Joe Vincent Meigs

Joseph "Joe" Vincent Meigs ( born October 24, 1892 in Lowell (Massachusetts ), † October 24, 1963 ) was an American gynecologist. According to him, the Meigs syndrome was named, and he advanced the radical hysterectomy according to Wertheim in cervical carcinoma, which is therefore also called Wertheim - Meigs operation.

Meigs comes from an old family from Massachusetts, his father was a general practitioner. He studied at Princeton and Harvard, and found his first job in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital as an assistant to William Phillips Graves. This aroused Meigs ' interest in gynecological surgery.

Between 1932 and 1942 he taught as a surgeon at the medical faculty of Harvard, where he qualified in 1942 as professor of clinical gynecology. In addition to the expansion of gynecological cancer operations, he carried out research in the field of cytology. In 1955 he retired and died on October 24, 1963 ( his 71st birthday ) of a heart attack, he suffered from a lecture during a flight.

Meigs authored more than 150 publications.