Elliott Cutler
Elliott Carr Cutler (born July 30, 1888 in Bangor , Maine , † August 16, 1947 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) was an American surgeon .
Life
Cutler graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1909 and then went to Harvard Medical School with an MD degree in 1913 summa cum laude . He first specialized in pathology at the Boston Medical Hospital and during a European stay in London and Heidelberg (with Ludolf von Krehl ). He then went to the specialist training (internship) at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston , studied immunology at Rockefeller Institute , and was in the First World War in France as a captain in the Army Medical Corps . He then went to Harvard Medical School, where from 1921 to 1923 he headed the research laboratory for surgery and in 1923 undertook the first successful heart valve operation on a twelve-year-old patient with rheumatic mitral stenosis . Because of the high mortality he gave up this operation in 1928.
In 1924 he became professor of surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and chief surgeon at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland . In 1932 he succeeded Harvey Cushing Moseley as professor of surgery at Harvard University and chief surgeon of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. In the same year he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He held both positions at Harvard and Boston until his death from prostate cancer in 1947.
During World War II he was again with the Army Medical Corps as chief consultant for surgery in Europe, as a colleague of William Shainline Middleton (1890-1975), who was chief consultant in medicine. There he played an essential role in the organization of medical care in the US Army. In 1945 he was promoted to brigadier general. He received the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit .
He was President of the American Surgical Association in 1947 and President of the Society for Clinical Surgery from 1941 to 1946. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . He was the founder of the American Board of Surgery.
He received the OBE and the Croix de guerre , was Knight of the Legion of Honor and Companion of the Order of the Bath . In 1947 he received the Henry Jacob Bigelow Medal from the Boston Surgical Society. A surgery professorship at Harvard University is named after him.
He had been married to Caroline Pollard Parker since 1919 and had five children.
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| SURNAME | Cutler, Elliott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cutler, Elliott Carr (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bangor , Maine |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1947 |
| Place of death | Brookline , Massachusetts |