Allen B. Kanavel (1874, Sedgwick, Kansas - 1938 Pasadena, California) is an American surgeon who is remembered for portraying the sign of Kanavel. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine University of the Northwest in 1899. He spent six months in Vienna, then spent his career at Cook County Hospital and surgical department at Northwestern University School of Medicine. He became professor of surgery at Northwestern in 1919, and became associate editor and then editor of the Journal of Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics . In 1920 he founded the Department of Neurosurgery at Northwestern University and was appointed Chairman of the Department. He worked with the United States Army during the First World War, both at the Surgeon General's offices in Washington, DC and in France in 1918 as assistant Chief Consultant in the operations of the American Expeditionary Forces. His interest was a hand infection, and the 1912 mongraph on the subject was considered a milestone in hand surgery.
Kanavel died in 1938 in Pasadena, California in a tragic car accident. His adopted son Richard and David were also in the car, but escaped with relatively unharmed. They are on their way to fishing.
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