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American College of Surgeons: Member Services

Honorary Fellows of the American College of Surgeons

Since the American College of Surgeons was first established, it has awarded Honorary Fellowships to (a) individuals who possess an international reputation in the field of surgery or medicine, or (b) have rendered distinguished humanitarian services, especially in the field of medical science. Honorary Fellows shall not be required to pay fees or dues but shall enjoy all of the privileges of the Fellows except that they shall not have the right to vote or to hold office. Optimally, Honorary Fellowship should be conferred in person, however, under exceptional or extraordinary circumstances, other methods for presentation may be considered and approved by the Honors Committee. It is customary to grant such honors to four or five candidates annually, but there is no requirement to do so.

1913 Sir Rickman J. Godlee England
1913 William Stewart Halstead USA
1913 William W. Keen USA Neurology
1913 John Collins USA
1913 Robert F. Weir USA
1914 Dudley P. Allen USA
1914 Thomas Addis Emmet USA
1914 William C. Gorgas USA
1914 Lewis Stephen Pilcher USA
1914 Sir Thomas George Roddick Canada
1914 Francis J. Shepard Canada
1914 Edward Souchon USA
1914 J. William White USA
1915 David Cheever William USA
1915 Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Canada
1915 Stephen Smith USA
1915 Louis McLane Tiffany USA
1916 Ernest Sydney Lewis USA
1917 Rupert Blue USA
1917 William C. Braisted USA
1917 Charles U. Dergle France
1917 Sir T.H. John Goodwin England
1917 Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan England Abdominal
1918 Raffaele Bastianelli Italy
1918 Pierre Duval France
1918 George E. Gask England
1918 Merritte W. Ireland USA
1918 Sir Thomas Myles Ireland
1918 George Grey Turner France
1919 Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby England
1919 Irving Heward Cameron Canada
1919 Sir Robert Jones England
1919 Theodore Tuffier France
1920 Albert Carless Scotland
1920 John T. Fotheringham Canada
1920 William Gardner Canada
1920 Guy Carlton Jones England
1920 John Stewart Canada
1920 Sir William Taylor Ireland
1921 Miguel H. Alcivar Ecuador
1921 Joao Alvas de Lima Brazil
1921 Jose de Mendonca Brazil
1921 Fritz de Quervain Switzerland
1921 Guillermo Gastaneta Peru
1921 Hans Christian Jacobaeus Sweden
1921 Jan Schoemaker Netherlands
1921 Sir Harold J. Stiles Scotland Trauma
1921 Edward R. Stitt USA
1921 Sir Robert Woods Ireland
1922 Jose Arce Argentina
1922 Jose E. Casuso Cuba
1922 Henry H. Chown Canada
1922 Andrew Fullerton Northern Ireland
1922 Einar S. H. Key Sweden
1922 Guillermo E. Munnich Chile
1922 Enrique Pouey Uruguay
1922 Jose A. Presno y Bastiony Havana
1922 Luis Razetti Venezuela
1922 Ulises Valdes Mexico
1923 Gregorio Amuntagui S. Chile
1923 Augusto S. Boyd Panama
1923 Rafael Calvco C. Colombia
1923 Hugh S. Cumming USA
1923 Olympio Arthur Ribiero da Fonseca Brazil
1923 Marcellino Herrera Vegas Argentina
1923 Lord Alfred Webb-Johnson England
1923 Sir William I. De Courcy Wheeler England
1924 Thierry de Martel France
1924 Sir Henry Lindo Ferguson New Zealand
1924 Sir Carrick Robertson New Zealand
1924 Robert Hamilton Russell Australia
1924 Ralph Worrall Australia
1925 W. Blair Bell England
1925 Henry Carmalt USA
1925 Viscount Dawson of Penn England
1925 Frederic S. Dennis USA
1925 Philip Franklin England
1925 Sir William Arbuthnot Lane England
1925 Vittorio Putti Italy
1926 Roberto Alessandri Italy
1926 Sir Louis Edward Barnett New Zealand
1926 Sir John Fraser Scotland
