Background
Wangensteen, Owen H. was born on September 21, 1898 in Lake Park, Minnesota, United States. Son of Owen and Hannah (Hanson) Wangensteen.
Wangensteen, Owen H. was born on September 21, 1898 in Lake Park, Minnesota, United States. Son of Owen and Hannah (Hanson) Wangensteen.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Minnesota, 1919, Doctor of Medicine 1922, Doctor of Philosophy in Surgery, 1925. Doctor of Laws, University Buffalo, 1946. Doctor of Science, University Chicago, 1956, Saint Olaf College, 1958, Temple University, 1961, Hamline University, 1963, Marquette University, 1970, U. Athens, 1978.
Doctor honorary, U. Paris (Sorbonne), 1962.
Fellow in medicine University of Minnesota, 1923. Fellow in surgery Mayo Clinic, 1924. Resident surgeon University Hospital, 1925.
Faculty surgery University of Minnesota, 1926-1967, professor emeritus, 1967-1981, Distinguished Service professor, 1960, Regents professor, 1966, director department, 1930-1967.
Assistant professor F. de Quervain’s Surgical Clinic and Physiological Institute Professor Leon Asher, Berne, Switzerland, 1927-1928. Board of directors American Cancer Society.
Member O.S.R.D., 1940-1945. Member commission on research and development United States Public Health Service, 1940-1945, commission on growth, 1947-1949, National Research Council, chairman gastric cancer committee, 1948-1951, member surgery study section, 1949-1953, member heart council, 1953-1957, consultant to surgeon general, 1956, member of council research facility division, 1957-1960.
Chairman surgery study section National Institutes of Health, 1952-1953.
Member planning committee AAMC, 1958. President Minnesota Medical Foundation, 1948-1954.
Fellow in medicine University of Minnesota, 1923. Served as private South.A.T.C., World War I. Fellow Royal College Surgeons England (honorary), Hellenic Surgical Society Athens (honorary), Australian Computer Society (president 1959-1960).
Member of the American Medical Association (Distinguished Service award 1968), American Surgical Association (president 1969). Minnesota Academy Medicine (president 1953), International (president American chapter 1969-1972, vice president, delegate international chapter 1971-1973), Minnesota, Minneapolis, Argentine (honorary), Halsted (president 1957-1959) surgical societies, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society Experimental Pathology, American Association Thoracic Surgery, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Minnesota Pathological Society, French Academy Surgery, Norwegian (honorary), National academic science, Royal College Surgeons Edinburgh (honorary), German Surgical Congress (honorary), Royal College Surgeons Ireland (honorary), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Developed suction siphonage treatment of acute intestinal obstruction.
Married Helen Griffin, January 6, 1923. Married second, Sarah Anne Davidson, September 16, 1954. Children: Mary Helen (Brink), Owen Griffin, Stephen Lightner.