Warren Henry Cole (24 July 1898 – 25 May 1990) was an American surgeon, a pioneer in the field of adjunctive treatments for surgical cancer patients. With
Evarts Ambrose Graham
Evarts Ambrose Graham (1883–1957) was an American academic, physician, and surgeon.
Early years and military service
Born in Chicago, Illinois to a surgeon, Dr. David Wilson Graham, and Ida Ansbach Barned Graham, Evarts attended college at Prin ...
he co-developed in 1924 the process of visualizing the gall bladder with X-rays by using contrast media, a process used in the diagnosis of gall bladder disease, in 1924.
Born in
Clay Center, Kansas
Clay Center is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 4,199.
History
Clay Center was first settled in 1862. It was named from its position near the geographic ...
in 1898
Warren Henry Cole (www.whonamedit.com)
/ref> Cole received his M.D.
Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin ''Medicinae Doctor'') is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the M.D. denotes a professional degree. T ...
from Washington University School of Medicine
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, and served on the faculty for several years. Cole left Washington University in 1936 to serve as a professor at University of Illinois Chicago
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a position he held for 30 years. He served as president of the American Cancer Society
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from 1959–1960.
References
External links
American Cancer Society speech
Washington University School of Medicine alumni
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
1898 births
1990 deaths
People from Clay Center, Kansas
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