Aesthetic Surgery
Carl Ferdinand von Graefe, 1787 - 1840.
Founder of modern reparative surgery and often called the father of modern plastic surgery.
Gordon Buck, 1807 - 1877.
Early pioneer of American plastic surgery.
Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 1882 - 1960.
Established plastic surgery in England.
Jerome Pierce Webster, 1888 - 1974.
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons; developed a great plastic surgery library.
Albert D. Davis, 1890 - 1964.
San Francisco plastic surgeon; paid Gillies a fee to receive training.
T.P. Kilner, 1890 - 1964.
First Professor of plastic surgery, Oxford University; trained by Gillies after WWI; developed the cleft palate repair.
Clair Straith, 1891 - 1958.
Leading cosmetic surgeon and great business mind in Detroit.
Gustave Aufricht, 1894 - 1980.
Trained by father of rhinoplasty, Jacques Joseph of Germany; with Safian, introduced his methods to the U.S. in the 1930's; a founding member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.
James Barrett Brown, 1899 - 1971.
St. Louis giant of plastic surgery.
Hector Marino, 1905-
Leading Buenos Aires plastic surgeon.
Louis T. Byars, 1906 - 1969.
One of the Four Horsemen of St. Louis.
Frank McDowell, 1911 - 1992.
Scribe of the famous Four Horseman of St. Louis; editor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
David Weaver Robinson, 1911 - 1992.
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Kansas City.
Ivo Pitanguy, 1926-
Renowned Rio de Janeiro plastic surgeon.
John Hueston, 1926 - 1994.
Leading Australian plastic surgeon.
David Napier Matthews
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Great Ormand St., London.
Jaime Planus
Cosmetic plastic surgeon, Barcelona.
Kenneth A. McNeill
Chief Plastic Surgeon, Kingston, Jamaica.
Khoo-Boo-Chai
Outstanding plastic surgeon, Singapore and Malaysia.
Sir Ivan Magill, 1888 - 1986.
An anesthesiologist who invented the endotracheal tube while with Gillies during his jaw reconstructions.
Thomas Dillon Cronin, 1906 - 1993.
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Baylor University, Texas; developed the breast implant.
Nicholas G. Georgiade, 1918-
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Duke University; craniofacial and breast surgeon.
G. Mirault
19th Century French surgeon known for cheiloplasty.
Ambroise Pare, 1510 - 1590.
With Franco (?1505-1579), one of the first to describe in detail the principles and techniques in the surgical treatment of cleft palate.
Philbert Joseph Roux, 1780 - 1854.
Founder of modern cleft lip and cleft palate surgery.
Pierre Joseph DeSault, 1738? - 1795.
French pioneer of bilateral cleft surgery.
Johann Friederick Dieffenbach, 1792 - 1847.
First successful closure of both hard and soft palate; early references to tenotomy, myotomy, otoplasty, early rhinoplasty, and blepharoplasty.
Joseph Francois Malgaigne, 1806 - 1865
Cleft lip repair.
Auguste Nelaton, 1807 - 1873.
Repair for incomplete cleft lip.
Jonathan Mason Warren, 1811 - 1867.
Probably performed the first cleft palate and reconstructive rhinoplasty in America.
Truman William Brophy, 1848 - 1928
American pioneer in cleft palate surgery.
Robert Abbe, 1851 - 1928.
New York surgeon who first used lip-switch (Abbe) flap in bilateral cleft deformity. Introduced radium into the U.S.
Arthur B. LeMesurier, 1890 - 1982.
Canadian orthopedic and early cleft lip surgeon.
Eric Peet, 1909 - 1981.
Oxford University cleft surgeon.
Ross H. Musgrave, 1921-
Artist; University of Pittsburgh; cleft lip surgery.
Bengt Johansen
Swedish plastic surgeon; hypospadius and cleft surgery.
John M. Converse, 1909 - 1981.
Chief of Plastic Surgery, New York University; craniofacial surgeon.
Nicholas G. Georgiade, 1918-
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Duke University; craniofacial and breast surgeon.
Guillaume Dupuytren, 1778 - 1835.
Described the progressive contracture of the palmer aponeurosis which now bears his name - Dupuytren's Contracture.
Tord Skoog, 1915 - 1977.
Outstanding Swedish plastic surgeon known for Dupuytren's repair; first advocated the SMAS facelift which became a popular technique.
John Netterville Barron, 1911 - 1992.
Chief Plastic Surgeon, Odstock Hospital, England; hand surgery.
Reed Dingman, 1906 - 1985.
Chief of Plastic Surgery, University of Michigan; significant work in the treatment of jaw fractures.
Frank Hasting Hamilton, 1813 - 1886.
Designed and transferred the first cross leg flap.
Werner Hagedorn, 1811 - 1867.
Developed the quadrilateral flap operation for a unilateral hare ( 1884, 1892).
Bernard O'Brien
Famous microvascular surgeon, Melbourne, Australia.
Joseph Pancoast, 1805 - 1882.
One of the first to perform reconstructive rhinoplasty in America.
Jonathan Mason Warren, 1811 - 1867.
Probably performed the first cleft palate and reconstructive rhinoplasty in America.
Robert Fulton Weir, 1838 - 1927.
Important contributions to rhinoplastic surgery, a well known one being his crescent shaped excision from the base of the ala nasi.
Joseph Safian, 1886 - 1983.
Trained by father of rhinoplasty, Jacques Joseph of Germany, and, with Aufricht, introduced his methods to the U.S. in the 1930's.
Gustave Aufricht, 1894 - 1980.
Trained by father of rhinoplasty, Jacques Joseph of Germany; with Safian, introduced his methods to the U.S. in the 1930's; a founding member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.
Bernard Rudolph Conrad Langenbeck, 1810 - 1887.
Described mucoperiosteal formation and characteristics of scars.
Thomas Dent Muetter, 1811 - 1857.
Exhaustive study of scar formation and characteristics of scars.
Uli Karlouich Szymanowski, 1829 - 1868.
Z plasty
Frank Meleney, 1889 - 1963.
Professor of Surgery and Bacteriology, Columbia University; work in "Meleney's Ulcer" and bacitracin.
Erle Peacock, 1926 - 1980
Chief of Plastic Surgery, University of North Carolina and Arizona State University; research in wound healing.
Carl Thiersch, 1822 - 1895.
Early pioneer in free skin grafting.
Leopold Louis Xavier Edouard Ollier, 1829 - 1868.
Early pioneer of free skin grafting.
Beverly Douglas, 1891 - 1975.
Best known for the Beverly Douglas procedure used in the initial management of Pierre Robin Syndrome.
Sir Archibald McIndoe, 1900 - 1960.
Renowned (and knighted) for work on skin grafts in the treatment of burned airmen in WWII; trained by Gillies; helped legitimize aesthetic surgery as a branch of plastic surgery.
Pere Gabard
Postage skin graft on burns.
Galenus, 130 - 200 A.D.
First described suture of tendon.
