Background
Cullen, Thomas Stephen was born on November 20, 1868 in Bridgewater, Ontario. Son of Review Thomas and Mary (Greene) Cullen.
Cullen, Thomas Stephen was born on November 20, 1868 in Bridgewater, Ontario. Son of Review Thomas and Mary (Greene) Cullen.
Educated Collegiate Institute, Toronto. Bachelor of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1890, also Doctor of Laws. Honorary Doctor of Science, Temple University Specialist in abdominal surgery.
Formerly professor gynecology, Johns Hopkins University, now professor emeritus.
Visiting gynecologist, Johns Hopkins Hospital Honorary member Louisiana Societa Italiana Ostetricia Ginecologia, Rome. Corresponding member Gesellschaft für Geburtshülfe, Leipzig.
Corresponding member Gynecological Society of München. Honorary fellow Edinburgh Obstetrical Society.
President Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, 1916.
Medical and Chirurgical Eaculty Maryland, 1927. Trustee and president of Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore. Trustee American Medical Association, 1929-1941.
Chairman Chesapeake Bay Authority, Public Works District 10, 1933-1934.
He began studying at Johns Hopkins University the next year, before traveling to Germany and studying at Johannes Orth"s laboratory at the University of Göttingen in 1893. From 1893 to 1896, Cullen was in charge of gynecological pathology at Johns Hopkins, and in 1919 he was named a professor of clinical gynecology. Cullen researched gynecological diseases including uterine cancer and ectopic pregnancy and promoted extensive use of diagrams in biomedical publishing.
Cullen"s sign, a discoloration of the skin about the navel which is regarded as a sign of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, is named for him.
He wrote alone, and in collaboration, four important monographs:
Cancer of the Uterus (1900)
Adenomyoma of the Uterus (1908)
Myomata of the Uterus, with Howard Atwood Kelly (1909)
Diseases of the Umbilicus (1916)
Cullen died at Baltimore, Maryland.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.