Dallas B. Phemister

Dallas B. Phemister
Dallas B. Phemister in a University of Chicago photograph
Born
Dallas Burton Phemister

(1882-07-15)July 15, 1882
Carbondale, Illinois, US
DiedDecember 28, 1951(1951-12-28) (aged 69)
Billings Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, US
MonumentsDallas B. Phemister Hall, University of Chicago (demolished in 2000)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRush Medical College (MD)
Occupation(s)Surgeon, researcher
EmployerUniversity of Chicago
Organization(s)American Surgical Association
American College of Surgeons
Annals of Surgery
Orthopaedic Research Society

Dallas Burton Phemister (/ˈfɛmɪstər/; July 15, 1882 – December 28, 1951[1][2]) was an American surgeon and researcher who gave his name to several medical terms. During his career, he was the president of the American Surgical Association and the American College of Surgeons, and was a member of the editorial board of the journal Annals of Surgery.[3]

Career

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Phemister attained his MD from Rush Medical College in 1904, before conducting post-graduate study in Europe.[2]

From its inception in 1920, he was involved with the Codman Registry of Bone Sarcoma, the oldest tumor registry in the United States. After its founder, Ernest Amory Codman, he was its second chair.[4]

He was the first full-time professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago, which he led from 1925 to 1947.[5] Early in his tenure there, he appointed Lester Dragstedt as an associate professor of surgery.[5] In 1927, he invited Charles Brenton Huggins to join the University of Chicago faculty, specializing in urology.[6] He also served as a mentor for orthopedic surgeon Lent C. Johnson.[4] In 1938, William Adams and Phemister carried out a pioneering esophageal resection surgery.[7] That same year, he was elected as the president of the American Surgical Association.[8]

In the 1950s, several musculoskeletal investigators expressed a desire to have a forum for presenting their work and receiving constructive criticism.[9][10] This idea gained unanimous support from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons at their Annual Meeting in 1951.[10] Phemister agreed to take on the role of chairman of the new organization, named the Orthopaedic Research Society, but died unexpectedly at the age of 69 before he could take up the position.[10] He died at the Billings Hospital in Chicago of appendicitis.[2]

Eponyms

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Phemister's name has been given to several medical techniques and signs.[11] Most prominent among these is the Phemister graft, a technique for transplanting bone in cases of bone fractures with delayed union.[12][13] The Phemister triad refers to three features typically seen in tuberculous arthritis: "juxta-articular osteopenia or osteoporosis, peripheral osseous erosions, and gradual narrowing of joint spaces... present in any large joint including the knee, hip, and shoulder."[14]

Dallas B. Phemister Hall, a student residence building at the University of Chicago built in 1958, was named for him.[15] It was demolished in 2000 to make room for the Interdivisional Research Building.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ Townsend, Courtney M.; Beauchamp, R. Daniel; Evers, B. Mark; Mattox, Kenneth L. (2012-02-17). Sabiston Textbook of Surgery E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN 978-1455738083.
  2. ^ a b c "Phemister, Dallas Burton (1882 - 1951)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  3. ^ "DALLAS B. PHEMISTER : Annals of Surgery". LWW. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  4. ^ a b Crowder, Christian; Stout, Sam (2011-09-22). Bone Histology: An Anthropological Perspective. CRC Press. pp. 320–321. ISBN 9781439867020.
  5. ^ a b Sciences, National Academy of; Secretary, Office of the Home (1980-02-01). Biographical Memoirs. National Academies Press. pp. 65–66. ISBN 9780309028882.
  6. ^ For the Greatest Good to the Largest Number: A History of the Medical Center, the University of Chicago, 1927-1977. Vice-President for Public Affairs, University of Chicago. 1977.
  7. ^ Rosenthal, Ronnie Ann; Zenilman, Michael E.; Katlic, Mark R. (2011-07-12). Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781441969996.
  8. ^ "ASA - Past Presidents". www.americansurgical.org. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  9. ^ Brown, Thomas D. (August 2002). "Toward Better Interaction Between Orthopaedists and Researchers". The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 84 (8): 1473–1477. doi:10.2106/00004623-200208000-00026. ISSN 0021-9355. PMC 5044209.
  10. ^ a b c Goldberg, Victor M. (July 1989). "Presidential address for the orthopaedic research society, 1988. "Back to the future"--responsibilities of the society". Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 7 (4): 612–615. doi:10.1002/jor.1100070421. ISSN 0736-0266. PMID 2738775. S2CID 39920032.
  11. ^ Stedman, Thomas Lathrop (2005). Stedman's Medical Eponyms. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 9780781754439.
  12. ^ Santoni-Rugiu, Paolo; Sykes, Philip J. (2007-08-10). A History of Plastic Surgery. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783540462415.
  13. ^ de, Societe International de chirurgie orthopedique et (1961). Huitieme Congres International de chirurgie orthopedique… (in French).
  14. ^ Chattopadhyay, Arghya; Sharma, Aman; Gupta, Kirti; Jain, Sanjay (2018-05-26). "The Phemister triad". The Lancet. 391 (10135): e20. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30986-3. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 29856345. S2CID 46919164.
  15. ^ "Dallas B. Phemister Hall : Photographic Archive : The University of Chicago". photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
  16. ^ "University of Chicago approves $200 million in new buildings and facilities". www-news.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
  17. ^ "HHMI contributes 176 million to new building - UChicago Medicine". www.uchicagomedicine.org. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
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