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Archives and History

History of Surgery Poster Competition 2026

First Place

From Battlefield Chaos to Organized Care: How Chimborazo Hospital Standardized Surgical Systems and Reduced Mortality During the Civil War    

Sonya Feeser, BS; Omar Rokayak, DO, FACS; and Rahul J. Anand, MD, FACS

Second Place

Sabuncuoglu: A 15th-century Turkish Surgeon Beyond Early Modern Western Civilization    

Baki Türkoglu, MD, PhD(c)

Other Posters Presented

Surgery at Auschwitz    

Ezra Saul Brooks, MD; Yangzi Liu, MD; Russell Simons, MD, MPH; and Claire Rosen, MD, MSME

From Impact To ICU: ATLS Decision-making After the Nebraska Plane Crash

Tanya Kaur Khalssa, Medical Student

Autopsy And Autonomy: The Johns Hopkins Temporal Bone Collection and the Evolution of Consent in American Surgery

Dianela Perdomo, MD; and Bryan K. Ward, MD

From Operating Room to Educational Landmark: The Evolution of the Surgical Amphitheater at The University of Cincinnati

Anna Marie Warshak, BS; Gabriel L. Jelkin, BS; Steve Wiesner, BA; Timothy A. Pritts, MD, FACS; and Charles J. Prestigiacomo, MD, FACS

Auditory Anesthesia: The 1914 Introduction of the Phonograph to the Operating Room

Seraphim Nguyen Le, MS1; and Tyler Lackland, MS4

The Evolution of the Resuscitative Thoracotomy: Surgical Innovation and the Development of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Brandon C. Karcher, MD; Alexander Rowan, MD; Lateef Omidiji Jr, BS; and Deborah A. Kuhls, MD, FACS

The Origin of Medical Education and Surgery: Al-Qarawiyyin University, The First Official Degree-awarding Institution, Founded by Fatima Al-fihri

Hala Al Asadi, MD

From Battlefield Records to Vascular Doctrine: The Vietnam Vascular Registry, Dr. Norman M. Rich, And the Birth of Modern Military Vascular Trauma Care

Austin Parker, MS; Mason Remondelli, MD; Kennedy D Nye, MD; Eric Andrew Elster, MD, FACS, FRCSEng (Hon); Matthew Bradley, MD, FACS

Patricia Numann and the Transformation of the College: Women and Institutional Authority in the American College of Surgeons Since 1976

Colby Mallett, MSPH

Transfer of Antiseptic-era Surgical Systems Thinking to Social Reform: Isabel Chapin Hayes Barrows

Eryn Claire Robinson, BS; and Anna Dunson, MLIS

When Penicillin Failed the Surgical Ward: Mary Barber and the Birth of Stewardship

Hannah Nicole Watkins, BS; Lilah Brynn Widner, BS; and Anna Dunson, MLIS

Alice Rosenstein (1898-1991): Neurosurgery, Exile, and the Reshaping of Surgical Careers Under Nazism

Bárbara Alessandra Solano Silva, MD Candidate, Laisa De Paula da Costa Lobato, MD Candidate; José Antônio Solano Silva, MD Candidate; Bruna Victória Alcantara de Campos, MD Candidate; and Edson Yuzur Yasojima, MD, PhD

From Papyrus to Pedicles: The Art of Restoring Function, Dignity, and Humanity

Sarah Ali Abdellah, BS and Youmna Ashraf Sherif, MD

Improvisation Under Isolation: Surgery in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

Daryn Short, BS and Kaitlin Nguyen, MD

Biologic Debridement Before Antibiotics: The Surgical Institutionalization of Maggot Therapy, 1931-1938

Luis Fernando Duarte, MD and Julio C. Zavala, MD