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| Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D. is widely recognized and respected throughout the scientific, academic and clinical world for his innovative and pioneering research in the development of the specialized central venous feeding technique known as intravenous hyperalimentation (IVH) or total parenteral nutrition (TPN). The basic investigative development and subsequent successful clinical application of this highly effective therapeutic modality has been described as one of the four most significant accomplishments in the history of the development of modern surgery, together with the discovery and development of asepsis and antisepsis, antibiotic therapy and anesthesia. It has also been acknowledged as one of the three most important advancements in surgery during the past century along with open heart surgery and organ transplantation. Born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1935, Dr. Dudrick received his B.S. in Biology with Honors in 1957 from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, graduating Cum Laude. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor fraternity and was awarded the Williamson Medal as the outstanding member of his graduating class. His M.D. degree was conferred by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1961 followed by a rotating internship and residency training in General Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he served as Chief Resident in Surgery under Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads until 1967. After his training, he joined the faculty at Penn and ascended in rank from Instructor to Professor of Surgery at his alma mater within five years. In 1972, he was recruited to Houston as the first Professor and Founding Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the then new University of Texas Medical School at Houston and Chief of Surgical Services at Hermann Hospital/The University Hospital. In 1988, he joined the staff of Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first hospital, in Philadelphia as Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Surgeon to the Hospital, Director of the Residency Training Program in General Surgery and Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. next |
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