- Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar, M.D. (June 7, 1909 - August 7, 1974) was an American physician who specialised in anesthesia and pediatrics and who introduced the first test, called the Apgar score, to assess the health of newborn babies. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929, and the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1933. In 1949, Dr. Apgar became the first woman to become a full professor at Columbia P&S. - Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, MD, is an anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona known for his promotion of the scientific study of consciousness, and his speculative theories of the mechanisms of consciousness. His early research suggested to him that part of the solution to the problem of understanding consciousness may lie in understanding the operations of microtubules in brain cells, operations at the molecular and supramolecular level. - Crawford Long
Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 - June 16, 1878) was an American physician and pharmacist. He was born in Danielsville, Madison County, Georgia. He received his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. He performed the first surgical operation in general anesthesia induced by ether. Although William T.G. Morton is well-known for performing his historic anesthesia on October 18, 1846 in Boston, Massachusetts, … - Horace Wells
Horace Wells was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anaesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Born in Vermont, Wells was educated in Walpole, New Hampshire before studying dentistry in Boston. After obtaining a degree, Wells set up a practice in Hartford, Connecticut, with an associate named William T.G. Morton, who would become famous for his use of ether as an anesthesia on October 18, 1846. - James Young Simpson
Sir James Young Simpson, (June 7, 1811 born in Bathgate, West Lothian, died at his home in Edinburgh, May 6, 1870), was a Scottish doctor and important figure in the history of medicine. He received an education at the local school and entered the University of Edinburgh when he was 14 years old. He became a Licentiate in 1830 before graduating in 1832. - William T.G. Morton
William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 - July 15, 1868) was an American dentist and physician. He was born in Charlton, Massachusetts. He received his (honorary) M.D. at Washington University in Baltimore in 1852. He administered ether before a surgical operation at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. Morton's successful public demonstration of ether as an inhalation anesthetic on September 30, 1846, was an historic and widely publicized event. - Aryeh Shander
Aryeh Shander, MD is an anesthesiologist who is especially regarded for his innovations and skill in performing bloodless procedures. He has authored numerous articles and many books in the fields of anesthesiology, critical care, transfusion medicine and other disciplines. He has also been the primary investigator for tens of clinical trials and many other cutting-edge medical studies. - August Bier
August Karl Gustav Bier was the German pioneer of spinal anaesthesia. After professorships in Greifswald and Bonn Bier became a professor at the Charité in Berlin. Bier's breakthrough in spinal anaesthesia was made in 1898 when he performed the first planned spinal anaesthetic on his assistant, one Dr. Hildebrandt. Initially Bier himself was to have been the subject, but although the spinal needle was placed correctly, with spinal fluid flowing freely from it, … - Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on September 15, 1921), an English surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere has written several novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with "Doctor in the House", and their film, … - Scott Wolf
Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He attended The George Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance. He also became a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Wolf is known for his role as Bailey Salinger on "Party of Five". On both "Everwood" and the short-lived "The Nine", … - Tom Hornbein
Thomas "Tom" Hornbein is a well known American mountaineer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1930, Hornbein developed an interest in geology as a teenager. His study of geology led to a fascination with mountains. Eventually he also became interested in medicine; he studied and worked as an anesthesiologist. He studied human physiological limits and performance at high altitude. - Philip H. Sechzer
Dr. Philip H. Sechzer (1914-2004) was a pioneer in anesthesiology and pain management. He was the inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), now commonly used post-operatively. - Thomas Cecil Gray
Professor Thomas Cecil Gray born 11 March 1913 in Liverpool. He pioneered modern Anaesthetic techniques. Born in Liverpool in 1913, he qualified in medicine at The University of Liverpool in 1937. He began his career as a General Practitioner before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps. He later returned to the University to become Head of the Department of Anaesthesia and was made Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1970, retiring in 1976. - Edwin Kagin
Edwin Frederick Kagin, J.D., (born November 26, 1940) is an attorney at law in Union, Kentucky, and the founder of Camp Quest, the first secular summer camp in the United States for the children of freethinkers. He is married to Helen McGregor Kagin, a Canadian of Scottish descent from Regina, Saskatchewan, who is a retired anesthesiologist. - Benjamin Taimoorazy
Benjamin Taimoorazy, M.D., (b. May 16, 1961 in Tehran, Iran). an Assyrian anesthesiologist After emigrating from Iran in 1988, he worked in Germany for a year and a half, and later completed his anesthesiology residency at Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He was staff anesthesiologist at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, Illinois for three years before starting Anesthesiology Consultants in 1998. - Marcel Junod
Marcel Junod (May 14, 1904 - June 16, 1961) was a Swiss doctor and one of the most accomplished field delegates in the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). After medical school and a short position as a surgeon in Mulhouse, France, he became an ICRC delegate and was deployed in Ethiopia during the Abyssinian war, in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and in Europe as well as in Japan during World War II. In 1947, … - Andrew Doughty
