American Association for Thoracic Surgery Archives 1899-2002

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American Association for Thoracic Surgery Archives 1899-2002

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The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) was founded by Dr. Willy Meyer in 1917 as a venue devoted to exchanging ideas regarding the growing field of thoracic surgery. Other founding members of the AATS include Alexis Carrel, Armistead C. Crump, Nathan W. Green, Howard Lilienthal, Rudolph Matas, and Samuel Robinson. Institutional material, historical manuscripts and data, biographies, member information, curriculum vitae, bibliographies, correspondence, minutes, transcripts, programs, reports, reprints, and photographic media document the association's history and administrative practices and the professional accomplishments of its members.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Matas, Rudolph, 1860-1957

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Rudolph Matas was a prominent New Orleans, La., surgeon. During his career, he served as director of the NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL and Professor of Surgery at Tulane University, a post he held until he became Emeritus Professor in 1927. He also was a surgeon and consultant at Charity Hospital, Touro Infirmary, and the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital of New Orleans. Matas continued his surgical practice and civic and academic pursuits until the age of 92, five years before his d...

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Crump, Armistead C., 1876-

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Green, Nathan W., 1871-1955

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American association for thoracic surgery

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In 1913 Dr. Willy Meyer, director of surgery at the German Hospital in New York, presented a paper on "Extrathoracic and Intrathoracic Esophagoplasty . . ." at the American Medical Association Annual Meeting. Disappointed by the lack of interest in his topic, Meyer decided to create a venue devoted to exchanging ideas regarding the growing field of thoracic surgery. He began by inviting nineteen local colleagues to his home on February 20, 1917, and founding the New York Society for...

Graham, Evarts A. (Evarts Ambrose), 1883-1957

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Surgeon. Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery, Washington University, School of Medicine, 1919-1951. From the description of Evarts A. Graham papers, 1904-1957. 1904-1957. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 10603032 Dr. Graham was Bixby Professor of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Barnes and St. Louis Children's Hospitals from 1919 to 1951. From the description of Evarts Graham papers, 1906-1965. (National Library of Medicine...

Meyer, Willy, 1858-1932

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American Board of Thoracic Surgery

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