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Roswell Park
1852–1914
Remembered as a pioneering American surgeon and cancer researcher, he founded the Gratwick Research Laboratory in Buffalo in 1898, a small lab that grew into today’s Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. His career also reached far beyond cancer care, with important work in surgery, medical education, and hospital practice.
3 Audiobooks
The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
by Roswell Park
An Epitome of the History of Medicine
by Roswell Park
The principles and practice of modern surgery
by Roswell Park
About the author
Born in Pomfret, Connecticut, in 1852, Roswell Park trained as a physician at Northwestern University and went on to build a major medical career in Buffalo, New York. He became a professor of surgery at the University of Buffalo and a surgeon at Buffalo General Hospital, earning a reputation as an energetic teacher, writer, and leader in American medicine.
Park is best known for founding the Gratwick Research Laboratory in 1898, recognized as the first institution in the United States devoted specifically to cancer research. That lab eventually developed into the center now called Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which still carries his name.
He is also remembered for broader surgical achievements, including work in neurosurgery and surgical pathology, as well as for writing and editing important medical texts. He died in 1914, but his influence lived on through the institution he created and through his role in shaping modern American surgery.