1926 W. Sampson Handley England
1926 Sir Ewen John Maclean Wales
1926 Lucas Sierra Chile
1926 Sir David P.D. Wilkie Scotland
1926 Archibald Young Scotland
1927 Sir John Bland-Sutton England
1927 Gordon Craig Australia
1927 Lund Essen-Moller Sweden
1927 Svend-Aage Gammeltoft Denmark
1928 Sir Charles Alfred Ballance England
1928 Sir John Lynn-Thomas Wales
1928 Sir Squire Sprigge England
1928 George Adlington Syme Australia
1929 Florestan Aguilar Spain
1929 E. James Heyman Sweden
1929 William A. Osborne Australia
1930 Emile de Grosz Hungary
1930 Otfrid Foerster Germany
1930 William Ernest Miles England
1930 Henry Wade Scotland
1931 Arthur H. Burgess England
1931 Sir Charles Gordon-Watson England
1931 Hans von Haberer Germany
1932 Sir G. Lenthal Cheatle England
1932 Jose Goyanes Capdevila Spain
1933 Robert M. Allan Australia
1933 Robert U. Patterson USA
1933 Perceval S. Rossiter USA
1933 Sir Beckwith Whitehouse England
1934 Sir Harold Delf Gillies England
1934 Josef Halban Austria
1934 Sir Harry Platt England Orthopaedic Surgery
1934 Bethel Solomons Ireland
1936 Sir W. Fletcher Shaw England
1936 Sir James Walton England
1937 John P. Lockhart-Mummery England
1938 Sir Heneage Ogilvie England
1938 Charles Ransom Reynolds USA
1939 James Carre Magee USA
1939 Thomas Parran USA
1939 Eugene Polya Hungary Abdominal
1941 Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor England
1941 Ross T. McIntire USA
1941 Pablo Luis Mirizzi Argentina
1941 Rafael Silva Mexico
1943 Nicolaj N. Burdenko USSR
1943 Sergei S. Yudin USSR
1946 Gustavo Baz Prada Mexico
1946 Herman de las Casas Venezuela
1946 Leo A.M. Dejardin Belgium
1946 Norman T. Kirk USA
1946 Paul Lorthioir Belgium
1946 Leopold Alexander Meyer Belgium
1947 Robert K.S. Lim China
1947 Benedicto Montenegro Brazil
1948 Rene Ghislain Appelmans Belgium
1948 Louis Bazy France
1948 Raymond W. Bliss USA
1948 Clarence Crafoord Sweden
1948 Robert Danis Belgium
1948 Leonard A. Scheele USA
1948 Clifford A. Swanson USA
1949 Lord Russell Claude Brock England Thoracic
1949 Jose Castro Villagrana Mexico Orthopaedic Surgery
1949 Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder England
1949 Malcolm G. Grow USA
1949 John Hellstrom Sweden
1949 Sir James Learmonth Scotland
1949 Rene Leriche France
1949 Jean Verhoogen Belgium
1950 Reynaldo dos Santos Portugal
1950 Sir Geoffrey Jefferson England Neurosurgery
1950 Robert Wood Johnson Canada
1950 Malcolm T. MacEachern USA
1950 Sir Archibald MacIndoe England Plastic Surgery/Hand Surgery
1951 A. Mario Dogliotti Italy
1951 Rudolph Matas USA
1951 Sir Reginald Watson-Jones England
1952 Paul R. Hawley USA
1952 Terence Millin England
1952 Philip Sandblom Switzerland
1952 Sir Cecil Wakeley England
1953 Frank Charles Mann USA
1953 Sir James Patterson Ross England
1954 Philip Rowland Allison England
1954 Jorge E. Cavelier Colombia
1954 Digby Chamberlain England
1954 Francois L.P. deGaudart d'Allaines France
1954 Merle R. d'Aubigne France
1954 Rene Fontaine France
1954 Alan Gregg USA
1954 Erik Husfeldt Denmark
1954 Sir Charles F.W. Illingworth Scotland Abdominal
1954 Sir Arthur Keith England
1954 Pierre Mallet-Guy France
1954 Walter Mercer Scotland
1954 Sir Henry Soutar England
1954 Sir Kenneth W. Starr Australia
1954 Sir Clement Price Thomas England
1954 Alfred Gustave Weiss France
1955 Sir Stanford Cade England Radiology
1955 Erling Dahl Iversen Denmark General Surgery
1955 Sir John A. Stallworthy England Gynecology
1955 Arthur Purdy Stout USA Pathology
1955 Pietro Valdoni Italy
1956 Fritz Albert Belgium
1956 Sir Hedley B. Atkins England
1956 Vanevar Bush USA
1956 Hans-Ludwig Hans Kottmeier Sweden Obstetrics, Radiology
