San Francisco: Departments
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Surgery
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Surgery
The Toland Medical College opened in 1884.
In 1873, the Regents incorporated the college into the University
and Hugh H. Toland was appointed the first chairman of the Department
of Surgery.
One hundred years ago the surgical curriculum
consisted of lectures on the principles and practices of surgery,
demonstrations of surgical technique on the cadaver, and clinical
lectures at the college building and the city and county hospital.
In 1899, Dr. Thomas W. Huntington of the Department of Surgery performed
the first total gastrectomy for carcinoma. The specimen was kept
in the museum of the department for many years and it is said that
the patient survived for many years without evidence of recurrence.
Dr. Wallace I. Terry assumed the chairmanship
of the Department of Surgery in 1912. The operating room suite in
the Herbert C. Moffitt Hospital was named in his honor.
The modern era of surgical education in the department
dated from the appointment of Dr. Howard C. Naffziger as professor
and chairman in 1929. Under his dynamic leadership the department
quickly became recognized as one of the leading surgical units in
the country. Among the many distinctive contributions from the department
at that time was the development of the "Naffziger operation" for
progressive exophthalmos. For a considerable period of time, this
was the standard procedure for preventing the loss of vision in
this distressing condition.
After Dr. Naffziger's retirement, Dr. H. Glenn
Bell was appointed chairman. During his tenure, the department produced
some of the finest clinical surgeons in the country. A major achievement
in the department was the development of a surgical research laboratory
headed by Drs. Harold A. Harper and Horace J. McCorkle. A number
of distinguished contributions in the field of gastrointestinal
physiology came from this laboratory in the 1940's.
Dr. Leon Goldman was appointed chairman in July,
1956, and during his tenure the stage was set for the present structure
of the department. By the mid-1960's, the department was well known
for its contributions to vascular surgery under the direction of
Dr. Edwin J. Wylie; cardiac surgery under the direction of Dr. Benson
B. Roe; the transplantation of organs under Dr. John S. Najarian;
and experimental and clinical gastrointestinal studies under the
direction of Dr. William Silen.
Dr. J. Englebert Dunphy was appointed chairman
in January, 1964, and during around that time a number of younger
men joined the department. The research activities were broadened
to include studies in wound healing, hyperbaric oxygenation, mechanisms
of membrane transport, and immunological mechanisms in neoplasia.
The development of improved methods of undergraduate education in
surgery was the major interest of the chairman. Meanwhile, the tradition
of graduate teaching and residency training in surgery initiated
by Dr. Naffziger and brought to a high level of fruition by Dr.
Bell continued. source
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