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History of Surgery Poster Competition 2023

First Place

Resurrectionists: Grave Robbing And The Genesis Of Legal Access To Cadavers For Medical And Surgical Education In 1870s Iowa

Carine S. Dornbush, MD, and Patrick Mcgonagill, MD FACS

Second Place

Performing Under Intense Pressure: Major Abdominal Surgery In A Pressurized Diving Chamber

Alexandra Tedesco, MD

Other Posters Presented

Transcending Gender And Racial Barriers: Dr. Margaret Jessie Chung, The First Chinese American Woman Surgeon And "Mom" To World War II Servicemen

Kaity H. Tung, MD, Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, FACS, and Weidun Alan. Guo, MD, PhD, FACS

A Successful Research Strategy In Burns: A 34-year Analysis (1964-1998) Of The Contributions Of Basil A. Pruitt Jr.

Leopoldo C. Cancio, MD FACS, and Kaitlin A. Pruskowski, Pharm D, FCCM

Plea Bargaining With Organs: The Legislative History Of Organ Donation In Exchange For Reduced Prison Sentences

Nensi M. Ruzgar, MD, Anusha Jayaram, MD, and Devin E. Eckhoff, MD FACS

Evita's Surgeries: The Role Of American Surgeons And An Example Of Ghost Surgery

Alberto Raul. Ferreres, MD FACS (Hon), Mario A. Dvorkin, MD, Cecilia Lucia Sforza, MD, and Marina Antelo, MD

The Miracle Drug: Gordon Murray And Clinical Discovery Of Heparin

Maria Vashchenko, MS, and Nicholas Booth, MS 

Anastomosing Scientific Progress To Social Justice

Tejas Sathe, MD, Erin Duggan, MD, and Lloyd Evan Ratner, MD FACS

Charles Heber Mcburney And The Forgotten First Transduodenal Sphincterotomy

Sabireen, MBBS, DNB; Prakash K. Patil, DGO, MBBS; Vinay Jathen, MBBS, MS,DrNB, PDF; Monika Jagannath Pohekar, MBBS,DNB; and Viralkumar K. Surani, MBBS,DNB 

Charlotte Blake Brown, MD - Innovation In Cancer Registration In The 1870s

Nora C. Elson, MD, MS; Lauren Yoder, MD; Mary V. Carrier, DO; Katherine Meister, MD, FACS; Kathleen M. Raque, MD, FACS; Anne Kuritzky, MD, FACS; and Barbara A. Wexelman, MD, FACS

Publicly Accessible Resuscitation Tools: Beyond Blowing Smoke

Jennifer Castle, MD; Brittany Erin Levy, MD; and Zachary D. Warriner, MD 

Below-freezing Temperatures In Minnesota Gave Birth To A Technique That Started A New Era In Surgery

Rou Wan, MD; Aida Sarcon, MD; Wenrui Zhao, PHD; and Steven L. Moran, MD

Dr. Georges Burou: Unsung Pioneer Of Gender-affirming Vaginoplasty

Xia Liu, MS

Heretical Origins Of Cardiac Surgery: The Story Of Ludwig Rehn And The Inviolable Heart

Tiffany D. Vaughan, BA 

A History Of Colostomy Surgery

Valerie E. Polcz, MD, MS; Gwendolyn Gillies, MD; Evan Barrios, MD; Helen Ernyey, BA, MS; and Shawn D. Larson, MBChB FACS

Life Over Limb, An Historical Perspective On Humanity's Oldest Surgical Procedure

Daniel Marsden, MD, and George L.D. Angus, MD MPH FACS 

Breaking Barriers And Innovating In Surgery: The Legacy Of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

Charlotte Berry, BA, and Derrick C. Wan, MD FACS

History Of Natural Hair And Sutures: Perspective In Green Surgery

Shrinit Babel, BS, and Suman Baral, MBBS FACS