1956 Carl B. Semb Norway Thoracic
1957 Ian Aird England
1957 Sir John Bruce Scotland
1957 Robert Cutler USA
1957 Dwight David Eisenhower USA
1957 John Franklin Enders USA Virology/Immunology
1957 Dickinson Woodruff Richards USA Pulmonary/Cardiac
1958 W. Arthur Mackey Scotland Cardiac
1958 Hiroshi Miyake Japan
1959 Jerome W. Conn USA
1959 Richard Lewisohn USA
1959 Sir Clifford N. Morgan England
1959 Sir Douglas Robb Australia
1959 Rudolf Zenker Germany
1960 Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia Uruguay
1960 Lt. Gen. Bijeta Chaudhuri India
1960 Johannes F. Nuboer Netherlands
1960 Joseph Trueta England
1961 Jack E.F. Adams-Ray Sweden
1961 Fritz Linder Germany
1961 Jean-Louis Lortat-Jacob France
1961 Sir Arthur Porritt England Cancer
1962 Ernst Navratil Austria
1962 Vaino Seiro Finland
1962 Robert Milnes Walker England
1963 Charles B. Huggins USA
1963 Basile G. Kourias Greece
1963 Sir Herbert John Seddon England
1963 Julian Ormond Smith Australia
1963 Stanley L. Wilson New Zealand
1964 Ita Boerema Netherlands Thoracic
1964 Lorenz Bohler Austria Trauma
1964 Harold C. Edwards England Gastroenterology
1965 Fernand P. Orban Belgium Vascular Surgery
1965 Oscar Schuberth Sweden
1965 Aquilino Villanueva Mexico Urology
1966 Sir John Loewenthal Australia
1966 Tord Skroog Sweden
1966 Norman Cecil Tanner England
1967 Juan Martin Allende Argentina
1967 Howard G. Hanley England
1967 Thomas G. Wilson Ireland Otolaryngology
1968 Giambattista Bietti Italy
1968 H. Burkle de la Camp Germany
1968 Norman M. Dott Scotland
1968 Hon. Lister Hill USA
1968 Charles Wells England Urology/Gastroenterology
1969 Ignacio Chavez Mexico
1969 Maurice R. Ewing Australia
1969 Frank Wild Holdsworth England
1969 Jan Hendrik Louw Republic of South Africa Pediatric Surgery
1970 Tetsuo Maki Japan
1970 Maurice Mercadier France Pancreatic/Intestinal
1970 Sir John Peel England
1970 Boris Petrov USSR
1970 Ake Senning Switzerland Thoracic/Cardiac
1971 Juan M. Allamand Chile
1971 Emilio Etala Argentina
1971 Witold Rudowski Poland Cancer/Hematology
1971 Alberto Sabogal Sologuren Peru
1971 Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors England Thoracic
1972 John Charnley England Orthopaedic Surgery
1972 Donald MacLeod Douglas Scotland
1972 Charles Dubost France
1972 Carl-Axel Hamberger Sweden
1972 Fernando Paulino Brazil
1973 Lars-Erik Gelin Sweden Transplants
1973 Antonio Gonzalez-Revilla Panama Neurology
1973 Sir Andrew Watt Kay Scotland
1973 Gerd E.R. Meyer-Schwickerath Germany
1974 D.J. Du Plessis Republic of South Africa Gastrology
1974 John Cedric Goligher England
1974 M.B.V. Petrovksy USSR Vascular/Cardiac/Pulmonary
1974 Sir Benjamin Rank Australia Plastic Surgery
1974 Shigeru Sakakibara Japan Cardiovascular
1974 Alexander Burns Wallace Scotland
1975 Martin Allgower Switzerland
1975 Guan Bee Ong Hong Kong
1975 Lord Rodney Smith England
1975 Paul Tessier France Plastic Surgery
1975 Sir Michael Woodruff Scotland
1976 Patrick Alexis M.F. Fitzgerald Ireland General Surgery
1976 Sven Axel Friberg Sweden Orthopaedic Surgery
1976 Fritz Karl Holle Germany General Surgery
1976 Sir Edward Stewart Reginald Hughes Australia General Surgery
1976 John Bernard Kinmonth England Vascular Surgery
1977 Sir Brian G. Barratt-Boyes New Zealand Cardiothoracic Surgery
1977 Harry Hubert Grayson Eastcott England General  Surgery
1977 Gustav Bertil Giertz Sweden Urological Surgery
1977 Andres A. Santas Argentina General Surgery
1978 Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest Scotland General Surgery
1978 Seiji Kimoto Japan Cardiothoracic Surgery
1978 Gerard William Taylor England Cardiothoracic Surgery
