May 2025

• Krishay Sridalla, Feinberg School of Medicine: Maloney et al. Surgical amputation of a limb 31,0000 years ago in Borneo. Nature 2022;169:547-551

• Christian Kontaxis, John Maldonado, and Emily Brettingen, Stritch School of Medicine: Roguin. Stent: The man and word behind the coronary metal prosthesis. Circ Cardiovasc Interv; 2011;4:206-209

• Tom Doonan, University of IL College of Medicine: Blakemore and Voorhees. The use of tubes constructed from Vinyon N cloth in bridging arterial defects -- experimental and clinical. Annals of Surgery 1954;140(3):324-333

November 2025

• Christopher Holden-Wingate, University of IL College of Medicine: Brescia et al. Chronic hemodialysis using venipuncture and a surgically created arteriovenous fistula. NEJM; 1966;275(20): 1089-1092 and Alexander, S. Medical miracle and moral burden. They decide who lives, who dies. LIFE magazine 1962; 262 (Jan)

• Isabel Cohen, Feinberg School of Medicine: DeBakey and Simeone. Battle injuries of the arteries in World War II. Annals of Surgery. 1946;123(4): 534-579

• Emily Brettingen, Stritch School of Medicine: Pascarella and Pappas. Phlebitis, Pulmonary Emboli and Presidential Politics: Richard M. Nixon’s Complicated Deep Vein Thrombosis. The American Surgeon. 2013;79(2): 128-134