Stanford Medicine is marking 100 years since Emile Holman, MD, became the first academic chair of its department of surgery in 1926.
Over the past century, surgery at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford has expanded into several specialty departments, including cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology and urology. Those departments joined the department of surgery for a centennial event in August, according to a Nov. 5 Stanford Medicine news release.
Stanford’s surgical firsts include the first adult heart transplant in the U.S., performed by Norman Shumway, MD, PhD, in 1968, and the world’s first successful human heart-lung transplant in 1981.
“We’re setting ourselves on a new trajectory based on our incredible foundation,” Mary Hawn, MD, chair of the department of surgery, said in the release.
Stanford Medicine comprises Stanford School of Medicine and the university’s adult and pediatric healthcare delivery systems.
