William E. Ladd

William Edwards Ladd ( born September 8, 1880 in Milton (Massachusetts ), † April 15, 1967 ) was an American surgeon who is considered a pioneer in pediatric surgery.

Ladd went to school in Boston and graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1902 and the MD. Graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1906 After he was Assistant Visiting Surgeon to various hospitals in Boston - including the Boston Children's Hospital - before he became in 1912 Assistant in Surgery at Harvard Medical School. To a drastic experience was for him the Halifax Explosion of 1917. In other physicians and surgeons from Harvard he erected there an emergency hospital and also treated hundreds of children who have suffered partial severe cuts and burns on her face as she the burning ship explosion before the observed through windows. Ladd decided afterwards pediatric surgery to dedicate. In 1927 he became chief surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital. In 1945, he went into retirement. He was succeeded ( against his will ) Robert E. Gross, who although originally was his protégé and with whom he wrote one of the first textbooks on pediatric surgery, but he handedness could not forgive.

The Ladd syndrome is named after him, an innate volvulus and external obstruction of the small intestine. He developed in the 1930s, a surgical procedure for malrotation ( here are the Ladd procedure and the Ladd bands named after him).

Writings

• Congenital obstruction of the duodenum in Children, New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 206, 1932, pp. 277-280