Background
Kanavel, Allen Buckner was born on September 2, 1874 in Sedgwick, Kansas, United States. Son of George W. and Mary A. (Paugh) Kanavel.
Kanavel, Allen Buckner was born on September 2, 1874 in Sedgwick, Kansas, United States. Son of George W. and Mary A. (Paugh) Kanavel.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1896, Doctor of Medicine cum laude, 1899, honorary Doctorate.S., 1924. Graduate study in medicine, Vienna, Austria, 1899.
Interne, Cook County Hospital, 1900-1901. Instructor clinical surgery, 1901, assistant professor surgery, 1908-1917, associate professor, 1917-1919, professor surgery, since 1919, Northwestern University Medical School. Attending surgeon Wesley and Passavant hospitals Commissioned major in the Medical Roman Catholic, 1917.
Colonel Medical Corps United States of America, 1918.
Fellow American Surgical Association, American College Surgeons (regent, president, 1931-1932), Western Surgical Association, Society Clinical Surgery.
Married Olive Rosencranz, October 1907. Children: Patricia, David, Richard.