page_title: Tulane University School of Medicine
section_title: Notable alumni and faculty
hierarchical_section_title: Tulane University School of Medicine / Notable alumni and faculty
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Leslie Vaughn Rush, as a student in the College of Medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana from the institution's yearbook, Jambalaya, 1926.
context_page_description: The Tulane University School of Medicine is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States and is a part of Tulane University. The school is located in the Medical District of the New Orleans Central Business District.
context_section_description: James Andrews (physician), M.D., Former house staff, orthopedics (1969–1972), internationally known orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist.  Founder of American Sports Medicine Institute, member of the Sports medicine Committee of the United States Olympic Committee. team physician for a number of professional and collegiate teams.  Surgeon to numerous professional athletes including Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Emmitt Smith, John Smoltz, Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Troy Aikman, Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson, and many others.
  Charles Cassidy (C.C.) Bass, M.D., 1899, pioneer researcher on malaria, hookworm, and dental caries; Dean, Tulane School of Medicine, 1922-40 (Tulane's Golden Years).
  Elizabeth Bass, M.D., 1911, one of the first women faculty at the medical school, three years before women were admitted as students
  Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Military Physician and Academic, noted for his contributions to the link between smoking and cancer.
  Cyril Y. Bowers, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine
  George E. Burch, M.D., 1933, internationally known cardiologist; Editor, American Heart Journal. 1959-1982; Chairman of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Cardiovascular Diseases and Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Army on Environmental Medicine and Physiology involved in successfully sending the first two chimpanzees into space, continuing as a consultant to NASA
  Alston Callahan M.D., 1933, pioneer in the field of reconstructive eye surgery; established the Eye Foundation Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama; instrumental in starting the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and served as first Chairman
  Jay Cavanaugh, Ph.D, 1994, member, California State Board of Pharmacy (1980–90), director, American Alliance for Medical Cannabis, 2001
  Max Dale Cooper, M.D., M, 1957, Former House Staff (Peds), 2019 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (with Jacques Miller) for their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of modern immunology
  Harold Cummins, M.D., anatomist, Emeritus professor of Anatomy
  Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., 1932, pioneer of modern medicine (cardiovascular surgery) and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal
  David John Doukas, M.D., Professor and James A. Knight Chair of Medical Humanities and Ethics in Medicine
  H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., M.D.; Ph.D. Tulane 1972. American philosopher specializing in continental philosophy and medical ethics. Professor of philosophy at Rice University.
  Paul Finger, M.D., 1982, pioneered the use of palladium-103 plaque radiation to treat choroidal melanoma and 3D and high-frequency ultrasound to image intraocular tumors.
  Louis J. Ignarro, faculty (1973–1985), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
  Thomas Naum James, M.D., 1949, director, World Health Organization cardiovascular center
  Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., 1951, director, National Institutes of Health, for whom the Kirschstein NRSA grant program is named
  Rudolph Matas, M.D., 1880, "father of vascular surgery"
  William Larimer Mellon, Jr., M.D., M’53, founder, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Haiti
  Alton Ochsner, faculty, founder of Ochsner Clinic, pioneer anti-smoking advocate, President of the American Cancer Society, President of the American College of Surgeons, President of the  International Society of Surgeons, Chairman of the Section on Surgery for the  American Medical Association, and President of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation; received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Medical Association in 1967; popularized blood typing and blood transfusion in Europe; physician to Argentina's Juan Perón.
  Donald J. Palmisano, M.D., A&S 1960, M 1963, President of the American Medical Association.
  Felix Octave Pavy, M.D. 1904, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for St. Landry Parish from 1932 to 1936.
  Leslie Vaughn Rush, the surgeon who performed first successful bone pinning
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caption: Leslie Vaughn Rush, orthopedic surgeon and inventor of the Rush pin
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