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Dr. Allen O. Whipple was born on September 2, 1881, in Oroomisha, Persia, while his parents were working as missionaries. Dr. Whipple graduated from Princeton in 1904, and attended Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1908. He then completed a 2-year internship at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He went on to become chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian with the rank of professor of surgery in 1921, when he was just 39 years old. He participated actively in the development of surgery as a specialty, introducing the concepts of multidisciplinary teams, prospective collection of data for analysis, and critical assessment of postoperative morbidity and mortality. Whipple made important contributions to the field including a better understanding of neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas, the development of the Whipple procedure, and new insights into portal hypertension. He completed his career at Princeton as a professor of biology and a counselor of students. He died on April 16, 1963, in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Butte, J., Dixon, E. (2015). Allen Oldfather Whipple. In: Pasieka, J., Lee, J. (eds) Surgical Endocrinopathies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13662-2_45
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