Samuel A. Wells

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Samuel Alonzo Wells Jr. (born March 16, 1936 in Cuthbert , Georgia ) is an American surgeon specializing in oncology and endocrinology .

Wells received his MD in medicine from Emory University in Atlanta in 1961 . This was followed by specialist training (internship, residency in internal medicine) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore . In 1963/64 he was in the tumor biology department at the Karolinska Institute in Solna . From 1964 to 1966 he was a surgeon at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda (and 1970 to 1972 as a senior investigator in the surgery department). From 1966 to 1970 he completed a residency (part of the specialist training) in surgery at Duke University Medical School, where he became an assistant professor in 1972 and later professor. In the 1970s he was on the Treatment Committee of the Breast Cancer Task Force of the National Cancer Institute and in 1977/78 its chairman. From 1981 he was Bixby Professor of Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis and Faculty Director.

In 1993 he and colleagues identified the proto- oncogene RET as the cause of MEN types 2A and 2B and developed a corresponding genetic test and the procedure for the prophylactic removal of the thyroid glands in children with the corresponding hereditary factors.

In 1995 he received the Ernst Jung Prize , the Janeway Medal from the American Radium Society , the Medallion of Scientific Achievement from the American Surgical Association, and in 1996 the Joseph H. Burchenal Clinical Research Award from the American Association for Cancer Research . He was President of the American Surgical Association in 1995/96, President of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) in 1993/94, and President of the International Society of Surgery and the American Board of Surgery . In 2008 he was Executive Director of the International Thyroid Oncology Group . From 1996 he was President of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation . From 1984 to 1986, he served on the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Treatment Director . He is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences .

1983 to 1986 he was editor of the World Journal of Surgery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Wells, Samuel A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wells, Samuel Alonzo Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuthbert , Georgia