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Graduates and former students of Dartmouth Medical School of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.

People in this category should be listed at List of Dartmouth College alumni.

Henry Gassett Davis (November 4, 1807, Trenton, Maine – November 18, 1896, Everett, Massachusetts) was an orthopedic surgeon.

He founded the traction school of orthopedic surgery and created the first splint for traction and protection of the hip joint.

Henry was a later descendent of Dolor Davis of early Cape Cod, Massachusetts. As a boy he intended to be a mechanic and a manufacturer of cotton bagging, similar to his father. But upon visiting his sister, diagnosed with a difficult case of scoliosis, he abandoned his earlier goals to pursue medicine.

In March 1839 he received his M.D. from Yale School of Medicine with clinical training at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He was a practitioner and surgeon in both Worcester and Millbury, Massachusetts for fifteen years. He then settled in New York City where he specialized in orthopedic medicine.

While in Millbury, he grew interested in the treatment of fractures and deformities and advocated the use of continuous traction to correct deformities and relieve joint discomfort. His successful work with weights and pulleys preceded Gurdon Buck’s similar introductions of 1860. His practice bloomed and he soon opened a private hospital at 37th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan primarily for foreign patients.

His beliefs formed the basis for the modern day approaches to such medical conditions as club foot, congenital dislocation of the hip, chronic joint diseases and Poliomyelitis related deformities. He recommended opening and evacuating abscesses and washing them with warm water and chlorine, an early form of the more modern Carrel-Henry Dakin|Dakin method of wound treatment.

His work influenced the future orthopedic practices of Lewis A. Sayre, Charles Fayette Taylor and Edward Hickling Bradford. He was a member of local medical societies of New York City and was an honorarily elected member of the then newly formed American Orthopedic Association in 1895. In addition, he may have once suggested to railroad engineers to elevate the outer rails of curved sections of rail lines.

He was survived upon his death at age 89 by his wife of 40 years, Ellen W. Deering Davis.

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Richard Fogoros received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University (1971), and his doctorate in medicine from Ohio State University (1975). He did postgraduate medical training at the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University, and has received board certification in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and electrophysiology.

Richard Fogoros practised and taught clinical cardiology for 20 years, directing cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and then at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was listed in Best Doctors in America from its inception until he retired from practice. He has authored numerous scientific articles, book chapters, and books. He also directs several internet resources about heart diseases and American healthcare.

Richard N. Fogoros (commonly referred as DrRich) is a former professor of medicine, and a longtime practitioner, researcher and author in the fields of cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. He currently makes his living as a consultant in research and development with biomedical companies, and as a writer.

Both before and after his service in the legislature, he worked at the Atlantic City Medical Center, specializing in emergency medicine. From 1984 to 1989, he became medical director at Resorts International.[1]

On September 27, 1995, the South Jersey Transportation Authority named the bridge connecting the Atlantic City Expressway with local Atlantic City streets in honor of McGahn.[10]

McGann had been a longtime resident of Absecon, New Jersey. He died on December 24, 1999 at Meadowview Nursing Home in Northfield, New Jersey.[1]

McGahn served on the Absecon, New Jersey City Council and as its mayor. He won the Democratic primary for State Senate in 1971 in the district, in which registered Republican Party heavily outnumbered Democrats, and ran for office without the support of the local Democratic Party leadership.[1] On Election Day, November 3, 1971, McGahn defeated incumbent Frank S. Farley, who had served a total of 34 years in the New Jersey Legislature, to win a seat in the New Jersey Senate, in a race in which McGann focused on corruption, in the wake of federal investigation of the Republican Party machine in Atlantic City.[2]

Shortly after taking office, McGahn was the cosponsor of a bill to bring casino gambling to New Jersey.[3] He was described by The New York Times as the “principal architect” of legislation that brought casino gambling to Atlantic City.[1] He also pushed for the creation of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, considered the most rigorous casino enforcement agency at the time.[1]

He ran for office again in 1973, again winning without support of the Democratic establishment.[4] While in the Senate, he served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Energy and the Environment.[1]

In 1974, McGahn pushed for legislation granting exemptions to healthcare institutions from a requirement to provide abortions or sterilizations if they objected on religious or moral grounds. The bill passed the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Brendan Byrne despite his feelings that the legislation “may have gone too far,”[5]

Party leadership at the Democratic convention in 1977 roundly supported Steven P. Perskie, a Democratic member of the New Jersey General Assembly, by a margin of 266 to 77.[6][7] McGahn ran in the general election as an independent, with Perskie beating both McGahn and Republican candidate Frederick Perone.[8] Both McGahn and Perskie had won election to the Legislature in 1971, despite the Republicans 4-1 edge in registration.[7]

In 1981, McGahn ran for and won the Republican primary, and again challenged Perskie in the general election.[7] Perskie won reelection with 29,151 votes, defeating McGahn, who received 28,149.[9]

McGahn was born in Atlantic City. He attended St. Mary’s College of Maryland, graduating summa cum laude in 1939 and was awarded his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1943 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. After graduating from medical school, he served as a general surgeon in the United States Army Medical Corps during World War II.[1]

After returning from military service, he practiced internal medicine and surgery in Atlantic City. Starting in 1951, he began a specialty in obstetrics and gynecology.[1]

Dr. Joseph Leo McGann (c. 1917-December 24, 1999) was an American obstetrician and Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who served for six years in the New Jersey Senate from 1972 to 1978, where he was a key figure in bringing casino gambling to Atlantic City.

Laureate, National Medal of Science
President of the Endocrine Society in 1985.
Member National Academy of Sciences
Member Institute of Medicine,
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.
honorary doctorate Karolinska Institute
honorary doctorate New York University
honorary doctorate National University of Ireland
honorary doctorate University of Maryland