J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;125:1-2
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
J. Gordon Scannell, MD (1914-2002)
Earle Wayne Wilkins, MD
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John Gordon Scannell, the fifty-seventh president of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, died in Westwood, Massachusetts, on August 24, 2002, in his eighty-ninth year.
Son of a Boston surgeon and a mother from Prince Edward Island, Dr Scannell was educated successively at Boston Public Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the Harvard Medical School. There he was awarded the Henry Christian Prize, traditionally given to the fourth-year student with the highest scholastic average.
His entire surgical career was spent, with a single year's exception, at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was accepted as a surgical intern in 1940, rose to the chief residency on the East Surgical Service in 1944-1946, spent a year studying the anatomy of the right upper lobe with Edward A. Boyden in Minneapolis, then joined the surgical staff at the MGH. He ultimately became clinical professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and visiting surgeon at the Massachusetts General . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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