Title:

Michael DeBakey with fellow residents at Heidelberg, Germany

Date:

[1936]

Description:

DeBakey is on the far right.. For the second part of his European medical training, DeBakey went to Heidelberg to work with Martin Kirschner. Kirschner (1879-1942) was a well-known German surgeon who taught in Koenigsberg, Tubingen, and Heidelberg during his career. He performed the first successful pulmonary embolectomy in 1924 and made significant contributions to vascular surgery, plastic surgery, and orthopedic surgery, and to anesthesiology. He published articles on a wide range of surgical topics, contributed to eight surgical textbooks, and edited five medical journals.

Location:

Box: 29

Rights:

Courtesy of Katrin DeBakey.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

FJBBCS

NLM ID:

101743405X34

Profiles Collection:

The Michael E. DeBakey Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X34

Story Section:

From Tulane School of Medicine to the U.S. Army, 1928-1946