Gustaf Elmer Lindskog (7 February 1903 – 4 August 2002) was a thoracic surgeon and the William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery and chair of

surgery Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery s ...

at the

Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the medical school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. It is the sixth-oldest m ...

, best known for having participated in the first pharmaceutical treatment of cancer.

Biography

Lindskog was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1903. He received his B.Sc. degree from the

Massachusetts Agricultural College The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the Flagship university, flagship campus of the Univer ...

in 1923 and his M.D. degree from

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...

in 1928, then served for four years as a lieutenant commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Bibliography

*''Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery & Related Pathology'' with Averill Liebow and

William Glenn William Wallace Lumpkin Glenn (August 12, 1914 – March 10, 2003) was an American cardiac surgeon who co-created an early version of an artificial heart and was the developer of a technique for the treatment of congenital heart defects. Gle ...

(1953, 1962, 1975)

References

External links

Gustaf E. Lindskog Papers.
Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University 1903 births 2002 deaths Massachusetts Agricultural College alumni Harvard Medical School alumni Yale School of Medicine faculty {{US-academic-bio-stub