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Evarts Ambrose Graham (1883–1957), doyen of pulmonary surgeons

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Evarts Graham performed the first successful pneumonectomy in 1933. Evarts Ambrose Graham, the son of a Scotch Irish surgeon, was born on 19 March 1883. After early schooling in Chicago, he graduated at Princeton and returned to Chicago to study Medicine, taking his MD at Rush Medical College in 1907. The chemical aspects of pathological changes then occupied him fully until 1919, when he was appointed full-time professor of surgery at the Washington School of Medicine in St Louis. Visualisation of gallstones temporarily took his attention, but bronchogenic carcinoma was seldom far from his thoughts, and he recognised (too late to save himself) the causative association with cigarette smoking by 1950. He died on 4 March 1957.

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  1. School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    C. S. Breathnach

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    C. S. Breathnach

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Breathnach, C.S. Evarts Ambrose Graham (1883–1957), doyen of pulmonary surgeons. Ir J Med Sci 185, 265–266 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-015-1361-y

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