredits Residency Training Programs in the United States.[5]
- Ninian Pinkney, (1811–1877) U.S. Navy medical director, active during the American Civil War.
- Orlando Plummer, (1836–1913) doctor and politician in Oregon.[6]
- David L. Reich, among the first to demonstrate the utility of electronic medical records for large-scale retrospective investigations demonstrating the association of intraoperative hemodynamic abnormalities with adverse postoperative outcomes.[7]
- George R. Robbins (1814–1875), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1859.[8]
- J. Marion Sims (1813–1883), pioneering American gynecologist
- Charles Skelton (1806–1879), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855.[9]
- Edward Robinson Squibb (1819–1900), developed a process to produce pure ether and established E.R. Squibb & Sons, predecessor to Bristol-Myers Squibb.[10]
- Robert Gallo (1937) Co-Discoverer of HIV
References
- ^ http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/97001268.pdf
- ^ George Robbins Robbins, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 25, 2007.
- ^ "Harlow has taken up his residence in Woburn". Middlesex Journal. November 9, 1861.
- ^ John Barnard Swett. "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum". http://www.artandmedicine.com/biblio/authors/Jackson.html.
- ^ Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
- ^ Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 199.
- ^ Anesthesiology.org – Development of a Module for Point-of-care Charge Capture and Submission Using an Anesthesia Information Management System.
- ^ George Robbins Robbins, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 25, 2007.
- ^ Charles Skelton, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 25, 2007.
- ^ Frederick B. Wagner and J. Woodrow Savacool, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University: Legend & Lore (Devon, PA: W.T. Cooke Pub., 1996), 169-173.
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