Andrew Doughty was a leading anesthetist. In 1957, he invented the Doughty gag, with a split blade, (which allows use of an endotracheal tube) and is in universal use to this day. In 1973, he set up an epidural course at Kingston Hospital. He was born in 1916 and qualified from St Thomas's Hospital in 1941. Doughty is now retired living in Kingston-upon-Thames. - Gordon Ostlere
Gordon Ostlere (born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on September 15, 1921) is an English surgeon and anaesthetist. Under the pseudonym Richard Gordon, he has written several novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is perhaps best known for his series of humorous novels, beginning with "Doctor in the House", … - Jean Ramjohn-Richards
Dr. Jean Ramjohn-Richards (b. 1935) is the First Lady of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and a medical doctor. She was born in San Fernando and was educated at Naparima Girls' High School and Naparima College before attending medical school in Ireland. She is married to President George Richards and has two children. She is a cousin of former President Noor Hassanali and Olympian Manny Ramjohn. In addition to her duties as First Lady, Dr. - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vishnevskiy
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vishnevskiy was a Soviet surgeon, member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1953), honoured worker of science of RSFSR (1956), Colonel General of Medical Corps (1963) and a Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Vishnevskiy first conducted a cardiac surgery under the local anesthesia (1953). A son of Aleksandr Vasilyevich Vishnevskiy, he elaborated the new methods regarding the gunshot wounds treatment on the Eastern Front of World War II. - Professor John Dundee
Professor John Dundee, OBE, M.B, M.D, Ph. D, F.F.R.A.C.S, F.F.R.A.C.S.I, F.F.R.C.A, A.T.C.L, M.R.C.S (1921 - 1991) was one of the world's leading anaesthetists. He was a Professor and founder of the anaesthetics department at Queen's University of Belfast, held the Chair at the Royal College of Surgeons and worked as an anaesthetist and surgeon in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and had a hugely successful career in medicine. - Saleh Meki
Saleh Meki was a member of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front offices in the San Francisco Bay Area before he returned to Eritrea. He was appointed and confirmed as the first Minister of Marine Resources. During a Cabinet reshuffle he was transferred to the Ministry of Health. He was trained as an Anesthesiologist in the United States. - Gabriel G. Nahas
Dr. Gabriel Nahas of Columbia University was an anesthesiologist who conducted numerous studies on illicit drugs. His work was instrumental in establishing the harms associated with cannabis. These reports were later found both false and unscientific. Nahas himself has even came out saying that these studies were meaningless. One of Nahas' studies included suffocating monkeys with more smoke at one time than most cannabis users could inhale throughout their entire lifes. - Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle
Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (born 2 April 1875, died 15 October 1941) was a pioneering anaesthetist. Originally born in Barbados; he qualified MRCS LRCP from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He is best remembered for the development of early anaesthetic machines. Even until recently, an anaesthetic machine would often be referred to as a "Boyle's Machine" in honour of his contribution in this field. - Kenneth Angus Munn
Colonel Kenneth Angus Munn CD QHP MD was born June 16, 1938 in Montreal, Quebec, to Daniel James Munn and Margaret Anne Moodie. Col. Munn grew up in the neighbourhood of Westmount until the age of eight when the family moved to Alberta and he began to attend Strathcona Tweedsmere private school. He attended this school until high school when he was transferred to Central Memorial High School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. - Dr Mary Pauline Collins
Mary Pauline Collins (born 29 June 1924) (known to family and friends as Paula Collins) is a retired Irish Medical Doctor who had a distinguished career in the speciality of anaesthesiology. She worked for over 40 years as a consultant anaesthetist in various locations in the UK, including Hull and Scunthorpe where she practiced as a Consultant Anaesthetist in Scunthorpe General Hospital. After her retirement she returned to live in Ireland. - Carola Ivena Meikle
Carola Ivena Meikle was a British algologist, or anesthesiologist with specialty training in pain management. She was born in 1900 in Alston, Cumberland, and died in 1970 in Wootton Courtney, Somerset in 1970. Meikle was the author of "British Seaweeds", published in 1963 as part of the Kew Series by Eyre and Spottiswoode. - Dr Michael Fredric Roizen MD
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- John Snow
John Snow (16 March 1813 - 16 June 1858) was a British physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene, and is considered one of the fathers of epidemiology for his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, Westminster, England in 1854. - Dr Pavan Anand MD
- Michael J. Breslow
Michael J. Breslow , MD, FCCM Executive Vice President for Clinical Research and Development Co-Founder mbreslow@VISICU.com Dr. Breslow is an intensivist who has practiced critical care medicine for twenty years. Prior to founding VISICU, Dr. Breslow was associate professor of anesthesia, internal medicine, and surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. - Dr Lawrence Stanley Gorfine MD
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- Dr Leonard Barry Seeff MD
Leonard B. Seeff, M.D. Born in South Africa, Dr. Seeff graduated from the Medical School of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1961. He came to the United States in late 1964 to work with Dr. Hyman J. Zimmerman, then Chief of the Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical School. - Guy
Name's Guy. I'm an odd mix of Japanese / Chinese. Average height / weight (52nd percentile on height and 54th on weight). Employed. Have a car. Obsessed with tennis. I think I'm obsessed with this thing called "learning." I have a passion for trying to find out how things work, why things are they way they are, and how I can reach self-actualization. To pass the time I'm usually hanging out with friends, playing tennis, working out, or studying at UW. - Dr Wilhelmina C Korevaar MD
- Dr Harlan Robert Ribnik MD
World traveler, soldier, explorer, aviator, scuba diver, mountaineer.
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