Owen H. Wangensteen
Owen Harding Wangensteen (born September 21, 1898 in Lake Park , Minnesota , † January 13, 1981 in Minneapolis , Minnesota) was an American surgeon at the University of Minnesota . He is considered one of the most influential US surgeons of the 20th century.
Life
Wangensteen grew up as a descendant of Norwegian immigrants on a farm in Minnesota. At his father's request, he studied medicine and graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1922 , spent a year with Henry S. Plummer and William James Mayo at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minnesota, and earned The Undescended in 1925 with work Testis: An Experimental and Clinical Study a Ph.D. , again at the University of Minnesota . In 1926 he became a lecturer there. In 1927/1928 he spent a year with Fritz de Quervain and Leon Asher at the University of Bern . In 1928 Wangensteen was Associate Professor , in 1930 Chief Physician of the Department of Surgery and in 1931 Full Professor at the University of Minnesota .
During his 37 years at the University of Minnesota , Wangensteen made important contributions to cancer surgery, the understanding of appendicitis and other gastrointestinal diseases . He established a worldwide used method for aspirating the stomach contents ( gastric tube ) in patients with mechanical intestinal obstruction and a method for conservative tube treatment of the bleeding duodenal ulcer . The world's first open-heart surgery was performed in Wangensteen's clinic in 1952. In addition to Christiaan N. Barnard , C. Walton Lillehei and Norman E. Shumway , more than 30 later professors of surgery were among his students. In 1939 Wangensteen founded the Society for University Surgeons as one of the earliest scientific clinical surgery organizations. Wangensteen was also a founding editor of the journal Surgery . In 1967 he retired and began to deal intensively with the history of medicine.
In 1972, Wangensteen helped found the Wangensteen Historial Library of Biology and Medicine , a library of historical medical and biological literature at the University of Minnesota . In 1979, a 16-storey extension under the name Phillips- Wangensteen building was opened at the university . In 2006 the Owen H. Wangensteen Surgical Society was founded as an alumni network for surgeons at the university.
His second wife, Sarah Davidson Wangensteen, was a professor of medical history . Owen H. Wangensteen had three children with his first wife, Helen, who died early.
Awards
- 1959 President of the American College of Surgeons
- 1961 Passano Award
- 1966 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1968 Distinguished Service Award from the American Medical Association
- 1969 President of the American Surgical Association
- Honorary Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England , Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland , the Greek Society of Surgery, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences , the French National Academy of Medicine, the Societé Internationale de Chirurgie and the International Academy of the History of Medicine
- Honorary doctorates from the University at Buffalo , University of Chicago , St. Olaf College , Temple University , University of Paris ( Sorbonne ), Hamline University , Marquette University and University of Athens
Fonts
- Intestinal obstruction. 1937
- Cancer of the Esophagus. 1951
- With Sarah Wangensteen: The Rise of Surgery, from Empiric Craft to Scientific Discipline. 1979
literature
- Edith Evans Asbury: Dr. Owen Wangensteen, Pioneer in Surgery, Dies of Heart Attack. In: The New York Times , January 15, 1981 ( online )
- M. Preston: Owen H. Wangensteen, MD, PhD, dead at 82. In: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association. Volume 245, Number 8, February 1981, p. 816, ISSN 0098-7484 . PMID 7007678 . doi: 10.1001 / jama.1981.03310330008002
- Maurice B. Visscher: Owen Harding Wangensteen 1898–1981. In: Biographical Memoir. National Academy of Sciences , Washington DC 1991 (PDF, 620 kB)
- S. Najibi, ER Frykberg: Owen H. Wangensteen, MD, PhD. A surgical legend and the father of modern management of intestinal obstruction (1898-1981). In: Digestive Surgery . Volume 17, Number 6, 2000, pp. 653-657, ISSN 0253-4886 . PMID 11155019 .
- RF Edlich: In memoriam: a tribute to dr. Owen H. Wangensteen, the greatest teacher of surgery during the 20th century (1898-1981). In: Journal of Surgical Research . Volume 138, Number 2, April 2007, pp. 241-253, ISSN 0022-4804 . doi: 10.1016 / j.jss.2006.09.004 . PMID 17275843 .
Web links
- Owen H. Wangensteen, MD, Ph.D. Biography at the University of Minnesota (umn.edu); Retrieved June 29, 2012
- Owen H. Wangensteen, 1898-1981 at the Wangensteen Historical Library of the University of Minnesota (umn.edu); Retrieved June 29, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Recipients of the Passano Laureate and Physician Scientist Awards. In: passanofoundation.org. Accessed May 5, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wangensteen, Owen H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wangensteen, Owen; Wangensteen, Owen Harding |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lake Park , Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1981 |
| Place of death | Minneapolis , Minnesota |