1979 Noshir Hormasji Antia India Plastic Surgery
1979 Lars Leksell Sweden Neurological Surgery
1979 Hamilton D'Arcy Sutherland Australia Cardiothoracic Surgery
1979 Horst Ludwig Wullstein Germany Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
1980 Lucien Leger France General Surgery
1980 Franc Novak Yugoslavia (current Slovenia) Obstetrics & Gynecology
1980 Ying-Kai Wu Peoples Republic of China Cardiothoracic Surgery
1980 Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini Brazil Cardiothoracic Surgery
1981 Eoin O'Malley Ireland Cardiothoracic Surgery
1981 Sir Alan Parks England General Surgery
1981 Keiji Sano Japan Neurological Surgery
1981 Graham Douglas Tracy Australia General Surgery
1982 Leslie Philip Le Quesne England General Surgery
1982 Harold Homewood Nixon England Pediatric Surgery
1982 Jose Felix Patiño Colombia General Surgery
1982 Lars O. Thoren Sweden General Surgery
1983 Johannes Albertus Myburgh Republic of South Africa General Surgery
1983 Jan Nielubowicz Poland Cardiothoracic Surgery
1983 David Innes Williams England Pediatric Surgery
1984 Vladimir I. Bourakovsky USSR Cardiothoracic Surgery
1984 Ivan David Alexander Johnston England General Surgery
1984 Morio Kasai Japan General Surgery
1984 Richard Burkewood Welbourn England General Surgery
1985 Roy Yorke Calne England General Surgery (Transplant)
1985 Georg Heberer Germany General Surgery
1985 Hans Jakob Marberger Austria Urological Surgery
1985 Sir Geoffrey Slaney England General Surgery
1986 Henri Bismuth France General Surgery
1986 Kiyoshi Inokuchi Japan General Surgery
1986 Ian McGregor Scotland Plastic Surgery
1986 Sir Peter J. Morris England General Surgery
1987 Robert B. Duthie England Orthopaedic Surgery
1987 Nils G. Kock Sweden General Surgery
1987 Thomas S. Reeve Australia General Surgery
1987 John Terblanche Republic of South Africa General Surgery
1988 Alain F. Carpentier France Cardiothoracic Surgery
1988 Toshio Sato Japan General Surgery
1988 Egbert Schmiedt Germany Urological Surgery
1988 Sir Ian P. Todd England Colon and Rectal Surgery
1989 Erik Amdrup Denmark General Surgery
1989 Harold Ellis England General Surgery
1989 Bernard McCarthy O'Brien Australia Plastic Surgery
1989 Theodor M. Scheinin Finland General Surgery
1990 Rene G. Favaloro Argentina Cardiothoracic Surgery
1990 Sir Donald F.N. Harrison England Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
1990 Rudolf Pichlmayr Germany General Surgery
1990 Sir Robert Shields England General Surgery
1991 Hiroshi Akiyama Japan General Surgery
1991 Rudolf Hohenfellner Germany Urological Surgery
1991 Louis-Francois Hollender France General Surgery
1991 Enrique Moreno Gonzalez Spain General Surgery
1992 Sven-Erik Bergentz Sweden General Surgery
1992 Sir Terence A.H. English England Cardiothoracic Surgery
1992 Ugo Fisch Switzerland Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
1992 Christian H. Herfarth Germany General Surgery
1993 Panayotis E. Balas Greece General Surgery
1993 Jin-Pok Kim Republic of Korea General Surgery
1993 Donald Nixon Ross England Cardiothoracic Surgery
1993 Michael Trede Germany General Surgery
1994 Hans Georg Borst Germany Cardiothoracic Surgery
1994 Geoffrey D. Chisholm Scotland Urological Surgery
1994 Lindsay Symon England Neurological Surgery
1994 John Wong Hong Kong General Surgery
1995 Sir Norman Leslie Browse England General Surgery
1995 Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio Mexico Plastic Surgery
1995 Takayoshi Tobe Japan General Surgery
1995 Bengt H. Zederfeldt Sweden General Surgery
1996 Sir David Craig Carter Scotland General Surgery
