List of surgeons

Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures

• B. K. Misra - First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.
• Claudius Amyand, performed the first Appendicectomy
• Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation
• William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant
• Eric Mühe, first laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Paul Randall Harrington, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod.
• John Heysham Gibbon, first open heart surgery
• Simon Hullihen, The Father of Oral Surgery
• John Hunter, first aneurysm operation and founder of early schools of anatomy
• Leonard B. Kaban, Walter C. Guralnick Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University, pioneer in oral, maxillofacial and craniofacial surgery
• Richard Lehman, pioneered several orthopedic surgeries
• Paolo Macchiarini, first stem cell grown trachea transplant.
• Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique aka Mohs surgery in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions.
• Dallas B. Phemister, developed the Phemister graft and early innovator in orthopedics
• Theodore H. Schwartz, first center in New York City to use intraoperative MRI scanning during endoscopic pituitary surgery
• Lall Sawh, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.. Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.
• Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.

  Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery

• Moshe Gueron, best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting.
• Victor Chang
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov, creator of radial keratotomy
• Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy
• Gavril Ilizarov, Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones.
• Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery
• Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis
• Norman Bethune, Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.
• John Heysham Gibbon, invented the heart-lung machine.