American Association for Thoracic Surgery archives, 1899-2002.

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American Association for Thoracic Surgery archives, 1899-2002.

Institutional material, historical manuscripts and data, biographies, member information, curriculum vitae, bibliographies, correspondence, minutes, transcripts, programs, reports, reprints, and photographic media (11 linear feet, 1899-2002) document the history and administrative practices of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the professional accomplishments of its members. Historical information about the founding and growth of the association can be found in Series I: Historical and Institutional Material. The Constitution and By-Laws of the Association are housed first in this series. For information on the administration of the AATS, the researcher should consult materials in Series III-V. The vast majority of materials in these three series are minutes, transcripts, and/or agendas from various council, committee, and board meetings. Series III: Annual Meetings gathers minutes that document general association business and activities, the decisions of the Executive Officers of the Council of the AATS, and the reports of various committees. Additional council and committee meeting minutes are located in Series IV: Executive Office, along with reports, financial ledgers, and correspondence from the association's first fifty years. The minutes in Series V: Graham Education and Research Foundation document the meetings of its Board of Directors and the Evarts A. Graham Memorial Traveling Fellowship Committee. This last series also includes copies of the reports made by the traveling fellows. Member information, statistics, and professional activities are documented in several places throughout the collection. The five subseries in Series II: Membership contain member lists, biographical sketches and data, statistical reports from the Membership Committee, curriculum vitae and bibliographies, and photographs. The volume Founding of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (1917-1967) also contains biographies of fourteen founding members, including Willy Meyer and Evarts A. Graham. Series III: Annual Meetings has a subseries of programs that include abstracts of papers presented by AATS members and their professional colleagues. Reprints of articles written by members such as Armistead C. Crump are gathered in Series VI: Member Writings.

11 linear ft. (9 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6825461

National Library of Medicine

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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...

Crump, Armistead C.

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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...

Meyer, Willy, 1858-1932

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Green, Nathan W.

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Lilienthal, Howard, 1861-1946

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