1996 Santiago Dexeus Spain Obstetrics & Gynecology
1996 Yasuo Idezuki Japan General Surgery
1996 Gui-Yi Tu Peoples Republic of China General Surgery & Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
1997 Olajide Olaolu Adedapo Ajayi Nigeria General Surgery
1997 Joerg Rüdiger Siewert Germany General Surgery
1997 Geoffrey Ian Taylor Australia Plastic Surgery
1997 Richard Turner-Warwick England Urological Surgery
1998 Abid Domingos Jatene Brazil Cardiothoracic Surgery
1998 Averil Olive Mansfield England General & Vascular Surgery
1998 Sir David Rodney Sweetnam England Orthopaedic Surgery
1998 Umberto Veronesi Italy General Surgery (Oncology)
1999 José L. Balibrea Spain General Surgery
1999 Leo A. Bockeria Russian Federation Cardiothoracic Surgery
1999 Barry O'Donnell Ireland Pediatric Surgery
1999 Ainslie Glenister Ross Sheil Australia General Surgery
2000 Horst Dieter Becker Germany General Surgery
2000 Sir Miles Horsfall Irving England General Surgery
2000 Barry Trevor Jackson England General Surgery / Colon and Rectal Surgery
2000 Arthur Kwok Cheung Li Hong Kong (Peoples Republic of China) General Surgery
2000 Mahmut Gazi Yasargil USA (Switzerland) Neurological Surgery
2001 Albrecht F.W. Encke Germany General Surgery
2001 Pekka Häyry Finland General Surgery (Transplant)
2001 Minoru Hirano Japan Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
2002 Alan C. Bird England Ophthalmic Surgery
2002 Juan Carlos Parodi Argentina Vascular Surgery
2002 Graham M. Teasdale Scotland Neurological Surgery
2002 Sir Magdi Yacoub England Cardiothoracic Surgery
2003 Attila Csendes Chile General Surgery
2003 Sidney Cywes Republic of South Africa Pediatric Surgery
2003 E. Catherine Hamlin Ethiopa Obstetrics & Gynecology
2003 Henrik Kehlet Denmark General Surgery
2003 Mark J. Killingback Australia Colon and Rectal Surgery
2004 Mohamed A. Ghoneim Egypt Urological Surgery
2004 Angelita Habr-Gama Brazil Colon and Rectal Surgery
2004 Shu You Peng Peoples Republic of China General Surgery
2005 Bruce Neil Procter Benjamin Australia Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
2005 Sir Alfred Cuschieri Scotland General Surgery
2005 Sergio Pecorelli Italy Obstetrics & Gynecology
2006 Sirpa Asko-Seljavaara Finland Plastic Surgery
2006 Jorge Cervantes Mexico General Surgery
2006 Claire Nihoul Fékété France Pediatric Surgery
2006 Armando Marquez Reveron Venezuela General Surgery
2006 Maurice E. Müller Switzerland Orthopaedic Surgery
2006 Niall O'Higgins Ireland General Surgery
2007 Juan M. Acosta Argentina General Surgery
2007 Hans-Gunther Beger Germany General Surgery
2007 Adam Dziki Poland Colon and Rectal Surgery
2007 Nicola Scopinaro Italy General & Vascular Surgery
2007 Heinz Richard Stammberger Austria Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
2008 Jacques Brotchi Belgium Neurological Surgery
2008 Joaquim Gama-Rodrigues Brazil General Surgery
2008 Gerald C. O’Sullivan Ireland General Surgery
2008 Bernard F. Ribeiro England General Surgery
2008 Russell W. Strong Australia General Surgery
2009 Adelola Adeloye Nigeria Neurological Surgery
2009 Vicente P. Gutierrez Argentina General Surgery
2009 Ingemar Ihse Sweden General Surgery
2009 Sir Bruce E. Keogh England Cardiothoracic Surgery
2009 Masaki Kitajama Japan General Surgery
2010 Dario Birolini Brazil Trauma Surgery and Critical Care
2010 Mehmet A. Haberal Turkey General Surgery
2010 Bernard Launois France General Surgery
2010 Ralph John Nicholls England Colorectal Surgery
2010 Tehemton E. Udwadia India General Surgery
2010 William I. Wei

Hong Kong

(Peoples Republic of

China)

Head and Neck Surgery

Revised August 10, 2010