Allen Oldfather Whipple
Allen Oldfather Whipple (born September 2, 1881 in Urmia (Persia), † April 6, 1963 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American surgeon . Radical duodenopancreatectomy , an operation to treat pancreatic cancer , is also called the “ Whipple operation ” or “Kausch-Whipple operation” after him . This involves removing the head of the pancreas, the gallbladder, parts of the biliary tract, the duodenum and sometimes parts of the stomach.
Life
AO Whipple was born in 1881 in what is now Iran as the son of the missionaries William Levi Whipple and Mary Louise Allen. He spent 14 years of his youth in Persia. After school and college, Whipple enrolled at Princeton University , where he studied until 1904. From there he went to Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he earned a doctorate in medicine in 1908. He spent the first few years of his clinical training at Roosevelt Hospital and Sloan Hospital in New York. In 1910 he began working as a surgeon.
In 1921 Whipple was appointed professor of surgery at Columbia University in New York and became chief surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital. After his retirement in 1946, Whipple returned to the Middle East, where he devoted himself to the history of medicine until 1963.
Individual evidence
- ^ AO Whipple: The story of wound healing and wound repair. Springfield (Illinois) 1963.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Whipple, Allen Oldfather |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Urmia (Persia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1963 |
| Place of death | Princeton |