Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Medical Innovators [closed]

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With health and medicine in our minds and in the media daily over the last year, we're looking at Medical Innovators next week, starting with Louis Pasteur, known for his advances in vaccination and pasteurization, in the Connection Finder next week. 

We're searching for profiles of other medical innovators to feature alongside him.

Here are a few of the people we're getting started on:

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eight per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2021 Example Profile Plans post here.

WikiTree profile: Louis Pasteur
closed with the note: Feature has run: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1227393/which-medical-innovator-are-you-most-closely-connected-to
in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (730k points)
closed by Abby Glann
I'll work hard on Joseph Lister, as his bio is a direct copy-and-paste from Wikipedia. *exasperated sigh*
All the names I could think of are already nominated!

I have to say I am disappointed that Sister Kenny was bypassed after being mentioned here.  sad

Here are a few of the people we're getting started on:

Why are you 'getting started' on Joseph Lister? I spent hours rewriting his entire biography and am in the middle of a UPM process for him.  Please don't edit him.
Sorry, Melanie! I promise she won't go unused, though. I think I may schedule something specifically for nurses on one of our upcoming dates, and she'll be the highlight. It was a difficult week to narrow the options.

Ros, she isn't starting anything; she's quoted the post to indicate where I said we were looking at Sister Kenny as an option.
Heh, thanks for that thought, Abby.  

Sister Kenny wasn't just a nurse.  (Not sure I've ever really thought of her as such.)  Florence Nightingale was a nurse — she didn't believe that women should become doctors; that they were only suited to be nurses.  (A number of years ago I attended my adoptive daughter's Nightingale Pinning Ceremony.)   

Sister Kenny was someone way before her time, and without her people such as Alan Alda, and Rosalind Russell's nephew and others would likely never have walked, or not freely, without leg calipers / braces.  (I went to Primary School with a boy who wore those, and was, sadly, mocked by the more athletic boys.)  She was a medical innovator, which was why she so fit the innovator theme.  

(Thanks, too, for the clarification to Ros re Lister.)

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Canadian content: Nobel laureate Sir Frederick Grant Banting MC (1891-1941), co-discoverer of insulin (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Banting-11).

by Richard Hill G2G6 Mach 9 (94.9k points)
selected by Liza Gervais
At 32, Sir Frederick Grant Banting was the youngest Nobel laureate for Medicine.
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Prof Donald Metcalf - discovered colony stimulating factors

Prof Basil Hetzel - identified link between iodine deficiency and brain development

Both connected, have complete bios, images.

by Living Ford G2G6 Pilot (159k points)
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Here are some additional folks that I suggested earlier in the 2021 Example Profiles post. I believe that all of these are connected and have images. These are in alphabetical order: 

  1. Virginia Apgar, 1909-1974,  USA, rapid assessment of newborns health status
  2. Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes, 1924-2006, New Zealand, cardiac bypass surgery
  3. John Heysham Gibbon Jr.,1903-1973, USA, Heart-lung machine. Profile is very minimal; needs expansion.
  4. Julius Jeffreys ,1800-1877, England, respirator to enhance breathing of tuberculosis patients. EDITED: No image yet.
  5. Edward Anthony Jenner (1749 - 1823), England, smallpox vaccine
  6. Ephraim McDowell (1771 - 1830), USA, successful abdominal surgery
  7. William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868), USA, first demonstrated use of anesthesia (but this is controversial)
by Ellen Smith G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
edited by Ellen Smith
Many worthy candidates - but I would definitely put my vote on Edward Jenner, having seen the traces of smallpox outbreaks so many times in the church records, whole cohorts of children being wiped out in the villages.
I have been working on the profile and the relatives of Virginia Apgar.  One interesting discovery is that her step-grandmother, who lived until Virginia was in her 20s, was a physician. Various biographies of Virginia speculate that her interest in medicine was somehow derived from her father and brothers, but I have a hunch that her step-grandmother was her role model!
Julius also helped invent the refrigerator... something very important when it comes to all things medical. Oh, and I've had no luck locating an image of him
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William Harvey.... the first to describe blood circulation; he is connected through parents and has a picture.

