Michael DeBakey with fellow residents at Heidelberg, Germany Michael DeBakey with fellow residents at Heidelberg, Germany

Publication: Produced: [1936] Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Abstract: 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. Copyright: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101743405X34 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: FJBBCS Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X34 Archival Collection: The Michael E. DeBakey Papers (Profiles in Science)