Webster, Jerome Pierce

Jerome Pierce Webster, plastic surgeon, M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1914. Organized the Division of Plastic Surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1928. Co-Founder of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, 1937 and Chair, 1947-1949. President American Association of Plastic Surgery, 1941.

Jerome Pierce Webster was one of the leading American plastic surgeons of his time and the founder of the Division of Plastic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was a faculty member in the dept. of surgery of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1928 until his death in 1974.

He was co-author, with Martha Teach Gnudi, of The life and times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, surgeon of Bologna, 1545-1599 (1950), the only full-length biography of this Renaissance plastic surgeon in any language. To aid his research, Webster created what is perhaps the most comprehensive library in existence on the history of plastic surgery. This reprint collection formed part of the Webster Library of Plastic Surgery, which was located in the Dept. of Surgery until it was transferred to the Health Sciences Library in the late 1970s.