And Rene Theophilus Laennec could use some connecting to the tree.

by Rebecca Rose G2G6 Mach 1 (12.6k points)
edited by Rebecca Rose
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Here's Edward Jenner - the 'father of immunology', who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.

Has image, bio, sources, and is connected.

by Ros Haywood G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
As the great grand-daddy of our current worldwide vaccination effort, surely he should be in!

As a contrast I'd love to include  Benjamin Jesty, an ordinary  Dorset farmer  who took the 'common knowledge' that those  who survived cowpox didn't get smallpox.   In 1774, there was an outbreak of smallpox. To the horror of his neigbours, he   innoculated  his wife and sons  with cowpox.  

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/grave-benjamin-jesty Sadly no profile .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jesty

Bit late, Helen - the medical innovators Connection Finder is up already.
Still worth a profile, though, for some future feature, or just so he is memorialised on Wikitree.
Trust me to be even more behind than I thought. I'll have a go at him for the future.
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We have a lot of those in the Netherlands but I will only mention two of them:

Willem Johan Kolff, inventor of the artificial kidney, heart and lung. His profile is connected, has an image and a - Dutch - biography. We could make it a bilingual one

and

Willem Einthoven, inventor of the first working Electrocardiagram (ECG). His profile needs an image and a bit more about his life but he is connected and also project protected.

by Eef van Hout G2G6 Pilot (187k points)
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One I don't see so far is German microbiologist Walther Hesse, who was fairly well-known for his work in developing the agar solution for growing bacteriological cultures which advanced the knowledge of microbiology quite a bit.

HOWEVER, he doesn't currently have a profile. Best I can offer is his Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Hesse

Born 1846 in Lusatia - died 1911, probably in Dresden, Germany. You could also consider his wife, Fanny as well, as they were a husband and wife team who did the research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hesse

Of course, he worked in the laboratory of Robert Koch, who does have a profile. It's pretty basic, but he is also another who fits the challenge.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Koch-2057
by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
Unfortunately, since the Hesse's don't have profiles and Koch is unconnected, it might be challenging to get them ready for the challenge.
Another without a profile. The researcher who received a Nobel for his work to determine the causes of Typhoid. Charles Nicolle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nicolle
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Charles Richard Drewresearched in the field of blood transfusions and developed improved techniques for blood storage. His knowledge was used to develop large-scale blood banks during World War II.

Solomon Fuller (born in Monrovia, Liberia), pioneering physician and psychiatrist, made ground-breaking research on Alzheimer's disease.

by Isabelle Martin G2G6 Pilot (566k points)
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As it happens, there are two challenges which might help here: Quest for Great-Grandparents: Medical Edition and Quest for Great-Grandparents: Medical Edition - Second Opinion.

(Although those two challenges are mostly focused on people who have had something to epidemics and fighting them, rather than medical innovators per se.)

by Greg Slade G2G6 Pilot (678k points)
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Jane C. Wright Jones, pioneer of chemotherapy.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wright-33629
by Mark Burch G2G6 Pilot (218k points)
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by anonymous G2G6 Mach 9 (96.8k points)
Fred's profile is complete, connected, has images.
Thank you
Leandra, that is a wonderful profile.
Thank you, Fiona. It is a privilege to be able to honour such a great and inspirational man.
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Canadian

The first person to mass produce a vaccine in the history of medicine and female

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Farrell-514

public health notable

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hastings-3202

by S Stevenson G2G6 Pilot (249k points)
edited by S Stevenson
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The "inventor" of Ibuprofen https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adams-39517. Has bio, pic, is connected.
by Jelena Eckstädt G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
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How about

1) James Lind who found that citrus fruit prevented scurvy?

Here's his profile: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lind-235

2) How about Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, epidemiologist, inventor fo Polar-Area Diagram to display deaths during Scutari that led to improved health practices and patient care.

Here's her profile:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nightingale-64
by Carol Baldwin G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
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Has Alexander Wood FRSE FRCPE (1817-1884), the inventor of the hypodermic needle, been featured yet?  No vaccinations without his contribution to applied science!

by Shirlea Smith G2G6 Pilot (284k points)

Clickable link for Alexander Wood.

Dr Wood's wife was from an aristocratic Irish line, and his nephew married into a United Empire Loyalist family, so there should be lots of potential connections!

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