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History of Surgery Poster Competition 2020

First Place

Susan Dimock, MD, Pioneer Female Surgeon, 1870s
Jane A. Petro, MD, FACS
Susan Wilson
Megan Catalano

Second Place

The Rise and Fall of Gender Identity Clinics in the 1960-1970s
Melanie Fritz, BA


Other Posters Presented

The Story behind the Surgeon: Why 19th Century Surgeons Pursued Surgery as a Career
Casey R. Fiechter, BS
Miranda N. Schmidt, MD
Susan Galandiuk, MD, FACS
Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD, FACS


Extracting Barbed or Pronged Foreign Objects with the Tube Technique, Adapted from a 14th Century Method used to Remove Barbed Arrows
Gehrig Ornelas, BS
Cristobal Barrios, Jr., MD, FACS


Dr. Henry Norman Bethune–The Father of Social Surgery
Lai Xue, MD
Dong-Kha Tran, MD
Davel Milian, MD
Tanya Zakrison, MD, MPH, FACS


Pediatric Airway Reconstruction in the 20th Century-the Development of a New Subspecialty
Andrew J. Redmann, MD
David Lee, MD
Michael Rutter, MD
Robin Cotton, MD, FACS, FRACS


"We Had the Guts": Dr. Gerald Shaftan Pushes the Envelope in Trauma Care
Beatrix H. Choi, MD
Gainosuke Sugiyama, MD, FACS
Aleksandra Polonetskaya, MD
Onaona Gurney, MD
Michael Joseph Klein, MD


Joseph Colt Bloodgood: Innovative Surgeon and Public Health Pioneer
Eliza M. Slama, MD, MPH
Juan A. Sanchez, MD, FACS


Georg Kelling: The Forgotten Father of Laparoscopy
Jackson Bagby, BS
William L. Jackson, BS
Robert A. Petrino, MD, FACS


The Surgeon and Self-Experimentation
John E. Gatti, MD, FACS


From Slash to Seldinger: A History of Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Margaret Mariella, MD
Matthew Giangola, MD
Vihas Patel, MD
Maria Sfakianos, MD


The Road to Transplant: The Historic Events Leading to the First Human Heart Transplantation
Nazmul Hosain, MBBS, MS


At the Intersection of Medicine and Art History: How Visual Media Transformed Surgical Sducation
Paolo Q. Rigo, BA
Kevin Chien, BSE


Nicholas Senn, MD, PhD, LLD: Chicago Surgeon and Pioneer American Surgeon-Scientist
Patricia Martinez Quinones, MD, PhD
Robert Nesbit, Jr., MD, FACS


History of Bullfighting Surgery: Yesterday and Today
Ricardo Benvenuto, MD


Changing Power Within Surgery. The History Of Free-Standing Ambulatory Care Facilities
Richard Schutzer, MD, FACS


Ambroise Pare: From Haircuts to Hemostats
Shawn Izadi, MD
Layla Nejad, BS
Samuel Snyder, MD, FACS
Jeffrey James


Pinning Down Appendicitis: How We Came to Understand Appendicitis and How Its Treatment Has Evolved
Stephen Niemiec, MD
Kenneth W. Liechty, MD, FACS


Ivar Sandstrom: Tragedy and Triumph of Parathyroid Gland Discovery
Timothy Farrell, BS
Maura E. Morgan, BS


When Medicine and Science Merged: Joseph Lister's Historical Contribution to Surgery
Youssef H. Shaban, DO
Adel Elkbuli, MD, MPH
Dessislava V. Boneva, MD, FACS
Shaikh A. Hai, MD, FACS
Mark G. McKenney, MD, FACS