Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Thomas F. Frist Jr. was born on August 12, 1938, to Thomas F. Frist Sr., a prominent internal medicine specialist in Nashville, [1] and Dorothy Cate. Frist has four siblings: physician and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; [6] Dr. Robert A. Frist; Dorothy F. Boensch; and Mary F. Barfield. Frist grew up in Belle Meade, a western ...
Died. 5 March 1871. (1871-03-05) (aged 65) Dr. John Thomas (12 April 1805 – 5 March 1871) was a British religious leader and founder of the Christadelphians [Brethren in Christ Jesus]. He was a dedicated Bible Expositor, and author of Elpis Israel the First major writing to bring to light the subject of God Manifestation and the Hope of ...
Blue baby syndrome, Atrial septostomy. Dr. Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who in the 1940s developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease). [3] He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal ...
Hancock Aortic Tissue Valve. Dr. Thomas J. " Tom " Fogarty (born February 25, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American surgeon and medical device inventor. He is best known for the invention of the embolectomy catheter (or balloon catheter), which revolutionized the treatment of blood clots ( embolus ). In 2008, Fogarty was elected a member of ...
University of Pittsburgh. Thomas Earl Starzl (March 11, 1926 – March 4, 2017) was an American physician, researcher, and expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation." [1] A documentary, entitled "Burden of Genius," [2] covering the medical ...
The John E Mack Institute. John Edward Mack (October 4, 1929 – September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T.E. Lawrence.
Thomas Francis Jr. Thomas Francis Jr. (July 15, 1900 – October 1, 1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who guided the discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in the United States, and in 1940 showed that there ...
Thomas R. Insel. Thomas Roland Insel (born October 19, 1951) is an American neuroscientist, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and author who led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until November 2015. [2] Prior to becoming Director of NIMH, he was the founding Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory ...