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Frank Wilson Jobe (July 16, 1925 – March 6, 2014) was an American orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. Jobe pioneered both elbow ligament replacement and major reconstructive shoulder surgery for baseball players. In 1974, Jobe performed the first "Tommy John surgery" on then-Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher ...
Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, TD, FRCS (28 June 1857 – 14 January 1933) was a Welsh orthopaedic surgeon who helped to establish the modern specialty of orthopaedic surgery in Britain. [1] He was an early proponent of the use of radiography in orthopaedics, and in 1902 described the eponymous Jones fracture.
James Andrews (born May 2, 1942) is a retired American orthopedic surgeon. He is a surgeon for knee, elbow, and shoulder injuries [1] [2] [3] and is a specialist in repairing damaged ligaments. Practicing in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Andrews has become one of the best-known and most popular orthopedic surgeons and has performed on many high-profile ...
Beginning in the 1840s, European surgery began to change dramatically in character with the discovery of effective and practical anesthetic chemicals such as ether, first used by the American surgeon Crawford Long (1815–1878), and chloroform, discovered by James Young Simpson (1811–1870) and later pioneered in England by John Snow (1813 ...
John Robert Cobb (1903–1967), was an American orthopedic surgeon [1] who invented the eponymous Cobb angle, the preferred method of measuring the degree of scoliosis and post-traumatic kyphosis. Education
Surgeon generals. They’re just like us. Dr. Jerome Adams, Purdue University’s Health Equity Initiatives director who formerly held the title of the nation’s 20th U.S. surgeon general, proved ...
Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as the highest ranking doctor in the U.S. from September 2017 to January 2021, shared his despair over America’s “broken” health care system on X (formerly known ...
Graham was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, on June 26, 1962, He received his undergraduate degree from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1984, his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati Medical School in 1988, and completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Michigan in 1993.