Allen Whipple

Allen Oldfather Whipple ( born September 2, 1881 in Urmia ( Iran ); † April 6, 1963 in Princeton, New Jersey) was an American surgeon. According to him, the radical pancreaticoduodenectomy, an operation for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, also called " Whipple operation " or " Kausch - Whipple operation " called. Here, the head of the pancreas, the gallbladder, part of the bile duct, duodenum, and sometimes parts of the stomach are removed.

Life

AO Whipple was born in 1881 in the territory of present-day Iran as the son of missionary couple William Levi Whipple and Mary Louise Allen. He spent 14 years of his youth in Persia. After school and college to Whipple enrolled at Princeton University, where he studied until 1904. From there he went to Columbia 's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he earned a doctoral degree in 1908 in medicine. The first years of his clinical training, he spent at Roosevelt Hospital and the Sloan Hospital in New York. In 1910 he began work as a surgeon.

1921 Whipple was appointed professor of surgery at Columbia University in New York and became chief surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital. After his retirement in 1946, Whipple returned to the Middle East and devoted himself to the history of medicine.

• Surgeon
• Physician ( 20th century )
• Americans
• Born in 1881
• Died in 1963
• Man