Orvar Swenson
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American pediatric surgeon
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#584
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#785
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Surgery
#58
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#85
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Pediatrics
#87
World Rank
#101
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Orvar Swenson's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine Harvard University
- PhD Pediatric Surgery Johns Hopkins University
Why Is Orvar Swenson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Orvar Swenson was a Swedish-born American pediatric surgeon. He discovered the cause of Hirschsprung's disease and in 1948, with Alexander Bill, performed the first pull-through operation in a child with megacolon, which then became a treatment for the disease.
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